Find event information for the plays and other performances put on at Harper Joy Theatre this season, accessing the plays through Penrose's collections, and other materials related to the plays.
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October 24-27 |
Rhinoceros, by Eugene Ionesco, is a remarkable example of mid 20th Century Theater of the Absurd. Watch as one man experiences the difficulties of maintaining himself as those in his small town succumb to a wild transformation. This allegory explores the all too relevant topics of mob mentality, social conforming, and totalitarianism. The play critiques the ideologies that ravaged Europe and led to world wide war in the last century.
Rhinoceros and Other Plays by 
Rhinoceros
Present Past, Past Present by 
Ionesco's Imperatives by 
The Theatre of Imagining by 
The Cambridge Introduction to Theatre and Literature of the Absurd by 
World Scenography 1975-1990 by  |
September 26-29 |
Passionate and funny, Maz and Bricks will touch your heart as our talented senior performers portray two young people in Dublin who become unlikely friends throughout the course of a day. Maz is out to attend a 'Repeal the 8th' demonstration for Irish abortion rights, while Bricks is on his way to meet with the mother of his young child. As they interact they change each other in unexpected ways. Maz and Bricks has been described as powerful, timely, and unmissable, you do not want to miss our opening season show!
The Friday Night EffectOvershadowedMany of the titles below are on display for check-out
Irish Feminisms
Look! It's a Woman Writer!: Irish literary feminisms, 1970-2020
Telling It Our Way
Understanding Contemporary Irish Fiction and Drama
Unmanageable Revolutionaries: women and Irish nationalism, 1880-1980
Women and Embodied Mythmaking in Irish Theatre© 2014 Whitman College Penrose Library |
