Current Season Overview
Theater Emory’s 2009-10 Season, "Breaking Out & Breaking Forth" promises something for everyone! We'll give you the classics–some with a twist, some traditional. We’ll break forth into new arenas, forge new collaborations, and always keep you guessing!
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MacBeth unfolds –a beloved leader overthrown, a utopian community rocked by bloodshed and greed. The world looks on in shock. But who's watching whom? Hominid is based on the true story captured by Frans de Waal, PhD, in Chimpanzee Politics. Commissioned by and developed with the support of the Playwriting Center of Theater Emory, and sponsored in part by a grant from the Emory College Center for Creativity & Arts through commission funding from Creativity: Arts & Innovation at Emory University. This production is co-sponsored by Emory's Program in Science and Society and Yerkes National Primate Research Center.
A Puppet Play based on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, adapted and directed by Jon Ludwig of Atlanta's Center for Puppetry Arts. This version of this well-known tale of Frankenstein's monster is set in a surreal, musical world of voodoo ritual where horror and humor dance together to the beat of a percussion-based ensemble.
Book and Lyrics by OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN
Based on the play "Green Grow the Lilacs" by Lynn Riggs
Original Dances by Agnes de Mille
Rodgers & Hammerstein's first, and perhaps most innovative, musical collaboration is set just after the turn of the century, where the high-spirited rivalry between the local farmers and cowboys provides the colorful background against which Curly, a handsome cowboy, and Laurey, a winsome farm girl, play out their love story.
