USF Theatre & Dance Announce 2011-2012 Season

USF announces their upcoming season with a theme of Science, Art, and Culture: An Eternal Braid. The season is a yearlong, campus-wide initiative to encourage exploration of the various ways that the sciences and arts overlap and intersect in the creation, preservation, and dissemination of culture. Coordinating a wide range of activities (courses, workshops, lectures, performances, exhibits), the initiative will contribute to USF's intellectual atmosphere for students, faculty, staff, and the community. The School of Theatre & Dance will participate in this effort by devoting half its season offerings to plays focusing on the intersection of science and society.

Fall 2011
Life of Galileo
by Bertolt Brecht
Sep. 29-Oct. 1 and Oct. 5-8 at 8:00 pm
Oct. 2 and Oct. 9 at 3:00 pm
in USF Theatre 2

Tackling the conflict between dogmatism and scientific evidence, one of Brecht's most powerful and accessible plays concerns the latter period of the life of Galileo Galilei, the great Italian Renaissance natural philosopher, who was persecuted by the Roman Catholic Church for the propagation of his scientific discoveries.

Fall Dance Concert
Oct. 28-29 and Nov. 3-5 at 8:00 pm
Oct. 30 at 3:00 pm
in USF Theatre 1

New Ballet faculty member Andrew Carroll and veteran Modern dance professor Jeanne Travers will contribute new choreographies, as will Fulbright Scholar Michael Foley . Guest artist Jennifer Archibald will return to USF to share her new work as well!

Proof
by David Auburn
Nov. 9,10, 12, and 16-19 at 8:00 pm
Nov. 13 and 20 at 3:00 pm
in USF Theatre 2

In this play depicting the uncertainties of trust, integrity, and genius, a woman claims authorship of an extraordinary mathematical proof found among her late father's papers. Proof won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play in 2001.

Spring 2012

Spring Dance Concert
Feb. 17-18 and 23-25 at 8:00 pm
Feb. 19 at 3:00 pm
in USF Theatre 1

The faculty of the USF School of Theatre & Dance will set original choreographies on their outstanding students.

BRIT (British International Theatre)
Feb. 23-25 and Feb. 29-Mar. 3 at 8:00 pm
Feb. 26 and Mar. 4 at 3:00 pm
in USF Theatre 2

Program Filter Theatre brings together actors, musicians, technicians, designers, writers and directors to create both new works of original theatre and thrilling incarnations of existing texts; an on-stage fusion of live and recorded music and sound, stylised movement and video images. Filter will create an original work with School of Theatre & Dance students,

R.U.R.
by Karel ?apek (or a contemporary revision/adaptation of ?apek's play)
Apr. 4-6 and 11-14 at 8:00 pm
Apr. 7 and 15 at 3:00 pm
in USF Theatre 2.

"Robots of the world! The power of man has fallen! A new world has arisen: the Rule of the Robots! March!" Virtually every etymology of the word "robot" mentions Rossum's Universal Robots: written in 1920, premiered in Prague early in 1921, performed in New York in 1922, and published in English translation in 1923.

Tickets:
Advance Sales: $12 general ($8 students & seniors)
Day of Performance: $15 general ($10 students & seniors)

Purchase tickets through the College of The Arts Box Office at
(813) 974-2323 or online at boxoffice.arts.usf.edu

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