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What's In The Pipeline?!
The 2023-2024 Season will take you on a journey through the subterranean and the subconscious-- featuring landscapes both dreamy and dreary and stories that explore characters often hidden beneath the surface of life. Join us!
CINEMA 7x7
The 4th Annual 49 Hour Film Festival
A TheatreXpress Student Production
September 15-17 Production Weekend • Showcase September 29th
Modeled after the international 48 Hour Film Project, which hosts events all around the globe, the students of TheatreXpress are proud to produce their own version—complete with one extra hour for good measure. Participation is open to all TLU community members and their network of family and friends. Beginning on a Friday evening, entrants will receive the basic parameters of the competition. You draw a genre from a hat. You’re assigned a required character, line of dialogue, and prop. The rest is up to you, as you make a movie in one intense weekend. Completed films are due just 49 hours later and will be featured on October 8th.
Viewer discretion advised: may contain mature subject matter.
Viewer discretion advised: may contain mature subject matter.
EURYDICE
by Sarah Ruhl
Oct. 27, 28, Nov. 3 & 4 @ 7:30 PM
Oct. 29 & Nov. 3 @ 2:30 PM
The Studio Theatre
In EURYDICE, Sarah Ruhl reimagines the classic myth of Orpheus and Eurydice through the eyes of the heroine. Dying too young on her wedding day, Eurydice must journey to the underworld, where she reunites with her father and struggles to remember her lost love. With contemporary characters, ingenious plot twists, and breathtaking visual effects, the play is a fresh look at a timeless love story. “...Watching it, we enter a singular, surreal world, as lush and limpid as a dream—an anxiety dream of love and loss—where both author and audience swim in the magical, sometimes menacing, and always thrilling flow of the unconscious... Ruhl’s theatrical voice is reticent and daring, accurate and outlandish.” —The New Yorker
Viewer discretion advised: contains mature subject matter.
Viewer discretion advised: contains mature subject matter.
A PHOENIX TOO FREQUENT
by Christopher Fry
A TheatreXpress Student Production
Nov. 17 & 18 @ 7:30 PM
Nov. 19 @ 2:30 PM
The Studio Theatre
This one-act comedy is a charming update of the classic Roman tale, “The Widow of Ephesus” by one of England’s best playwrights of the 20th Century. Fry refreshes the story of a pious widow—accompanied by her maid—who mourns for the death of her recently deceased husband and plans to join him in the underworld. The maid is not quite so pious (and the voice of comic relief), yet both women begin to suffer the pangs of self-imposed hunger as they mourn in the tomb where the husband’s body lies. Not until a handsome guard appears does the widow begin to question her plans to withdraw from the world. What follows is at turns comic, sentimental, and romantic—complete with an unexpected ending that is sure to surprise! Join the students of TheatreXpress as they continue our exploration of subjects found in our production of EURYDICE.
W;t
by Margaret Edson
A TheatreXpress Student production
Feb. 2 & 3 @ 7:30 PM
Feb. 3 & 4 @ 2:30 PM
The Texas Theatre • Seguin, TX
Vivian Bearing, Ph.D., a renowned professor of English who has spent years studying and teaching the brilliant and difficult metaphysical sonnets of John Donne, has been diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer. Her approach to the study of Donne: aggressively probing, intensely rational. But during her illness—and her stint as a prize patient in an experimental chemotherapy program at a major teaching hospital—Vivian comes to reassess her life and her work with a profundity and humor that are transformative both for her and the audience. Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. “[A] brutally human and beautifully layered new play...you feel both enlightened and, in a strange way, enormously comforted.” —The New York Times. “A dazzling and humane new play that you will remember till your dying day.” —New York Magazine.
W;t is produced in a collaborative community partnership with The Stephen and Mary Birch Texas Theatre, with performances at the historic venue located at 425 N. Austin Street in Seguin.
Viewer discretion advised: contains mature subject matter.
W;t is produced in a collaborative community partnership with The Stephen and Mary Birch Texas Theatre, with performances at the historic venue located at 425 N. Austin Street in Seguin.
Viewer discretion advised: contains mature subject matter.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
An original piece, created in support of the 2023 Krost Symposium
Feb. 23, 24, Mar. 1 & 2 @ 7:30 PM
Feb. 25 & Mar. 1 @ 2:30 PM
The Studio Theatre
Food insecurity is a national crisis for many, including college students. This original piece will explore the topic, combining live action and media. FOOD FOR THOUGHT will showcase personal narratives of those who have suffered (or continue to suffer) from a chronic lack of access to food and the resulting barriers to living a healthy and productive life. The production will reinforce the themes of the 2023 Krost Symposium, entitled “Everything’s Bigger in Texas—Even Hunger.” Attendees of the Krost Symposium (October 18 & 19) will have the opportunity to share their stories of food insecurity through written text or recorded testimonials. Those unable to attend will be given access to do so through a submission process. The students and artists of TLU Dramatic Media will curate these narratives, giving voice to those willing to share their story. The performance will provide the audience with food for thought, while pointing towards the need for action.
Viewer discretion advised: may contain mature subject matter and language.
Viewer discretion advised: may contain mature subject matter and language.
THIS PROPERTY IS CONDEMNED & Other Short Plays
by Tennessee Williams
A TheatreXpress Student production
Apr. 19 & 20 @ 7:30 PM
Apr. 21 @ 2:30 PM
The Studio Theatre
Written by Tennessee Williams, one of America’s best dramatists, this collection of short plays includes some of his finest work. Though famous for standards like THE GLASS MENAGERIE, CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF, and A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, Williams is a brilliant writer of shorter stories, revealing pathos and insight into human nature in a way that few other writers have achieved. The event will feature several of his one-act plays, all set in the American south of the mid 20th century. Each includes compelling and memorable characters who represent life as it is—often despairing and derelict— while desperately fighting for life as it ought to be.
Viewer discretion advised: contains mature subject matter.
Viewer discretion advised: contains mature subject matter.
XPRESSFEST.24
A TheatreXpress Student Production
Admission is free to all events. No tickets required.
Apr. 19-21 & Apr. 26-28, Times TBA
The CAST and The Studio Theatre
*The CAST is located at 1005 W. Court Street.
The 24th annual XpressFest showcases student plays, movies, and class projects. Join the student artists of TheatreXpress for this culmination of their annual work, including senior capstone projects.
Viewer discretion advised: may contain mature subject matter and language.
Viewer discretion advised: may contain mature subject matter and language.
All dates, times, and content are subject to change.
