Location: Bruce Davis Theater, Montgomery Hall Fine Arts Center
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Date: 4/27/2024
Start Time: 8:00 PM
End Time: 10:00 PM (02:00 Duration)
Posted By: Donna Jordan
In this 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama finalist, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (author of An Octoroon, Appropriate—currently running on Broadway and The Comeuppance) re-imagines the 15th-century morality play Everyman. In this contemporary adaptation, the character of Everybody is summoned by Death and must take a journey at the end of which God expects to see a presentation on how they have lived. The main character is chosen by lottery at the beginning of the play from an ensemble of Somebodies. If you attend the show more than once, the title character could be played by a different member of the cast every night! All of the other Somebodies, similarly assigned their roles at random, have to decide whether or not they'll accompany Everybody on this road of reflection, exploring the meaning of life and morality along the way. Who will be Everybody's companion on this most profound—and hilarious- journey? Friendship? Family? Stuff? Strength? Beauty? Love? This show invites the audience to think about their own life, the choices they have made, who will be with them at the end, and what a presentation of one's life might include. This randomness of the lottery not only highlights the talents of the cast but also the fact that any one of us could be Everybody and that we are all traveling a similiar road.
2024-04-27T20:002024-04-27T22:00America/New_YorkEverybody—Theater Production at St Mary's CollegeIn this 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama finalist, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (author of An Octoroon, Appropriate—currently running on Broadway and The Comeuppance) re-imagines the 15th-century morality play Everyman. In this contemporary adaptation, the character of Everybody is summoned by Death and must take a journey at the end of which God expects to see a presentation on how they have lived. The main character is chosen by lottery at the beginning of the play from an ensemble of Somebodies. If you attend the show more than once, the title character could be played by a different member of the cast every night! All of the other Somebodies, similarly assigned their roles at random, have to decide whether or not they'll accompany Everybody on this road of reflection, exploring the meaning of life and morality along the way. Who will be Everybody's companion on this most profound—and hilarious- journey? Friendship? Family? Stuff? Strength? Beauty? Love? This show invites the audience to think about their own life, the choices they have made, who will be with them at the end, and what a presentation of one's life might include. This randomness of the lottery not only highlights the talents of the cast but also the fact that any one of us could be Everybody and that we are all traveling a similiar road.
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