theatre

Thursday, March 23, 2017 3:30 pm - 3:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Gendered Violence on Campus: Institutional Policy and Practice

This panel is hosted in collaboration with the UWaterloo Equity Office, and the Special Adviser to the President—Women’s and Gender Issues.

Friday, March 17, 2017 8:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00) Saturday, March 18, 2017 8:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Unconscious Curriculum: Rape Culture on Campus

Unconscious Curriculum: Rape Culture on Campus

Thursday, November 17, 2016 12:00 pm - 12:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Eurydice Matinees

The Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice is a sad tale of lost love and the power of music. After his love Eurydice is killed by snakebite, a grief-stricken Orpheus journeys to the land of the dead in an attempt to bring her back.

Monday, October 17, 2016 11:30 am - 1:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Silversides Lecture Series presents Monique Mojica

The Silversides Theatre Artists Series 2016 presents Canadian actor and playwright Monique Mojica in a talk, "Inscripted Earth: embodiment of place as research, process and performance."

Monique Mojica will describe her evolving process of creating an Indigenous dramaturgy rooted in land-based embodied research. This presentation looks specifically at work begun in 2011 (along with a collaborative team of Indigenous artists) and focuses on effigy mounds and earthworks as the first literary structures on this land. 

Thursday, November 17, 2016 8:00 pm - 8:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00) Friday, November 18, 2016 8:00 pm - 8:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00) Saturday, November 19, 2016 8:00 pm - 8:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Eurydice

The Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice is a sad tale of lost love and the power of music. After his love Eurydice is killed by snakebite, a grief-stricken Orpheus journeys to the land of the dead in an attempt to bring her back.

Thursday, March 17, 2016 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00) Friday, March 18, 2016 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00) Saturday, March 19, 2016 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

UpStart 2016: Festival of Innovative Theatre

The 2016 UpStart Festival is the latest edition in the University of Waterloo’s bi-annual one-act play festival, and features three new scripts written, developed, directed and designed by Theatre and Performance students working under faculty supervision.

Thursday, November 19, 2015 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00) Friday, November 20, 2015 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00) Saturday, November 21, 2015 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Unity (1918)

  • Written by Kevin Kerr
  • Directed by Andy Houston
  • Set & Props designed by Madeline Samms
  • Costumes designed by Mark Haasnoot
  • Lighting designed by Arun Srinivasan
  • Sound designed by Colin Labadie
  • ​Music composed by Megh
Saturday, June 20, 2015 8:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Henry the Sixth Part I

Rarely performed and little known, the first play in Shakespeare’s first tetralogy is more than a simple preface to the more famous, substantive pieces that follow it.  Hugely popular in its day and featuring memorable characters – brave Talbot, Joan of Arc – deemed worthy of mention in accounts by Shakespeare’s contemporaries, Henry the Sixth, Part I