Welcome to the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh campus, season of Theatre! The shows we have in store for you are notorious crowd pleasers and will provide amazing opportunities for our talented theatre students to showcase their education and training! We have two phenomenal productions in store for you! Bring your friends and family to enjoy Dracula by Steven Dietz– being appropriately produced in the frightful month of October and then, Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare in the spring. This story is a wonderful sample of his hilarious explorations of the many aspects of love and mistaken identity!
If you have been an ongoing supporter of our Theatre Department, you will recognize that we are producing two expansive productions and not four productions this season. Like all of the UW System schools, UWO is suffering from budget issues and this means diminished financial support for the department. Our theme, Against All Odds, is a celebration of the UWO Theatre to come through tough times in spite of everything – including a pandemic!
If at all possible, we ask that you include a donation with your ticket purchase. If you haven’t donated to the Theatre Department, this is the year to do it. If you have donated, please give more than your usual generous amount. Or just buy a bunch of tickets and make it a party!
Either way, we look forward to seeing you in the theatre!
Professor Jane Purse-Wiedenhoeft
Theatre Department Chair
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Based on the novel by Mark Haddon; Adapted by Simon Stephens
Directed by Jane Purse-Wiedenhoeft
October 24, 25, and 26 at 7:30 p.m.
Matinee on October 27 at 2:00 p.m.
Theatre Arts Center
A 15-year-old has an extraordinary brain, is exceptional at mathematics but ill-equipped to interpret and interact with appropriate social skills in everyday life. This person has never ventured alone beyond the end of the neighborhood road, is extremely uncomfortable being touched, and distrusts strangers. It is 7 minutes after midnight, and our teen stands beside a neighbor’s dead dog, Wellington, who has been speared with a garden fork! Our main character is determined to solve the mystery of who murdered Wellington, and carefully records each fact of the crime in a journal. This detective work takes this challenged teen and the audience on a thrilling journey that turns the world upside down. The play leaves audiences asking, what is a “normal” person and how are people treated if they are perceived as NOT being “normal?”
Winner of the 2013 Olivier Award for Best New Play.
“This adaptation by the acclaimed playwright Simon Stephens is intensely, innately theatrical; it is also funny and extremely moving…resonates with quality.” —The Telegraph (UK).
“…just terrific…a profoundly moving play about adolescence, fractured families, mathematics, colors and lights…dazzling.” —Independent (UK).