Every year in SMU Meadows Division of Theatre, three contemporary American plays are presented in rotation over a two-week period. It’s called “The Rep,” and it’s a staple of the student experience in our theatre program.
To tease the shows, Meadows student Marcus Piñon created a two-minute teaser:
The Rep Program
A Bright New Boise by Samuel D. Hunter
Thursday, April 27 at 8 p.m.; Sunday, April 30 at 2 & 7:30 p.m.; Friday, May 5 at 8 p.m.
In this Obie and Drama Desk award-winning play, a disgraced evangelical from northern Idaho takes a job at a Hobby Lobby franchise in Boise in order to reconnect with an estranged son… Read More
Grand Concourse by Heidi Schreck
Friday, April 28 at 8 p.m.; Wednesday, May 3 at 8 p.m.; Saturday, May 6 at 2 & 8 p.m.
How well do we really know each other? How much can we trust? What can we forgive? A modern morality tale set in a Bronx soup kitchen, this intriguing new play.
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot by Stephen Adly Guirgis
Saturday, April 29 at 2 & 8 p.m.; Thursday, May 4 at 8 p.m.; Sunday, May 7 at 2 p.m.
Set in a courtroom in Purgatory, this play by the Pulitzer Prize-winning Guirgis puts Judas’s case to a hilarious, riotous, piercing trial, with witnesses including Pontius Pilate, Mother Teresa and Satan.
