Theater, Dance, & Opera

“Playfest 2013”: U-M Theatre Department.

Mar. 18-23. A series of rehearsed staged readings of plays by student playwrights.

Mar. 18: Declan Sheahan's Gap Yah, a comedy about 4 British students leaving behind their troubled home lives to travel to India, where one of the group’s love for tiddlywinks sparks an adventure that re-defines their relationships with themselves, each other, and beyond. U-M Basement Arts is producing this play Mar. 28-30 (see listings).

Mar. 19: Milena Westarb’s The Loving Demise of Lord Blackwell and His Wife, a murder mystery farce about a widow determined to get her hands on the fortune of her late husband’s nephew.

Mar. 20: Teagan Rose’s Sacrificium, , a fantasy about a nightclub owner who has managed to live for more than a thousand years by taking breaths of life from patrons of his club when he meets a woman addicted to drugs, fantasies, and passion who makes him realize there may be more to life than survival.

Mar. 21: Allison Brown’s Betty.

Mar. 22: Jacob Levi Stroud’s Intimate Objects, a drama set in 2025 in a high-tech saturated world where people are inordinately attached to virtual reality. The action follows 3 technology addicts in a woodsy rehab center where they try to deprogram their minds.

Mar. 23: Elana Gantman’s Small Talk.
7 p.m., Walgreen Drama Center Studio One, 1226 Murfin. Free. 764-5350. [map]

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