Department of Drama

Department of Drama 2008/2009 Season Event Listings

All U of C Alumni are eligible to receive 2-for-1 tickets for single event purchases made at the door to the following Department of Drama events for the 2008-09 season (excluding the gala opening of Hamlet on Feb 17, 2009). Prices below do not reflect the Alumni Offer, and the 2-for-1 promotion is not valid on season subscriptions or purchases made a the Campus Ticket Centre:

Don Juan in Chicago by David Ives

October 21 - November 1, 2008, 7:30 pm
Except October 27 & 28, 2 for 1 Sunday Matinee, October 26, 2pm
University Theatre
Single Tickets: $15 Adults, $10 Students/Seniors
Tickets are available through Campus Ticket Centre (403) 220-7202 or at the door.
Call (403) 210-7576 or click here for more information.

Don Juan, a sexually naïve sixteenth-century Spanish nobleman makes a deal with the devil to live forever. There’s a catch: he must have sex with a different woman everyday - no repeats!  His true love, Dona Elvira, makes a similar deal with Mephistopheles except she must sleep with Don Juan a second time.  Leap ahead four hundred years to a poorly decorated apartment in Chicago and comedy ensues. 

Hello…Hello (A Romantic Satire) by Karen Hines

November 25 - December 6, 2008, 7:30 pm
Except December 1 & 2, 2 for 1 Sunday Matinee, November 30, 2pm
Reeve Theatre
Single Tickets: $15 Adults, $10 Students/Seniors
Tickets are available through Campus Ticket Centre (403) 220-7202 or at the door.
Call (403) 210-7576 or click here for more information.

In the dark, urban labyrinths of Hello...Hello, economics is the new religion and art has finally melded with commerce. Here, the latest fashion craze is a tiny glass ball filled with poison which hangs from the necks of every accountant, CEO, and telemarketer.  Lost amidst the towering glass, stylish cafés, and monumental billboards, a girl meets a boy and falls in love.  But the sky is falling too...  From Karen Hines (creator of Pochsy, director of Mump and Smoot) comes a beautifully tragic comedy set in a drop of poison.

Hamlet

February 17 - 28, 2009, 7:30 pm
Except February 23 & 24 - 2 for 1 Sunday Matinee, February 22, 2pm
Student Matinees:  February 18 & 20, 11:30 am
University Theatre
Single Tickets: $15 Adults, $10 Students/Seniors
Call (403) 210-7576 or click here for more information.

Nothing is as it seems. Your father is dead. Your mother, your lover and your friends have betrayed you. Who can you trust when you cannot trust yourself? Your home, your country, the very earth you stand on, are as insubstantial as a fog that drifts in from the sea. Join us for the journey. Descend with us into madness. Search with us for a reconciliation that can never happen and find a Hamlet we all know, but could never have imagined.

Taking Flight: 5th Anniversary of Student Work

March 31 - April 11 , 2009 - 7:30PM
Except April 6
Reeve Theatre
Festival Pass: $15, Single Tickets: $5
Call (403) 210-7576 or click here for more information.

This year will mark the fifth anniversary of the Department of Drama’s annual festival of student work. This exciting festival has grown each year to become a unique showcase of theatre in Calgary.

With selections extending from staged readings by graduate level playwrights to performance creation and improvisation, to complete one act plays by some of the world’s most respected playwrights, Taking Flight is more than just an opportunity for the public to see the cumulative work of many Drama classes, it is a chance to celebrate Calgary’s future performers, designers and technicians as they ‘take flight’.