2022-2023 Theatre and Film Season
The 2022-2023 UToledo Department of Theatre and Film Season was an amazing year featuring the productions of Shakespeare's HAMLET and Dominique Morisseau's BLOOD AT THE ROOT. The department also featured the work of its film and theatre students in the annual FESTIVAL OF NEW STUDENT WORK.
BLOOD AT THE ROOT
By Dominique Morisseau
Directed by Carlos Washington, UToledo Theatre and Film alumnus
Performance dates: Apr. 13-23, 2023. Thursday, Friday and Saturday shows are at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday shows are at 2 p.m.
This show incorporates hip-hop-inspired music, dance and protest! And YOU are encouraged to be an active participant. Learn more about UToledo's exciting, innovative production of Dominique Morisseau's "Blood at the Root." Watch Carlos Washington's video telling why you need to see - and be part of - this play!
Cast members of the UToledo production of "Blood at the Root" share their experiences and takes on the importance of this unique play performance.
UToledo presents Dominique Morisseau’s striking play “Blood at the Root,” Apr. 13-23. Inspired by the incarceration of the Jena 6 and subsequent protests, this production incorporates music and dance in an examination of institutionalized racism at a typical American high school.
FESTIVAL OF NEW STUDENT WORK
Performance dates: Feb. 9-12, 2023. Thursday, Friday and Saturday shows are at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday shows are at 2 p.m.
World AIDS Day Film Screening - "Black Is, Black Ain't"
Remembering Marlon Riggs
Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022 at 7:30 p.m.
HAMLET
By William Shakespeare
Adaptation by Matt Foss
This highly theatrical and innovative 90-minute adaptation aims to be an exciting entry point for those seeing Shakespeare for the first time and a fresh examination of the classic play for long time fans of the play.
“Shakespeare’s plays always relied on the audience’s imagination and though the setting of the play may be a castle in Denmark in the story, the play is full of famous speeches that make clear the setting is also in this room, in this moment, all together,” shares director and adapter Dr. Matt Foss. “His plays were full of juxtapositions and anachronisms, like clocks in “Julius Caesar” and togas on top of those famous pumpkin pants. As comfortable as he and his contemporaries were blending these old stories with their very immediate present, we are trying to do the same with a rigorous approach and examination of the verse with modern music and clothes.”
Performance dates: Nov. 10 - 20, 2022. Thursday, Friday and Saturday shows are at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday shows are at 2 p.m.