Current Department of Theatre Arts Season
2019 SEASON
Tickets available a month before opening at BookPeople of Moscow or call Theatre Arts at 208-885-6465 to reserve your ticket. Performances are free for U of I students. $5-$15 for public. Matinees are "pay what you can."
The Three Keys of Captain Hellfire | By Ariana Burns | Shanties by Shandeen
- 7:30 p.m., April 19, 20, 25, 26, 27
- 2 p.m. April 20 & 27 (pay what you can!)
- Hartung Theater, 625 Stadium Drive, Moscow
- Tickets available now!
Wilhelmina Dowdy has a secret. Seven years ago she was Captain Hellfire of the pirate ship, the Early Revenge. A sudden tempest shipwrecked her and her crew, along with their stolen loot. Dowdy protected the treasure and waited. Now her crew returns, older, but not much wiser to finally divvy up the booty. A comedy for the whole family written by U of I alumna, Ariana Burns, with original shanties by Shandeen, a Portland, Oregon musician, singer, songwriter.
On the Way to the Sawmill (A Hikikomiri's Space) | By Marco Magoa
- 7:30 p.m. May 3 & 4
- Hartung Theater, 625 Stadium Drive, Moscow
- Free admission. Tickets at the door an hour before curtain and at BookPeople beginning on April 1.
A raw and emotional dramatization of adolescent alienation. Contains graphic language and themes of suicide, sex and violence. Not for children.
Marco Magoa is an international playwright, actor and director who has worked extensively abroad. Marco studied drama for five years at the Instituto del Teatro y las Artes Escenicas de Asturia. He has performed with several Spanish theatre companies including Compania Lirica Nacional and Compania Lope de Vega, and directed over two dozen plays in Spanish, English, Portuguese and Arabic around the world with performances in Cairo, London and New York. In 2017 at the University of Idaho, he performed Mare Nostrum, Finis Somnia Vesra, his one-man show about a Syrian refugee who takes to the sea to escape war, persecution and death.
"On the Way to the Sawmill" is sponsored by Theatre Arts and Modern Languages and Culture.