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Performance Type: Play

Cyrano de Bergerac

A daring reimagining of a classic that celebrates the power of language and literature, showcasing how the Wirtz Center fuses tradition and innovation to shape tomorrow’s storytellers.

Our Dear Dead Drug Lord

A ferocious, darkly playful collaboration where emerging artists push form and fear, using myth, humor, and horror, to expose the rites of girlhood and the damage beneath cultural obsession.

Taming of the Shrew

A bold reinterpretation that questions power, identity, and performance, reflecting the Wirtz Center’s commitment to reexamining inherited stories through fearless creative lenses.

Vladimir

A powerful collaboration that explores migration, generational rupture, and the cost of survival, affirming the Wirtz Center as a space where emerging artists confront global stories with urgency and depth.

Execution of Justice

A powerful exploration of justice, community, and truth embodying the Wirtz Center’s commitment to performance as a lens for understanding the world.

Slutbot

Developed through the Wirtz Center’s commitment to new work, SLUTBOT explores identity, self-understanding, and authorship at the intersection of technology and performance.

Feeding Beatrice

A daring collaboration that confronts haunting questions of race, power, and belonging and showcasing the Wirtz Center as a laboratory for fearless storytelling and necessary artistic voices.

2021

An interactive performance where story, video games, and AI collide, questioning the ethics of digital resurrection and the weight of loss: If we could bring back the dead, even as data, should we?

73 Seconds

Simple technology transports us to outer space, where we take a look at our not-so-simple relationship with time and truth. 73 Seconds refers to the length of the Challenger’s failed and tragic space flight.