Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, fall 2024
Students run the board in the theatre booth.
Rehearsal on the Main Stage
Act. Direct. Write. Sing. Design. Build. Bring your own vision to life. Welcome to theatre at Sweet Briar.
Theatre and Musical Theatre
The theatre arts at Sweet Briar are strongly interdisciplinary, allowing students to pursue one area in great depth while encouraging collaboration with other performing arts.
At Sweet Briar, we encourage theatre students to engage with every aspect of production, from acting and directing to lighting design and electrics. Our faculty have extensive professional experience in the theatre and are ready to mentor the next generation of theatre artists, whatever aspect of theatre they decide to pursue.
In our faculty-directed season, we produce everything from musicals to Shakespeare to cutting-edge contemporary work. Our proscenium theatre, Murchison Lane, is perfect for larger shows, while our Studio Theatre is ideal for smaller, more intimate performances. Seniors often elect to direct shows of their own, and our season of student-directed work augments what happens on the main stage.
Come one! Come all! Auditions for the spring play, UBU MORT-VIVANT, will be held in Babcock on Monday Jan 12 and Tuesday Jan 13 at 7pm!
No prep necessary. No prior experience required.
UbuMort-Vivant (“Ubu the Living Dead”) is a recently discovered contested addition to the Ubu canon of plays composed by the French proto-absurdist playwright Alfred Jarry (1873-1907). Written in 1937, thirty years after its author’s death, Ubu Mort-Vivant finds deposed autocrat Pa Ubu using highly unconventional (i.e. supernatural) means to return to power after a complete defeat at the hands of his enemies. Presciently forecasting the global return of strongman rule in the twenty-first century, Ubu Mort-Vivant is an avant-garde riot of obscenity, zombies, and deadly serious ridiculousness.
STAMMTISCH:an Arts-Wide lunch meeting forallarts division majors and minors*(English and Creative Writing, Studio Art, Art History, Theatre, Dance, Music, Arts Management)
Come one! Come all! Auditions for the spring play, UBU MORT-VIVANT, will be held in Babcock on Monday Jan 12 and Tuesday Jan 13 at 7pm!
No prep necessary. No prior experience required.
UbuMort-Vivant (“Ubu the Living Dead”) is a recently discovered contested addition to the Ubu canon of plays composed by the French proto-absurdist playwright Alfred Jarry (1873-1907). Written in 1937, thirty years after its author’s death, Ubu Mort-Vivant finds deposed autocrat Pa Ubu using highly unconventional (i.e. supernatural) means to return to power after a complete defeat at the hands of his enemies. Presciently forecasting the global return of strongman rule in the twenty-first century, Ubu Mort-Vivant is an avant-garde riot of obscenity, zombies, and deadly serious ridiculousness.
The Great Comet Enters Sweet Briar’s Atmosphere
The Theatre Arts Department presents a four-show run of Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812.
