News Release
INDIANAPOLIS —
Butler Theatre begins its spring 2013 season with Pigeons, a new play by Butler University English professor Dan Barden, Feb. 20 to March 3 in Lilly Hall Studio Theatre 168.
Tickets are $15 for general admission, $10 for seniors, and $5 for Butler students with ID. Tickets are available online at www.butler.edu/theatre/
productions/reservations/ or can be reserved by calling the box office at (317) 940-9247 beginning two weeks before each production opens.
Show times are below.
Pigeons will be followed by Lunar Revolution 2.0 (April 10-21) and SEVEN: Journeys (April 23-28).
Butler Theatre’s 2012-13 season, except for the bookend performances of SEVEN, has featured all original work, created for the first time on Butler’s stages, by Butler students.
“This is the kind of eclectic, risk-taking season that is one of the trademarks of Butler Theatre,” Butler Theatre chairman William Fisher said. “And, though SEVEN and Journeys are not new, they are current and connect our work to local and international communities in new ways.”
More about each production follows.
‘Pigeons’
What: A new play by Butler English professor Dan Barden, directed by professor Diane Timmerman.
Previews: Feb. 20-21, 8 p.m.
Opening: Feb. 22, 8 p.m.
Running: Feb. 23, 28, March 1, 2 at 8 p.m. and Feb. 24, March 2, 3 at 2 p.m.
Where: Butler Studio Theatre Lilly Hall 168
About: As a popular sponsor around her metropolitan AA meetings, Sarah Simone is adored by her “girls.” But when the daughter she gave up for adoption 15 years earlier shows up outside her home group, these young women will struggle mightily to protect their sponsor from the emotional and spiritual train wreck that they are afraid is about to happen. “Pigeons” is a play about how families are lost and found and sometimes dreamed up out of the air.
‘Lunar Revolution 2.0’
What: A production devised by the company, conceived and directed by William Fisher
Previews: April 10 and 11, 8 p.m.
Opening: April 12, 8 p.m.
Running: April 13, 18, 19, 20 at 8 p.m. and April 14, 20, 21 at 2 p.m.
Where: Butler Studio Theatre Lilly Hall 168
About: This production is part of the Butler Arts Festival. “Revolution 2.0” will be created collectively and built through devised studies and improvisations, sampling text, sound, music and images. In the spirit of the Butler ArtsFest theme of revolution, the structure of this devised performance is borrowed from Schoenberg’s 1912 revolutionary opera, Pierrot Lunaire. “Lunar Revolution 2.0” will take inspiration and sourcing from events and centenarian revolutionaries who may include John Cage, Eugene Ionesco, Studs Terkel, Gil Evans, maybe Dale Evans, and the 1912 U.S. presidential election. It’s humanity as an eternal relationship with the moon. We conquered the moon in 1969. Then what? Now what?
“Lunar Revolution 2.0” asks: What are the conquests and revolutions that remain in our behavior, our language, our aspirations? What are we allowed — or permit ourselves — to say? As we yearn for transcendence, how do we pilot change? How do we now get the moon?
SEVEN: Journeys
What: Plays by Paula Cizmar, Catherine Filloux, Gail Kriegel, Carol K. Mack, Ruth Margraff, Anna Deavere Smith and Susan Yankowitz, directed by William Fisher.
When: Week of April 23-28 (exact dates, times and admission to be announced).
About: The seven-monologue plays will be in two separate programs from the Vital Voices Global Partnership project SEVEN, a co-production with The Phoenix Theatre.
They are part of the Butler Arts Festival at the Howard Schrott Center for the Performing and Visual Arts.
