Senior Theatre Festival 2024

Our capstone experience in the major and something that sets our department apart from many others. This festival is collaboratively curated and produced by the senior theatre major class and presented in an intimate setting in-the-round on the Norton Clapp stage. The plays are often diverse and ambitious, featuring a large number of our students (both majors and non-majors).

Truth be Told by William Cameron

Directed by Ryan Bennett ‘24
Featuring Alice Noble ‘24 (as Kathleen) and Canela Roey ‘24 (as Jo)

Truth Be Told by William Cameron seeks to understand loss in a world of sensationalized tragedy. The play features two characters, Kathleen (played by Alice Noble) and Jo (played by Canela Roey). One year before the play begins, Kathleen’s son opens fire in his workplace, killing fourteen people before taking his own life. Now, Jo, a journalist, is sitting down with Kathleen to learn her perspective on her son and the tragedy he committed. This provides a zoomed-in lens on Kathleen’s relationships with the memories of her family, the community her son turned on, and those weaponizing kindness to take advantage of her isolation and grief. This grounded, visceral play is bursting with tension surrounding hard conversations about our humanity, the complexities of motherhood, and the political nature of truth. If hurt people hurt people, how can we heal? Between objective facts and subjective experiences, how can we construct an understanding of the whole truth? How do we nurture and care for the people around us so they know they are loved?

Content Warnings: Heavy Discussion of Gun Violence, Discussion of the loss of a child, discussion of abuse, and discussion of suicide.

Performances

• April 11: 7:30 p.m.
• April 12: 7:30 p.m.
• April 13: 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.