Playgrounds are designed to be dangerous enough for experimentation, yet safe enough to allow experiments to fail without serious injury. This play is a playground. When Arthur is asked to design a bulletproof playscape for his daughter’s old school, he confronts an unsettling reality: that the world does not operate by the same rules as playgrounds. At a time when dangers beyond the playground are overwhelmingly present, this is a story about the endurance of care. It is a play about learning, growing up, and grown-ups learning to play.

EPSG:4326

Utnt (Ut New Theatre): Pretend It's Pretend

The University of Texas at Austin

In this hilarious and outlandish story, the lives of six teenagers from a Canadian chamber choir are cut short in a freak accident aboard a roller coaster. When they awake in limbo, a mechanical fortune teller invites each to tell a story to win a prize like no other — the chance to return to life. A funny, moving look at what makes a life well-lived!

Ride The Cyclone

University of Texas at Austin

Four trees in the north Maine woods communicate through an underground network of roots and fungi. Four women, each struggling to come into her own in a nearby rural logging town, pass each other gifts by way of the town’s one-car postal service. By blurring the boundary between human and tree, elizabeth is going into the ground contemplates the communities of our forests, weaving a tale of love, resilience and old growth.

Jenny Lavery

Events

Past events

1 - 3 Mar, 2024

Utnt (Ut New Theatre): Pretend It's Pretend · The University of Texas at Austin Department of Theatre and Dance

Oct 25 - Nov 5, 2023

Ride The Cyclone · The University of Texas at Austin Department of Theatre and Dance

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