Sept. 1, 2007
An Evening of Graudate Student Performances*
The traditional opening of the Kleinau season features a variety of performances selected and performed by our current graduate students.

Oct. 4-6, 2007
Ichor & The Four Humours Present: Percy Per Se Himself Presenting: Fopulous! or All is Vanity (A Tragicomedy of Manners in Five Acts with Narrated Interludes and Dancing)
Written & Directed by Bennett Whitaker
Style over substance! Extreme exteriority! Witness the fainting, fashion-forward fop, Sir Percy Per Se, as he vainly seeks approval from both seventeenth-century England 's privileged nobility and twenty-first-century U.S. America's critical academy. How central is our need to be seen? Is the author really dead? Can audiences effect the unaffected? Revel in the theater of theatre and reflections on reflexion (and reflection) in this tragedy of a comedy, for verily might it offend your à la mode sensibilities!

Nov. 8-10, 2007
"The Academy "
Written and Directed by Ron Pelias
"The Academy" examines the inner working of academic life, focusing on those moments that provide teachers with opportunities for celebration and with reasons for dismay. The show, based upon the words of academics, presents the current state of affairs in university life.

Nov. 29, 30, Dec. 1, 2007 (Double Bill)
Drowning a Diary: Revisioning VirginiaWoolf
Adapted and directed by Alison Aurelia Fisher, Co-directed with Elyse Lamm Pineau
This performance is an act of revisioning Virginia Woolf's life in and with words. A feminist recovering, rereading, extrapolating and conceptualizing of this writer's life tensions will be performed through a collage of diary entries, novels, essays, nonfiction and engaged conversations.

Ana and Mia: A (Dis)ordered Life
by Andrea Wallace
An eye-opening look into the lives of people with eating disorders, this show uses song and dance, narratives and interviews, feminist texts and pro-anorexia websites to open a taboo subject to critical examination and new interpretations. Can anorexia be considered a feminist act of defiance? Are those dealing with bulimia simply trying to be in control of a body that their family and the media try to rule? No one can answer these questions better than the friends of Ana and Mia.

Dec. 4, 2007
Performing Culture Spotlight Performances*

Dec. 6, 2007
Advanced Classes Spotlight Performances*

Spring 2008

Feb. 7-9, 2008
Yes;And...
By Nicholas Zaunbrecher
Featuring an intensive training course in theatrical-quality theme-, character-, and narrative-based longform improvisation, this exercise in unflinching performative spontaneity asks its cast to push their limits as performers to bring us to an unknowable place of transience and possibility where nothing lasts, everything matters, and the audience is absolutely guaranteed to get what it wants—and what it deserves.

March. 20-22, 2008
Blood from a Stone: Mining Elemental Genealogies
By Shauna MacDonald
Blood from a Stone is an exploration and excavation of the bloodshed and bloodlines flowing from the depths of the island of Cape Breton and its North Atlantic waters. Blending local narrative and singing styles with communal genealogy, theories of homeplace, and (underground) working class politics, this performance will evoke the elation and exploitation of communities built (geographically, economically, and culturally) on coal: an (unfor)giving stone infused with the energy of a thousand flowing ferns.

March 26-29, 2008
Shannon Jackson: Visiting Lecturer/Artist *

April 24-26, 2008
Why Not Rule the World: An American Romance
Written and performed Craig Gingrich-Philbrook, with special guests Directed by Sandra Calderon-Garza
From dominion to the survival of the fittest, human beings imagine themselves at the top of creation. Using a variety of media and performance art strategies, this piece presents surreal monologues from religious, political, scientific, and artistic characters who share their takes on the joys and dangers of world domination. Mature Themes.

April 30, 2008
Performing Culture Spotlight Performances*

May 3, 2008
Advanced Classes Spotlight Performances*