The University of New Orleans

2019 -2020
THEATRE SEASON

Theatre UNO in the School of the Arts brings 4 main-stage productions to the Lakefront campus each academic year. We collaborate with the Creative Writing Workshop to showcase our playwrights in a Fall reading series. We encourage our students to connect with the New Orleans theatre community and aid in internship placements. As part of our community outreach mission, we offer special student matinee performances for local high schools. Our program provides a broad, liberal arts education as it trains students in the disciplines of acting for stage and screen, directing, and design. We strive to inspire creativity, imagination and investigative thinking, as we prepare students to enter today’s ever-changing performing arts markets.

7:30pm | UNO Performing Arts Center, Robert E. Nims Theatre

SHOWING IN SPRING 2020

FOOL FOR LOVE

FEB 2nd - FEB 15th

Through searing truth and dark humor, Fool for Love shows the story of two people who just can't live without each other whether they like it or not. May is hiding out at an old motel in the Mojave Desert. Eddie, an old flame and childhood friend, finds her there and threatens to drag her back into the life from which she had fled. Reality and dream; truth and lies; past and present mingle in an explosive, emotional experience.

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THE ELEPHANT MAN

APR 22nd - MAY 2nd

John Merrick, a horribly deformed young man – becomes the star freak attraction in traveling sideshows. Found abandoned and helpless, he is admitted to London’s Whitechapel Hospital. Celebrated young physician Frederick Treves, introduces Merrick to London society and he slowly evolves from an object of pity to an urbane and witty favorite of the aristocracy. His ultimate dream, to become a man like any other.