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An Enemy of the People
Friday, April 18, 2025 8:00pm
An Enemy of the People
By Henrik Ibsen
Directed by Johanna Kasimow
A New Version Adapted by the Ensemble
In a small rural town, the economy is flourishing as tourists flock to the local baths, creating palpable optimism in the community. But when a local respected scientist makes a catastrophic discovery that the water supply is contaminated, the future of the town becomes unclear. In a new adaptation, directed by Johanna Kasimow and created with the ensemble, An Enemy of the People sparks a...

An Enemy of the People
Saturday, April 19, 2025 8:00pm
An Enemy of the People
By Henrik Ibsen
Directed by Johanna Kasimow
A New Version Adapted by the Ensemble
In a small rural town, the economy is flourishing as tourists flock to the local baths, creating palpable optimism in the community. But when a local respected scientist makes a catastrophic discovery that the water supply is contaminated, the future of the town becomes unclear. In a new adaptation, directed by Johanna Kasimow and created with the ensemble, An Enemy of the People sparks a...

An Enemy of the People
Sunday, April 20, 2025 2:00pm
An Enemy of the People
By Henrik Ibsen
Directed by Johanna Kasimow
A New Version Adapted by the Ensemble
In a small rural town, the economy is flourishing as tourists flock to the local baths, creating palpable optimism in the community. But when a local respected scientist makes a catastrophic discovery that the water supply is contaminated, the future of the town becomes unclear. In a new adaptation, directed by Johanna Kasimow and created with the ensemble, An Enemy of the People sparks a...

Playwrights Workshop Reading: Deep Fried Dolphins
Monday, April 21, 2025 5:30pm
Playwrights Workshop Reading: Deep Fried Dolphinsby Cianon JonesMonday, April 21, 2025, 5:30 p.m.Room 172, Theatre Building There's something funny going on across the Down the Hatch fast-food-fried chicken franchisee locations, and this strangeness is creeping up strong on the location off 12th Street.Please be advised this reading contains mentions, depictions, or portrayals of strong language, sexual content, gore & guts, raw meat consumption, and animal endangerment/cruelty.This reading is...

An Enemy of the People
Thursday, April 24, 2025 8:00pm
An Enemy of the People
By Henrik Ibsen
Directed by Johanna Kasimow
A New Version Adapted by the Ensemble
In a small rural town, the economy is flourishing as tourists flock to the local baths, creating palpable optimism in the community. But when a local respected scientist makes a catastrophic discovery that the water supply is contaminated, the future of the town becomes unclear. In a new adaptation, directed by Johanna Kasimow and created with the ensemble, An Enemy of the People sparks a...

An Enemy of the People
Friday, April 25, 2025 8:00pm
An Enemy of the People
By Henrik Ibsen
Directed by Johanna Kasimow
A New Version Adapted by the Ensemble
In a small rural town, the economy is flourishing as tourists flock to the local baths, creating palpable optimism in the community. But when a local respected scientist makes a catastrophic discovery that the water supply is contaminated, the future of the town becomes unclear. In a new adaptation, directed by Johanna Kasimow and created with the ensemble, An Enemy of the People sparks a...

An Enemy of the People
Saturday, April 26, 2025 8:00pm
An Enemy of the People
By Henrik Ibsen
Directed by Johanna Kasimow
A New Version Adapted by the Ensemble
In a small rural town, the economy is flourishing as tourists flock to the local baths, creating palpable optimism in the community. But when a local respected scientist makes a catastrophic discovery that the water supply is contaminated, the future of the town becomes unclear. In a new adaptation, directed by Johanna Kasimow and created with the ensemble, An Enemy of the People sparks a...

Welcome Reception + Guest Panel
Monday, May 5, 2025 10:30am to 12:00pm
Join us for the kick-off of Iowa New Play Festival 2025! The Welcome Reception begins at 10:30 a.m. and the Guest Panel begins at 11 a.m.

POP!
Monday, May 5, 2025 1:30pm to 3:30pm
POP!By Cianon JonesPart of Iowa New Play Festival – Reading SeriesPOP! explores the proximity of humanity and nature through a forest that is very much alive and deliriously in danger.Please be advised this reading includes mentions/portrayals/inferences to carnage, murder, human cruelty, animal cruelty, blood, death, drug use, destruction, questionable things of the natural and unnatural world.Guest Roundtable to follow.TicketsUI Students (with ID) – Free, limit 1 ticket per IDGeneral Admission...

Adaku
Monday, May 5, 2025 5:30pm to 7:30pm
AdakuBy Sixtus Chetachi IgbokweDirected by Josh TurnerPart of Iowa New Play Festival – Production SeriesIn 1979 Nigeria, a good man’s sudden death in a hunting accident leaves his widow in a mourning chair. Their daughter, Adaku, seeks to bring honor to her community like her great hunter-father, but soon discovers the unwritten rules that govern her destiny as a woman, and even more so, as an Igbo woman.TicketsUI Students (with ID) – Free, limit 1 ticket per IDGeneral Admission – $5, cash...
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