Audience
Showtimes
April 24-27th at 8 p.m.
April 28th at 2 p.m.
Bruce Davis Theater, Montgomery Hall Fine Arts Building
Reservations: email boxoffice@smcm.edu
$5/Students $10/General Public
In this 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama finalist, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
(author of An Octoroon, Appropriate - currently running on Broadway,
and The Comeuppance) re-imagines the 15th-century morality play
Everyman. In this contemporary adaptation, the character of Everybody
is summoned by Death and must take a journey at the end of which
God expects to see a presentation on how they have lived. The main
character is chosen by lottery at the beginning of the play from an
ensemble of Somebodies. If you attend the show more than once,
the title character could be played by a different member of the
cast every night! All the other Somebodies, similarly assigned their
roles at random, have to decide whether or not they’ll accompany
Everybody on this road of reflection, exploring the meaning of life and
morality along the way. Who will be Everybody’s companion on this
most profound – and hilarious – journey? Friendship? Family? Stuff?
Strength? Beauty? Love? This show invites the audience to think about
their own life, the choices they have made, who will be with them
at the end, and what a presentation of one’s life might include. The
randomness of the lottery not only highlights the talents of the cast
but also the fact that any one of us could be Everybody and that we are
all traveling a similar road.
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