February 28 -March 2, 2019 | 7:30 PM
March 7,8,9 2019 | 7:30 PM
March 3,9, 2019 | 2:00 PM
Tickets:
$10 - General
$5 - Students
Reconnect with friends and meet new students at this special evening. Come and support the continued success of The University of Akron Theater Arts Program.
We look forward to seeing you! For immediate questions, call 330-972-7895.
Register online :
Drama Dayis a wonderful opportunity to experience UA’s Theatre Arts Program and hear about our exciting plans for the future. UA’s full-time theatre faculty members and staff will engage with your students and lead them through a day full of “making theatre work!”
We look forward to seeing you! Please take a moment to register your students for Drama Day. For immediate questions, call 330-972-7895.
Written by Maxin Gorky, The Lower Depths depicts a group of impoverished Russians living in a homeless shelter and is considered a staple of Russian social realism. The Lower Depths explores the dichotomy between the harsh truths of the characters’ reality and the comforting lies that pervade their lives. Most of the characters choose to delude themselves over the bleak reality of their condition. The play first premiered in 1902.
Jimmie Woody (Director)
Jimmie received his M.F.A. in acting from Columbia University. He is a 2012 Creative Workforce Fellow in theatre.
Some of his most recent directorial credits include: ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ by Harper Lee, ‘Clybourne Park’ by Bruce Norris, ‘MLK Day’ by Jimmie Woody, ’365 days/365 Plays’ by Suzan-Lori Parks (Cleveland Public Theater), ‘The Colored Museum’, by George C. Wolfe & ‘When the Chickens Came Home to Roost’ by Laurence Holder (Karamu House), ‘Seedfolks’ by Paul Fleischman (Tri-C JazzFest Cleveland, Cleveland Public Library and the Cleveland Botanical Garden, ’Wilberforce’ & ’Hollis Mugley’s Only Wish’ by Keith Josef Adkins and (Cleveland Public Theatre, The National Black Theater Festival & New York Hip Hop Festival), ‘The Baachae’ written by Wole Soyinka (Cleveland Public Theatre and Columbia University), ‘Song’ by Daniel Gray Kontar and ’InCogNegro’ by Lisa Langford (Cleveland Public Theatre).
Jimmie Woody (Actor)
He most recently played Brucie in Lynn Nottage’s ‘Sweat’ at Cleveland Playhouse and he performed a workshop production of his one-man show Tale of a Geminirisingat Cleveland Public Theatre. His local credits include Cholly in ‘The Bluest Eye’ at Karamu House, Macbeth in ‘Voodoo Macbeth’ at Ensemble Theater, and Booth in ‘Top Dog/Underdog’ at The Beck Center for the Arts. Jimmie directed and performed the role of Dionysus in Cleveland Public Theatre’s production of ‘The Bacchae of Euripides’ translated by Wole Soyinka.
His New York Credits include Hollis in Hollis Mugley’s‘Only Wish’ at Joseph Papp Public Theater directed by Robert Ohara, and The Spaniard in ‘Cymbeline’ at New Shakespeare Festival, among others.
