{"id":134679,"date":"2021-09-03T10:43:01","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T16:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=134679"},"modified":"2021-09-03T13:23:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T19:23:53","slug":"theatreworks-kicks-off-2021-22-season-with-witch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=134679","title":{"rendered":"Theatreworks Kicks Off 2021-22 Season with \u201cWitch\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Theatreworks has announced that \u201cWitch\u201d will open its live, in-person season on September 16 in the Dusty Loo Bon Vivant Theater at the Ent Center for the Arts on the UCCS campus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWitch,\u201d directed by Theatreworks Artistic Director Caitlin Lowans, will feature a local all-star cast and run through October 10. \u201cWitch\u201d is a contemporary take on a Jacobean play by playwright Jen Silverman about a woman who may be a witch, thinking fast when a man who is definitely the devil comes knocking in this dark comedy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cast includes local favorites Sammie Joe Kinnett (UCCS graduate) and Birgitta DePree, both Colorado Springs professional actors and educators. DePree\u2019s (UCCS faculty) work includes performing, writing, directing and teaching, in addition to work as one of the founding co-artistic directors of the beloved Millibo Art Theater. In addition, the play will feature Hossein Forouzandeh (UCCS graduate), David Anthony Lewis, Samia Mounts, and Christian O\u2019Shaughnessy (UCCS graduate). The creative team includes Lowans (direction; UCCS staff), Bri Pilon (scenic design), Jennifer Fok (lighting design), Pheobe Boynton (costume design; UCCS staff), Noel Armendariz (sound design\/composition; UCCS student), Geoffrey Kent (fight direction), Tiffany Tinsley-Weeks (choreography; UCCS faculty), Sarah Dale Lewis (stage management), and AJ Vafiades (assistant stage management; UCCS graduate).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWitch is a wildly funny dark comedy which grabbed me from the first moment on the page,\u201d Lowans said. \u201cSilverman takes the trope of the devil coming to town dealing in souls, and uses it as a springboard for looking at our own time, whether we have hope for the world, and what we would sacrifice in order to change it. In this time of return from the pandemic, we love asking the big questions with humor and we couldn\u2019t have found a more wonderful entirely Colorado Springs based-cast to bring this to life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tickets for \u201cWitch\u201d are available at the Ent Center for the Arts Box Office, online at https:\/\/entcenterforthearts.org\/theatreworks\/events\/witch<\/a> or by calling (719) 255-3232. Witch is sponsored by Al and Leigh Buettner and runs September 16 to October 10 on each Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 7:30 p.m. and for Saturday matinees at 2:30 p.m. Ticket prices start at $20 with special pricing available for youth (under 18), educators, military and more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n