Drama Productions

The 2018-2019 academic year will be filled with festivities and special events marking the 175^th anniversary of Clarke. The arts and lecture offerings for the year will pay tribute to this milestone with a series of events designed to highlight the theme and showcase our extremely talented alumni, students, and faculty.

The year will be celebrated through art, music, drama, and lectures with a theme of Home. This single word can take on a variety of identities – Clarke as home, Dubuque as home, Iowa as home, pride in where your story starts. The theme of Home allows for celebration, reflection, and hope.

Welcome home to Clarke University.

March

March 7 – March 10

Waiting For Godot

A masterpiece of absurdist theatre, Nobel Prize for Literature recipient Samuel Beckett’s two-act tragicomedy observes two “tramps”, Didi and Gogo, as they wait for the enigmatic Godot to arrive. Throughout the play, they seek out understanding or, at least, amusement as they wait. Layered with vaudeville antics, comic wit, and absurdist depth, the play resonates as strongly today as when it was first conceived over fifty years ago.

March 7-9, 7:30 p.m.
March 10, 2 p.m.

Terence Donaghoe Hall, $10/adults;
$7/seniors; $5/non-Clarke students; FREE/Clarke alumni

May

May 2 – May 5

Seminar

A provocative comedy from Pulitzer Prize nominee Theresa Rebeck, four aspiring young novelists sign up for private writing classes with Leonard, an international literary figure.  Under his recklessly brilliant and unorthodox instruction, some thrive and others flounder, alliances are made and broken, and hearts are unmoored.  The wordplay is not the only thing that turns vicious as innocence collides with experience in this biting Broadway comedy.

May 2-4, 7:30 p.m.
May 5, 2 p.m.

Terence Donaghoe Hall, $10/adults;
$7/seniors; $5/non-Clarke students; Free/Clarke alumni