ROLEPLAY: March 13-23 @ LSU/Swine Palace

Hey, hey, hey! I have spent the last couple of months in beautiful Baton Rouge, Louisiana adapting and directing ROLEPLAY for LSU's School of Theatre.

ROLEPLAY speaks to the many issues encountered by American college and university students today. We are presented with a fragmented group of young people who are learning how to be in the world, young people who exist in the breathless space between childhood and adulthood. Over the course of the play they struggle to navigate the challenges they face. Sometimes they succeed, and sometimes they fail. More often than not they navigate their experiences from a true desire to connect, to be seen and accepted, to be loved. To belong. Free from their families of origin for the first time, they create new families, small communities in which they feel valued for what they have to offer. They contend with very real issues: cyber bullying, racism, financial struggles. Identity, sex positivity, and party culture. Sexual assault, parental pressure, and our increasingly mediated existence. Though these issues are not of their making, they grapple to define, both individually and collectively, their own set of values.

directed by Emily K. Harrison

assistant director: Barrett Hileman designed by Christina Griffey, Allie Sullivan, Haley Hughes, & Matthew Gawryk

stage manager: Lio Smith

producer: Kristin Sosnowsky

featuring: Sean Boquet, Sarah Bowman, Jillian Boyles, Layla Brown-Collado, Sarah May Dages, Allison DePriest, Madison Dumas, DJ Flood, Lhéaux Hulin, Reynold Hunter, & Hunter Nastasi

Tickets HERE