PERFORMANCES

The War of the Roses
Adapted by Paul Edwards, "The War of the Roses" is a one-evening adaptation and speed-through of Shakespeare's two tetralogies of English history plays, which focuses on the rarely performed three parts of Henry VI.
Directed and performed by students in the Performance Studies class, "Shakespeare's English Histories."
8 p.m. Friday, December 2
2 and 8 p.m. Saturday, December 3

Alina Troyano, a.k.a. Carmelita Tropicana
As part of the “Performance/Art: Artist Talks on Performance Art” series, The Department of Performance Studies is hosting a video talk by New York performance artist Alina Troyano, performing as her alter ego, the spitfire Carmelita Tropicana.
Location: Alvina Krause Studio, Annie May Swift
5 p.m. Wednesday, November 9
Free and open to the public

The Ladies Ring Shout
Presented by Performance Studies alumna Meida Teresa McNeal, “The Ladies Ring Shout” journeys through contemporary experiences of women of color using a combination of spoken word, movement, and original soundtracks. This multimedia work presents four frames that conjure lived realities: statistical and sociological data; everyday quotidian acts; disciplinary codes and rules; mythical imaginings of future possibilities.
Location: Alvina Krause Studio, Annie May Swift
7 p.m. Friday, January 6
Free and open to the public

Karen Tongson
As part of the “Performance/Studies: Scholarly Engagements in Performance” series, The Department of Performance Studies welcomes Karen Tongson from the University of Southern California for her talk, “Latchkey Aesthetics and New Sound Karaoke.”
Location: Alvina Krause Studio, Annie May Swift
Noon. Wednesday, February 8
Free and open to the public

Home Between Waves
Adapted and directed by undergraduate Performance Studies student Abby Schwartz, “Home Between Waves” explores the experience of adjusting to life in a new place, drawing on works of fiction, non-fiction, and original interviews. Characters real andimagined find themselves far away from home, and caught between worlds. Theperformance journeys through Northwestern and around the world along the U-curve of adjustment, from the naiveté of newly arrived honeymooners to the nostalgia of an elderly woman waiting to die far from the place of her birth.
Location: Alvina Krause Studio, Annie May Swift.
8 p.m. Friday, February 10
2 and 8 p.m. Saturday, February 11

Roberto Sifuentes
Continuing the “Performance/Art: Artist Talks on Performance Art” series, Roberto Sifuentes will discuss his work, which combines live performance with interactive technologies and video as a presentation medium.
Location: Alvina Krause Studio, Annie May Swift
5 p.m. Wednesday, February 22
Free and open to the public

Webster’s “The White Devil”
Adapted and directed by Rachel Cali.
Location: Alvina Krause Studio, Annie May Swift
8 p.m.  Friday, April 13
2 and 8 p.m. Saturday, April 14

Carrie Sandahl
Visiting from the University of Illinois-Chicago, Carrie Sandahl will close the “Performance/Studies: Scholarly Engagements inPerformance” series with her talk, “The Limitations of Accommodation: Disability and Aesthetic Innovation.”
Location: Alvina Krause Studio, Annie May Swift
Noon. Wednesday, April 18

Labor Rites
Adapted and directed by Performance Studies Chair, D. Soyini Madison, with choreography by Joel Valentin-Martinez, Senior Lecturer in the Theatre Department at Northwestern University, “Labor Rites” explores the history of the labor movement in the United States. This multimedia performance will be a montage of digital imagery, comic satire, dramatic monologue, song, stylized movement, and dance.
Location: Wallis Theatre, Theatre and Interpretation Center
Two weekends:
May 11-13 and May 18-20
8 p.m. Friday and Saturday
2 p.m. Sunday

One For My Baby
Written and directed by Gregory Mitchell, One For My Baby tells the story of a young American expat living in 1950s Paris, who has a sexual awakening amidst the debauchery of the city’s bohemian underground nightlife. Told through a non-linear storyline, David's torrid romance with a dashing but unstable immigrant begins as a lustful and forbidden encounter. When the men retreat from the world, though, theirs becomes a frightening relationship that presses both of them to the edge of reason. As rivalries and intrigue mount and secrets are revealed, one of them commits a horrible crime that may doom them both.
Location: Alvina Krause Studio, Annie May Swift
7 p.m. Thursday and Friday, May 17 and 18
2 and 7 p.m. Saturday May, 19

The Extinction Project 
Written by Derek L. Barton, Directed by Anna Bahow.
A man returns to his native North Florida seeking an aging botanist and a vanishing tree. A lonely bachelor discovers a live dodo in his laundry hamper. A symphony conductor and drag queen resurrect the American passenger pigeon with music. The Extinction Project is a multimedia work and performance project examining the disappearance of species, places, people, and ways of living in the South and beyond. It is a combination of original work and non-fiction, and relates the author's search, set against the backdrop of the 2010 Deepwater Horizons spill, for an endangered tree in Florida's Panhandle. This staged reading is open to the public. A talk-back will follow.
Location: Alvina Krause Studio, Annie May Swift
7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 24