2018-2019 Theatre Productions

Edgar Allan Poe Anthology

Directed by Ana Gresham ’19 & Cara Smole ’22

Presenting several of Edgar Allan Poe’s most famous works including “The Tell-Tale Heart.”

Show times | February 15, 16 and 22 at 8 pm, February 23 at 2:30 pm

Sanderson Auditorium
$10 General Admission
$7 Senior/Military/Student/Covenant Staff Discount

To reserve tickets or get information about group rates, please contact the box office:
boxoffice@covenant.edu
706.419.1051

Magdalen

Written and performed by Erin Layton
Directed by Julie Kline

A one-woman show that premiered at the New York International Fringe Festival, has also been performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe as well as Off-Broadway. Erin Layton is a member of Ascension Church (PCA) in Queens, NY.

From the show’s website:

"MAGDALEN is a fictional exploration of the women and children who passed through the Magdalene Laundries as slave laborers to orders of nuns in mid twentieth century Ireland, and the complicity of the church and society that tried to keep their stories hidden."

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Show time | March 16 at 8:00 pm

Sanderson Auditorium
$5 General Admission
Free to season pass subscribers

To reserve tickets, please contact the box office:
boxoffice@covenant.edu
706.419.1051

Flowers for Algernon

Written by David Rogers, based on the novel by Daniel Keyes
Directed by Maya Pirschel ’19 (Senior Integration Project)

Charlie, an intellectually challenged adult, is the subject of an experiment which rapidly increases his intelligence to a genius level. The play explores whether our value as humans lies in our capabilities.

Show times | April 4, 5, 6, and 12 at 8 pm, April 13 at 2:30 pm

Sanderson Auditorium
$10 General Admission
$7 Senior/Military/Student/Covenant Staff Discount

To reserve tickets or get information about group rates, please contact the box office:
boxoffice@covenant.edu
706.419.1051

"Protest" & Other Writings

Written by Vaclav Havel
Translated by Vera Blackwell
Directed by Prof. Camille Hallstrom

Featuring 20th-Century Czech dissident/statesman/playwright Vaclav Havel's one-act play "Protest" together with selections from his philosophical and presidential essays and speeches.

The Tempest

Written by William Shakespeare
Directed by Prof. Claire Slavovsky
Music by John Reeder ’17

One of Shakespeare’s late romances, The Tempest is the fantastical story of Prospero, the exiled Duke of Milan, and his quest to restore his daughter’s place in the world and bring a reckoning to his enemies.

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