The Department of Theatre Presents: Togetherness

Facilitated by Gabriela Petrov

For this ensemble class, students are exploring “togetherness” as a methodology to investigate The Firebugs, a play from 1953 by Swiss playwright Max Frisch. Using ensemble-based performance practices, we are working to create the supportive conditions for each performer to find and inhabit their place within an ensemble. This text explores how suspicion, denial, and numbness can spread in communities, like fire. A performance work emerges to reflect the ensemble’s discoveries from this text and its themes. By drawing on embodied practices like the Six Viewpoints, Moment Work and Body-Mind Centering, the ensemble is building a foundation of somatic awareness and experimentation. This foundation supports the development of a performance work that aims to meet the present moment through a lens of togetherness. We can experience the present moment on an individual scale but can also broaden our awareness to include the ensemble and beyond.

November 27 - 29, 2025

November 27 at 7:30pm (Opening)

November 28 at 7:30pm

November 29 at 2:00pm

Pay what you can (Limited Seats)