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The BYU-Idaho Department of Theatre offers a wide span of theatrical experiences to engage its participants and accommodate their diverse strengths. It is our highest aim to provide students with spiritual and academic opportunities in all aspects of the creative process of theatre. They will be trained in an environment that fosters individual creativity and commitment to the principles of the restored gospel.
Classes and experiences are designed to develop the performance skills necessary to excel as actors and directors. We teach principles of theatrical design and technology, enabling students to deepen their understanding of dramatic literature, theatre history, and criticism. A number of degrees, minors, and concentrations are offered to individualize students' education and career paths.
Students don't have to be a theatre major to audition for productions and enroll in theatre classes, we encourage everyone to participate! Regardless of major or skill level, students can find great educational, social, and enjoyable experiences. Students with interests in technical theatre, set design, costume design and set construction can also volunteer to help with theatrical productions.
Upcoming Productions
Directed by Trevor Hill
Page to Stage as a series intends to bring together actors, audiences, students, and scholars to explore and celebrate a few historic plays. The focus is on the text and imagination of the participants through staged readings. This Fall we’ll explore two plays by renowned novelist and playwright Agatha Christie. Christie’s murder mysteries are brimming with intrigue, sophisticated humor, and surprising twits. Each play will have 4 performances in repertory.
The Mousetrap
October 9, 11, 16, 18 at 7:30 pm
Snow Drama Theatre
The Mousetrap is the world's longest-running play! After a local woman is murdered, the guests and staff at Monkswell Manor find themselves stranded during a snowstorm. It soon becomes clear that the killer is among them. When a second murder takes place, tensions and fears escalate. This record-breaking murder mystery features a brilliant surprise finish from Dame Agatha Christie, the foremost mystery writer of her time.
Fiddler’s Three
October 10, 12, 15, 17 at 7:30 pm
Snow Drama Theatre
In Fiddler’s Three we find a group of young people trying to get their hands on a little inheritance, by hiding the body of a dead tycoon. But what starts as a lark quickly becomes all too serious when they discover that the body is in fact a murder victim. This play combines humor, intricate plotting, and a confounding murder.
"The Mousetrap" and "Fiddlers Three" are presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com
Directed and Adapted by Jennie Pardoe
December 4–6, 10–13 at 7:30 pm
December 14 at 2:00 pm
Snow Black Box Theatre
The Comedy of Errors tells the story of two sets of identical twins who were tragically separated as babies. When Antipholus of Syracuse and his servant, Dromio of Syracuse, arrive in Ephesus, which turns out to be the home of their twin brothers. When the Syracusans encounter the friends and families of their twins, a series of wild mishaps based on mistaken identities lead to wrongful beatings, confusing flirtations, arrests, and false accusations of infidelity, theft, and madness. Set in the 1920s, this production will also feature the music, dance, and design of the American Vaudeville stage.
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