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The Resident Ensemble Players (REP), the professional theatre company in residence at the University of Delaware, is excited to announce its 2024-2025 Season. The upcoming season brings five stunning stories to the stage!
The REP opens it's 17th season of plays with Heidi Schreck's What the Constitution Means to Me, a special two-week presentation in the Gore Recital Hall, onstage Sept. 13 through Sept. 22. Challenging, hopeful, and funny – this ground-breaking play takes a sharp analysis at the biases inherent in the Constitution and imagines how this founding document could shape the next generation of Americans.
Overlaping in the Thompson Theatre from Sept. 19 through Oct. 6 is The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised] [again], by by Adam Long, Daniel Singer, and Jess Winfield. This fast-paced comedy is guaranteed to have both lovers and haters of Shakespeare in stitches as it covers ALL of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets in just one night.
The fall continues with hilarity and hijinx in Tom Stoppard's Rough Crossing, which is freely adapted from Ferenc Molnar's classic comedy. This laugh-out-loud farce performs Nov. 7 through Nov. 24. Two playwrights, one jealous composer, and most of the cast of a Broadway-bound show attempt to simultaneously finish writing and rehearse the play while crossing the Atlantic on an ocean liner.
Next, the REP presents Misery, by William Goldman, running from Feb. 13 through Mar. 2. Based on the novel by Stephen King, this terrifying psychological thriller follows the disturbed mind of a former nurse as she holds her favorite author captive. As the author struggles to escape, he realizes that the biggest challenge of his life will be surviving the wrath of his “number one fan".
Closing out the season is William Shakespeare's classic tragedy King Lear, on stage Apr. 10 through Apr. 27. King Lear has decided to end his reign and divide his country among his three daughters. Loyalties are misjudged and Lear soon finds himself stripped of everything that once defined him. A classic tale full of betrayal and chaos that only the Bard could weave.
