13th Dream Up Festival

The inaugural Dream Up Festival offered 25 shows consisting of 23 World Premieres and 2 American Premieres.

Dismantling Prospero- Workshop
Playwright: Tom Rowan
Director: Kevin Ray
Producer: Marty Goldin

Professor Griffin Bates is a dynamic choreographer who has built a top-ranked dance department at Midwestern University. He struggled to hold the program together during the recent pandemic, teaching dance classes online. Now that the students are finally back on campus, he decides to reinvigorate the department with an especially ambitious spring production: an original ballet version of The Tempest—and audaciously casts himself as the magician Prospero. But is Griffin prepared to navigate the minefield of today’s culture wars? A provocative and timely dance/theatre piece, “Dismantling Prospero” takes an unflinching look at diversity training, Shakespeare, artistic freedom, and campus politics in our rapidly changing world.

Cost: $15
Location: Community Theater
Running time: Dismantling Prospero is 2 Hours.

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