March 2nd, 2021
Original articles linked here and here.
“PITTSBURGH – Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama’s spring 2021 season of plays will be streamed online to patrons free of charge. With the current pandemic prohibiting live theater, the school’s goal is to make its performances accessible to subscribers, supporters of the arts as well as friends and family of students.
“This past year has demonstrated in new ways how crucial art and storytelling is to our society. By making our students’ work accessible online, we hope to fill that need and expand our artistic reach to those who previously have not been able to attend a performance at Carnegie Mellon University,” said Megan Monaghan Rivas, interim head of the School of Drama.
Kicking off the season on March 10 will be the New Works Series of original plays from students in the Dramatic Writing graduate program.”
“The New Works Series is the cauldron in which new ideas, concepts, and performance practices are presented to our audiences by the next generation of dramatic writers. Authored by graduate students in their final year of the Dramatic Writing program at the School of Drama, the series fosters a deliberate collaboration between students of various disciplines, bringing together both undergraduate and graduate students, to mirror the creation of work in the professional world.”
E-Z FIX
BY TRACY HOIDA
DIRECTED BY JACOB MUSGROVE
Wednesday, March 10 at 9:00 PM ET
Friday, March 12 at 6:30 PM ET
Something strange is happening at the E-z Fix Repair Shop for Electronics and Appliances. In the near future, tinkerer and inventor E-z feels trapped running a repair shop in their small town where they are constantly at odds with their best friend as well as their landlord and ex-boyfriend. E-z only finds respite in their invention of various android friends, most recently their buddy KD who despite being only a head, seems to understand and accept E-z more than the actual humans around them. But bigger problems are on the horizon when a clumsy time traveler with a faulty time machine comes crashing into the shop. Can E-z help repair the time machine before it explodes and wipes out all of existence as we know it? As the world literally comes crashing down, will E-z find the strength to take control of their life? E-Z FIX explores the vivid individuals that live outside the gender binary and the importance of having allies in every journey we take across time and space.
Attention: This performance contains strobe light effects.