WILDER & WILDER
A Medley of Thornton Wilder Short Plays
by THORNTON WILDER
directed by ALEJANDRO RODRIGUEZ
The Cast
Each performance is absolutely free. No tickets required.
FALL 2019 TOURING SCHEDULE
| OCT 7 | OCT 8 | OCT 9 | OCT 10 | OCT 11 | OCT 12 | OCT 13 |
| OCT 14 | OCT 15 | OCT 16 | OCT 17 | OCT 18 | OCT 19 | OCT 20 |
Photos & Videos
Measure for Measure (2017)
Click here to read more about UNC’s spotlight on last season’s Mobile Shakespeare!
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- ‘Macbeth’ at LaUNCH in 2018
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- ‘Macbeth’ at UNC’s School of Dentistry in 2018.
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- ‘Macbeth’ at UNC’s Forest Theatre in 2018.
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- ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ on tour in 2017.
More About PlayMakers Mobile
PlayMakers Mobile is a relatively new initiative aimed at taking all the great theatre that we’re doing inside our amazing building and sharing it with our community. In many ways, this is not a new initiative at all. The very beginning of PlayMakers’ hundred-year history involved the company touring into North Carolina communities and in 2016, PlayMakers’ new Producing Artistic Director, Vivienne Benesch, decided it was time to take up that mantle again. “My impulse when I got here was that we needed to connect again with our communities,” she said. “We’ve grown the work that we’ve done here within the Joan H. Gillings Center for Dramatic Art and that’s wonderful, but we need to share what goes on here.”
“So 100 years later, we are getting back on the road and connecting with our communities again.”
Vivienne Benesch
Through partnerships with area non-profits, community organizations, and local schools and libraries, in locations across the Triangle, PlayMakers presents professional-quality, bare bones productions of Shakespeare plays and more, cut to ninety minutes or less. In doing so, we aim to connect with new audiences in their own spaces, truly meeting them where they live. By revealing theatre to be accessible, relevant, and vital, PlayMakers Mobile builds a new audience for these timeless plays and allows PlayMakers to foster new relationships throughout the region.
On Our Blog
Mobile Shakespeare Comes to You
By Jerry Ruiz. Since I arrived here at PlayMakers in August, one of my major projects has been launching our Mobile Shakespeare initiative. This pilot program follows in the tradition of the original Carolina Playmakers and takes inspiration from the incredibly impactful work of Michelle Hensley and her Minneapolis-based theater company, Ten Thousand Things.
Be a Part of the Tour
90-minute total presentation time
70-minute production
10 minutes of pre- and post-show audience engagement activities
Minimal technical needs!
You provide:
• 20’ x 20’ square space (ideal; negotiable).
• Seats surrounding playing area on all four sides.
• 20’ x 20’ square space (ideal; negotiable).
• Seats surrounding playing area on all four sides.
We provide:
• Actors, costumes, and minimal set.
• Simple sound equipment
• Actors, costumes, and minimal set.
• Simple sound equipment
Do you want your community organization, school, or non-profit to be included on the PlayMakers Mobile tour? Contact PlayMakers’ Engagement Associate Jeri Lynn Schulke for more information: jschulke@email.unc.edu