Join us Monday of next week for the final Theater & Performance Studies workshop of the fall quarter. We’ll discuss the Court Theater’s current production of The Mystery of Irma Vep with dramaturg, Drew Dir.
Monday, November 30
Wieboldt 206, 3-5p
Director, Sean Graney (founder of The Hypocrites) takes on the eccentric playwright and actor Charles Ludlam’s satirical cult classic, originally performed in 1984’s Greenwich Village. The campy spoof of the Victorian era gothic novel is a commentary of sorts, parodying literary references from William Shakespeare, Henrik Ibsen, Emily Bronte, Edgar Allan Poe, Euripides and the Bible, to name a few (without being too literarily obscure, but more Monty Pythonesque).
The Trib calls Irma Vep a “gothic spoof: read the review.