Theatre

Theatre at Fairfield is about doing it all. Acting. Directing. Designing. Playwrighting. Building Scenery. Setting the Lights. Creating Costumes. Devising Sound Effects. Managing our Production Company.

We practice in the theatre what we discover in the classroom. Our majors and minors experience the intimacy of a small arts community while benefiting from the broad range of liberal arts courses that Fairfield University provides all undergraduate students. Part of the Department of Visual and Performing Arts, theatre program classes examine the history, theory, and literature of theatre while considering artistic methods and techniques. We put that knowledge to work in our theatre laboratory, Theatre Fairfield.

Theatre Fairfield's season includes professionally directed and designed productions; a Festival of student-written, directed, and designed plays; performances by On the Spot, our improv company; Director's Cut or A Class Act which features the work of advanced directing and acting students; and independent projects created by junior and senior majors.

Theatre Fairfield's professionally directed and designed plays and musicals, as well as Festival, are selected each year by students and faculty. Recent productions have included Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part One; Lend Me A Tenor by Ken Ludwig; Miss Julie and Creditors by August Strindberg; the rock musical Hair; John Guare's The House of Blue Leaves; the musical hit Little Shop of Horrors; Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour; Aphra Behn's classic Restoration comedy, The Rover; and the world premiere of an African drama, Ota Benga: Elegy for the Elephant, by Ben Halm.