THIS IS NOT A DRILL
The Dawson Theatre Collective has produced the compelling, original, and engaging plays: Looking For Virgil Swift (2014), Hamlette: The Melancholy Dame (2013), Lysistrata (2012), Not Julius Caesar (2011), A Midsummer Night’s Kick-Ass Dream (2010), Rhinoceros (2009), and Uphill Both Ways (2008).
Now they’re back with a brand new, student-written play that will have you thinking—and laughing—along with a cast of 30 from the Dawson College community.
In the early autumn of the near future, the students of Dawson College live in a city not unlike our own. In 2019 their summers are a little longer, their oceans are a little higher, and their polar bears are extinct. They go to school, make friends, fall in love, and subsist in the myopic bliss of youth. But when a catastrophic natural disaster traps them in the school, the students are forced to realize just how precarious their world really is in their struggle to survive. From the rubble, they must learn what they will live for and what they are willing to die for… before everything left to live for, dies.
A humorous take on the trials of a generation that isn’t afraid to ask serious questions, This Is Not a Drill promises to be our most thought-provoking production to date.
Created by: Carl Bindman, Alex Cruz, Alessandra Tom, Pavlo Tull, Ann Lambert
Music & Lyrics: Luana Aubert, Zoe Bujold & Paula Rosen
Directed by: Ann Lambert
May 6+7 at 19:30 and May 9 at 14:00+19:30
$10 Students and Seniors $15 General /May 9 Matinee: $Pay What You Can
@ The New Dawson Theatre/2000 Atwater Avenue
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All proceeds from this show will go directly to support the Theresa Foundation, which exists to raise funds for grandmothers and their A.I.D.S.- orphaned grandchildren in over 20 villages in Malawi. We have a very personal connection to the foundation that ensures that the all money will be delivered directly. No donation is too small…or too big!
For much more information, please visit the website: www.theresafoundation.com
