iNtui-Who?
iNtuitons Experimental Theatre is the University of Pennsylvania's only student-run experimental theatre group. iNtuitons comes from two words: intuition and automaton. The group was chartered to "attract people with diverse artistic interests and in order to provide an outlet for creative people whose ideas are too Classical or Avant-Garde to be supported by existing groups." Check out our constitution.
Each year we present a student-directed mainstage production in the fall and spring, our annual Alternative Theatre Festival featuring student submissions (part of Philly FringeArts Festival), plus participating in the Theatre Arts Council's One Acts Festival each winter. We also typically put on a bonus winter show, plus the occasional play-reading or guerilla theatre experiment (e.g.).
Our "taste" is broad in scope. iNtuitons has produced work by such diverse writers as Vaclav Havel, Sarah Kane, Euripides, Joseph Conrad, Sam Shepard, Milan Kundera, Caryl Churchill... just to name a few.
Each year we present a student-directed mainstage production in the fall and spring, our annual Alternative Theatre Festival featuring student submissions (part of Philly FringeArts Festival), plus participating in the Theatre Arts Council's One Acts Festival each winter. We also typically put on a bonus winter show, plus the occasional play-reading or guerilla theatre experiment (e.g.).
Our "taste" is broad in scope. iNtuitons has produced work by such diverse writers as Vaclav Havel, Sarah Kane, Euripides, Joseph Conrad, Sam Shepard, Milan Kundera, Caryl Churchill... just to name a few.
EXPERIMENTAL, you say?
Some "far in the past" experiments include:
Some more recent experiments include:
Excited? cool.
Confused? even better.
Wanna get involved? the best.
- Collaborating with Stimulus Children's Theater to re-create Lewis Carroll's Wonderland, in which the audience members themselves played Alice
- Metamorphosizing Mary Zimmerman's rendition of Ovid's "Metamorphoses" into a technical spectacular
- Defenestrating naughty audience members with an updated version of Dario Fo's "Accidental Death of an Anarchist"
- Performing "The Walworth Farce" (a show about being trapped inside) out on College Green through a thunderstorm.
Some more recent experiments include:
- An outdoor, fully fire-lit light opera based on the classic Simpsons characters in Mr. Burns - A post-electric play
- Presenting Agatha Christie's classic British comedy, The Mousetrap, as commedia del'arte
- Devising a documentary theatre piece exploring Internet culture (social media, human relationships) and performing it with projection screens, all in six weeks
- Transforming the PAC Shop into Mark Rothko's paint studio for John Logan's Red
Excited? cool.
Confused? even better.
Wanna get involved? the best.