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  • Machinal: a UA Theatre Mainstage Production

    November 7, 2024 – November 10, 2024

About the Event:

The University of Akron School of Dance, Theatre, and Arts Administration presents Machinal, by Sophie Treadwell, directed by Terence Cranendonk- a dark, Expressionist drama based on the 1927 case of Ruth Snyder, a woman convicted of killing her husband and executed in the electric chair at New York's famous Sing Sing prison. Machinal (an archaic word meaning "mechanical") not only depicts a Young Woman's struggle to fight back against an oppressive, suffocating social machine that forces her into a meaningless job and a loveless marriage. It reflects a mechanical world that traps and crushes everyone in it--men and women, rich and poor, old and young. We are all complicit, the play seems to say, in creating our mechanical lives.

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November 7, 2024 – November 10, 2024

  • Thu Nov 7, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
  • Fri Nov 8, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
  • Sat Nov 9, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
  • Sun Nov 10, 2:30 PM – 11:59 PM
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