Past Theatre Productions

2022–2023 Season

Year Play Information
2022 #ShakespeareSonnetsAlive
Adapted & directed by Elaina Artemiev
2022 THE STATION: Limbus Time
Adapted and Directed by Bernardo Rey, Christel DeHaan Visiting International Theatre Artist
2023 Men on Boats
By Jaclyn Backhaus
Directed by Andrés López
2023 Waiting for Godot
By Samuel Beckett
Directed by William Fisher

2021–2022 Season

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2021 We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly known as South West Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884-1915
By Jackie Sibblies Drury
Directed by Michael Burke (JCA Signature Series artist & Butler Theatre alum)
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2021 The King Stag
By Carlo Gozzi
Directed by Elaina Artemiev
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2022 Pippin
Music & Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz
Book by Roger O. Hinson
Directed by Emily Ristine Holloway
Choreography by Ramon Flowers
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2022 A (re)making project: a new theatre performance from plays by Charles Mee
Directed by William Fisher
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2020–2021 Season

Year Play Information
2020 Lafcadio, The Lion Who Shot Back
By Shel Silverstein
Directed by Elaina Artemiev
2020 Antigone
By Sophocles
Adapted & Directed by Madeline Sayet
Christel DeHaan Visiting International Theatre Artist
2021 The Living
By Anthony Clarvoe
Directed by Constance Macy
2021 Fleeting Full 2.0
5 Beckett Plays
Conceived & Directed by William Fisher

2019–2020 Season

Year Play Information Details
2019 The Mineola Twins
By Paula Vogl
Directed by William Fisher
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2019 An Enemy of the People
By Henrik Ibsen
Directed by Courtney Elkin Mohler
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2020 Seussical
Based on the works of Dr. Seuss
Directed by Emily Ristine Holloway
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2018–2019 Season

Year Play Information Details
2018 The Servant of Two Masters
By Carlo Goldoni
Adapted and Directed by Christel DeHaan Visiting
International Theatre Artist Marco Luly
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2018 The Wolves
By Sarah DeLappe
Directed by Courtney Elkin Mohler
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2019 The Nameless Star
By Mihail Sebastian
Adapted and Directed by Elaina Artemiev
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2019 The Man Who
By Petre Brook and Marie-Helene Estienne
Directed by William Fisher
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2017–2018 Season

Year Play Information Details
2018 The Little Prince
By Rick Cummings and John Scoullar
based on the book by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Directed by Elaina Artemiev
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2018 A Midsummer Night’s Dream
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Guest Artist Constance Macy
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2017 Stories from Dark Alleys
By Ivan Bunin
Directed by Elaina Artemiev
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2017 The Threepenny Opera
By Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill
Directed by William Fisher
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2016–2017 Season

Year Play Information Details
2017 Love and Information
By Caryl Churchill
Directed by William Fisher
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2017 The Glass Menagerie
By Tennessee Williams
Directed by Elaina Artemiev
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2016 Chamber Music
By Arthur Kopit
Directed by William Fisher
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2016 The Seagull
By Anton Chekhov
Directed by Marina Brusnikina, Christel DeHaan
Visiting International Theatre Artist
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2016 A Reading of Happy Birthday, Wanda June
By Kurt Vonnegut
Directed by William Fisher

2015–2016 Season

Year Play Information Details
2016 Portal 1812
Created collectively by Jordan College of the Arts students from across disciplines
Conceived and directed by Darla Villani
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2016 Karlsson On The Roof
By Astrid Lindgren
Directed by Elaina Artemiev
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2015 Our Town
By Thornton Wilder
Directed by William Fisher
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2015 Truculentus
By Plautus, in a new translation by Butler University Classics professor Chris Bungard
Directed by Bart Simpson
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2014–2015 Season

Year Play Information Details
2015 Crime & Punishment
By Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Adapted and directed by Elaina Artemiev
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2015 Mad Forest
By Caryl Churchill
Directed by William Fisher
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2014 The Water Carriers
Written and directed by Michael Williams, Visiting International Theatre Artist
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2014 The Blizzard
By Alexander Pushkin
Adapted and directed by Elaina Artemiev
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2013–2014 Season

Year Play Information Details
2014 A Soldier’s Tale
Music by Igor Stravinksy, Libretto by C.F. Ramuz
Directed by Owen Schaub
2014 The Two Maples
By Evgeny Shvarts
Directed by Elaina Artemiev
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2014 Terminal
Written by Susan Yankowitz
Directed by William Fisher
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2013 Indiana New Works

Four nights of play readings by Indiana writers or about Indiana
Directed by Wiliam Fisher, Owen Schaub, and Diane Timmerman

Harry Hoosier Speaks by Stephen H. Webb
Spots by Jim Poyser
Cornflower Blue by Andrew Black
Elsie & Frances & Fairies by Tom Horan
Under a Tree at the End of Time by Dan Sherer
Dillinger by David Hoppe
Castle Gardens by Gari Williams
Outside Providence by Matt Benedict
Lightning and Jellyfish by Lou Harry

2013 Romeo & Juliet
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Tim Hard, Christel DeHaan Visiting International Theatre Artist
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2013 Trojan Women
By Euripides
Directed by Michael Bachman, Butler Theatre alum
2013 Galileo
Written by Nic Young and Performed by Tim Hardy, Christel DeHaan Visiting International Theatre Artist
2013 Are There More of You?
Written and performed by Alison Skilbeck

2012–2013 Season

Year Play Information Details
2013 SEVEN: Journeys
By Paula Cizmar, Catherline Filloux, Gail Kriegel, Carol K. Mack, Ruth Margraff, Anna Deavere Smith, and Susan Yankowitz
Directed by William Fisher
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2013 Lunar 2.0
Devised by the company
Conceived and directed by William Fisher
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2013 Pigeons
A new play by Dan Barden
Directed by Diane Timmerman
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2012 Bali Dream
Inspired by A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
Directed by I Nyoman Sedana, 2012 Christel DeHaan Visiting International Artist
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2012 Balinese Spectacular
Special Performance in co-production with the Indianapolis Museum of Art
By I Nyonman Sedana, Ni Wayan Seniasih, Made Georgiana Triwinadi, Nyoman Atheni, Pramasastra Dewi, and Friends
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2011–2012 Season

Year Play Information Details
2012 The Love of Don Perlimplin for Belisa in the Garden   
by Federico Garcia Lorca
Directed by Elaina Artemiev
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2012 Tartuffe 
By Moliere
Directed by William Fisher
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2011 The Priest & the Prostitute (Bhagvadajjukam)
Directed by Kunju Vasudevan, 2012 Christel DeHaan V.I.T.A.
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2011 An Evening of Kahakali
Featuring Christel DeHaan Visiting International Artist Kunju Vasudevan in a performance of classical dance/drama of Kerala India
2011 The Exonerated 
By Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen
Directed by William Fisher, performed by members of Heartland Actors Repertory Theatre

2010–2011 Season

Year Play Information Details
2011 Small Lives/Big Dreams 
Adapted by Anne Bogart and SITI Company from The Cherry Orchard, The Segull, Uncle Vanya, Ivanov and the Three Sisters
by Anton Chekhov
Directed by William Fisher
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2011 As You Like It
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Tim Hardy, Christel DeHaan V.I.T.A.
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2010 Twelfth Night 
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Elaina Artemiev
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2010 Eurydice
By Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Richard J Roberts
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2009–2010 Season

Year Play Information Details
2010 Woyzeck
By Georg Buchner
Directed by Bernardo Ray,Visiting Artist-in Residence
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2010 The Cherry Orchard
By Anton Chekhov
Directed by Elaina Artemiev
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2009 The Merchant of Venice
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Tim Hardy, Artist-In-Residence
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2009 The Caucasian Chalk Circle
By Bertolt Brecht | English Version by Eric Bentley
Directed by Owen Schaub
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2008–2009 Season

Year Play Information Details
2009 Balzaminov’s Wedding
By Alexander Ostrovsky
Directed by Elaina Artemiev
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2009 The Soul Of Ch’ien-Nü Leaves Her Body
By Chêng Teh-hui
Directed by Owen Schaub
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2008 Powered By Poetry! – One Wild And Precious Life
A Spirit & Place Festival Performance
Directed by Melli Hoppe
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2008 Powered By Poetry! – Whirl Of The Divine
A Spirit & Place Festival Performance
Devised and Directed by Diane Timmerman, with Cynthia Pratt, Susan McGuire and Ulf Goebel
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2008 Phaedra Plays – Phaedra’s Love
By Sarah Kane
Directed by John Green
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2008 Phaedra Plays – Phedra
By Jean Racine
Translation by Ted Hughes
Directed by John Green
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2007–2008 Season

Year Play Information Details
2008 Endgame
By Samuel Beckett
Directed by Owen Schaub
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2008 Marriage
By Nikolai Gogol
Directed by Elaina Artemiev
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2007 The Divinity Of Women Project
Conceptualized by Zina Camblin
Devised by Michael Bachman and Zina Camblin
Directed by Michael Bachman
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2007 Lamentations
Devised and Directed by John Green and Diane Timmerman
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2006–2007 Season

Year Play Information Details
2007 The Underpants
By Carl Sternheim
Adapted by Steve Martin
Directed by Constance Macy
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2007 The Misanthrope
By Jean Baptiste Molière
Directed by Owen Schaub
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2006 Two Chekhov Vaudevilles
By Anton Chekhov
Directed by Elaina Artemiev
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2006 The Photographer (Far from the Truth)
By Rob Malasch
Music by Philip Glass
Directed by John Green
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2005–2006 Season

Year Play Information Details
2006 The Two Noble Kinsmen
By William Shakespeare and John Fletcher
Directed by Elaina Artemiev
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2006 The Tamer Tamed
By John Fletcher
Adapted and Directed by John Green
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2005 The Taming of the Shrew
By William Shakespeare
Adapted and Directed by Diane Timmerman
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2005 Aminta
By Torquato Tasso
Translation by Charles Jernigan and Irene Marchegiani Jones
Directed by Alessandro Fabrizi
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2004–2005 Season

Year Play Information Details
2005 The Skriker
By Caryl Churchill
Directed by Rockland Brooks Mers
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2005 Vinegar Tom
By Caryl Churchill
Directed by Owen Schaub
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2004 Top Girls
By Caryl Churchill
Directed by Constance Macy
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2004 A Mouthful Of Birds
By Caryl Churchill and David Lan
Directed by John Green and Melli Hoppe
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2003–2004 Season

Year Play Information Details
2004 The Tragedy of Carmen
Adapted from Bizet’s opera by Peter Brook and Jean-Claude Carriere
Directed by John Green
Musical Direction by James Caraher
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2004 Saint Joan
By George Bernard Shaw
Adapted and Directed by Firenza Guidi
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2003 Luke’s Father and the Sled
By Dan Barden
Directed by Diane Timmerman
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2003 Women of Troy
By Euripides translation by Kenneth McLeish
Directed by John Green and Pretti Vasudevan
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2002–2003 Season

Year Play Information Details
2003 The Dreaming of the Bones
By W.B. Yeats
Directed by Alissa Stamatis and Melli Hoppe
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2003 Hamletmachine
By Heiner Müller
Directed by John Green and Adria Badagnani
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2003 Reverse Psychology
By Charles Ludlam
Directed by Owen Schaub
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2002 Shades of Sam
Five Plays by Samuel Beckett
Directed by John Green and Melli Hoppe
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2002 Blood Wedding
By Federico Garcia Lorca
Translated by James Graham-Luján and Richard L. O’Connel
Directed and Choreographed by Norman Walker
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2001–2002 Season

Year Play Information Details
2002 The Good Woman of Setzuan
By Bertolt Brecht
Directed by Lynne Perkins
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2002 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
By Tom Stoppard
Directed by Rockland Mers
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2001 Anton in Show Business
By Jane Martin
Directed by Rob Johansen
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2001 Hamlet
By William Shakespeare
Adapted and Directed by John Green
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