Past Theatre Productions

2022–2023 Season

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

2021–2022 Season

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2021We 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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2021The King Stag
By Carlo Gozzi
Directed by Elaina Artemiev
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2022Pippin
Music & Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz
Book by Roger O. Hinson
Directed by Emily Ristine Holloway
Choreography by Ramon Flowers
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2022A (re)making project: a new theatre performance from plays by Charles Mee
Directed by William Fisher
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2020–2021 Season

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

2019–2020 Season

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

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

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2018The 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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2018A Midsummer Night’s Dream
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Guest Artist Constance Macy
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2017Stories from Dark Alleys
By Ivan Bunin
Directed by Elaina Artemiev
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2017The Threepenny Opera
By Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill
Directed by William Fisher
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2016–2017 Season

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

2015–2016 Season

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

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

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2014A Soldier’s Tale
Music by Igor Stravinksy, Libretto by C.F. Ramuz
Directed by Owen Schaub
2014The Two Maples
By Evgeny Shvarts
Directed by Elaina Artemiev
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2014Terminal
Written by Susan Yankowitz
Directed by William Fisher
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2013Indiana 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
2013Romeo & Juliet
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Tim Hard, Christel DeHaan Visiting International Theatre Artist
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2013Trojan Women
By Euripides
Directed by Michael Bachman, Butler Theatre alum
2013Galileo
Written by Nic Young and Performed by Tim Hardy, Christel DeHaan Visiting International Theatre Artist
2013Are There More of You?
Written and performed by Alison Skilbeck

2012–2013 Season

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2013SEVEN: 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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2013Lunar 2.0
Devised by the company
Conceived and directed by William Fisher
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2013Pigeons
A new play by Dan Barden
Directed by Diane Timmerman
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2012Bali 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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2012Balinese 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

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

2010–2011 Season

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2011Small 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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2011As You Like It
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Tim Hardy, Christel DeHaan V.I.T.A.
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2010Twelfth Night 
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Elaina Artemiev
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2010Eurydice
By Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Richard J Roberts
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2009–2010 Season

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

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2009Balzaminov’s Wedding
By Alexander Ostrovsky
Directed by Elaina Artemiev
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2009The Soul Of Ch’ien-Nü Leaves Her Body
By Chêng Teh-hui
Directed by Owen Schaub
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2008Powered By Poetry! – One Wild And Precious Life
A Spirit & Place Festival Performance
Directed by Melli Hoppe
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2008Powered 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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2008Phaedra Plays – Phaedra’s Love
By Sarah Kane
Directed by John Green
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2008Phaedra Plays – Phedra
By Jean Racine
Translation by Ted Hughes
Directed by John Green
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2007–2008 Season

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

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

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

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

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2004The 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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2004Saint Joan
By George Bernard Shaw
Adapted and Directed by Firenza Guidi
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2003Luke’s Father and the Sled
By Dan Barden
Directed by Diane Timmerman
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2003Women of Troy
By Euripides translation by Kenneth McLeish
Directed by John Green and Pretti Vasudevan
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2002–2003 Season

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2003The Dreaming of the Bones
By W.B. Yeats
Directed by Alissa Stamatis and Melli Hoppe
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2003Hamletmachine
By Heiner Müller
Directed by John Green and Adria Badagnani
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2003Reverse Psychology
By Charles Ludlam
Directed by Owen Schaub
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2002Shades of Sam
Five Plays by Samuel Beckett
Directed by John Green and Melli Hoppe
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2002Blood 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

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