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2025-26 Season:

Rounding Home

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But this idea of “rounding home,” with apologies to baseball purists, implies that home plate might not necessarily be the endpoint. We are interested in returning home and also thinking about ways forward, new ways of looking at ourselves in these challenging and troubling times

- Joseph Megel, Artistic Director

Coming Up Next:

NOV 5-6

Translation Festival

In partnership with Dramatic Art and The Mercurian, Adam Versényi, Curator

October 16-18 at 7:30pm

Performed at the Center for Dramatic Art

This is the third Translation Festival in which the Process Series has joined Dramatic Art, The Mercurian , and Adam Versényi in exploring new theatrical translations as new works for the stage. In Translation Festival 2025 we encounter a new play from the Catalan (Flood Zone), from the Latvian (Ladies), from the Indonesian (Oh), and finally, from ancient Greek, a new queer take on The Bacchae.

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Oct 16-18

Photo by David Ruano

2025-26 Season

NOV 5-6

Blood Earth Water

Written and Performed by Aviva Neff

September 19-20 at 7:30 pm

At Swain Hall Black Box Theatre

Blood Earth Water unites historical language, physical theatre, and autobiography to depict the lush and complicated experience of being mixed-Black in contemporary America. 

Sep 19-20

Photo by Drea Kirby

NOV 5-6

Translation Festival

In partnership with Dramatic Art and The Mercurian, Adam Versényi, Curator

October 16-18 at 7:30pm

Performed at the Center for Dramatic Art

This is the third Translation Festival in which the Process Series has joined Dramatic Art, The Mercurian , and Adam Versényi in exploring new theatrical translations as new works for the stage. In Translation Festival 2025 we encounter a new play from the Catalan (Flood Zone), from the Latvian (Ladies), from the Indonesian (Oh), and finally, from ancient Greek, a new queer take on The Bacchae.

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Oct 16-18

Photo by David Ruano

The Love Lives of Ee and Goo 

A New Play by Guillermo Reyes

November 7-8 at 7:30pm

At Swain Hall Black Box Theatre

Guillermo Reyes returns to work again with director Joseph Megel on a new play, this one following a queer/straight love story tracking the development of an unusual friendship between two young men against the background of the L.A. riots in the spring of 1992.

Nov 7-8

Written and performed by Adam Versényi

February 20-21 at 7:30pm

At Swain Hall Black Box Theatre

April 2024, Adam Versényi and his sister, Andrea, take their 94-year-old mother, Dinny, to Switzerland for medically assisted death. This is the story of that journey.

An Empty Fullness: Meditation on Death & Life

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Feb 20-21

Murmuration

An installation by Jonathon Kirk and Lee Weisert

March 20-22 at 7:30pm

At the Coker Arboretum at UNC- Chapel Hill

Murmuration consists of one hundred wirelessly controlled robotic woodblocks mounted on trees in a large, forested area. A wide variety of textures, waves, and gestures reminiscent of natural sound sources is generated in real time by a computer program and sent to the instruments via radio transmission

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March 20-22

Photo by Jonathon Kirk

The Honeywagon

A new work by Joy Goodwin

April 10-11 7:30 pm

At Swain Hall Black Box Theatre

Over the course of three insane days on a film set, The Honeywagon uses comedy to explore the moment-to-moment decision-making of a girl-boss in a man’s world.

April 10-11

Ahkelo's Walk

April 17-18 7:30 pm

At Swain Hall Black Box Theatre

This multilayered correspondence explores how time is neither energy nor matter. It addresses past and future, with handwritten text and images projected on screens surrounding the stage like celestial bodies in orbit.

By artist Annette Lawrence and poet Nikky Finney

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April 17-18

More About Our Sponsors:

 

Our 18th season is based in the Department of Communication, supported by StreetSigns Center for Literature and Performance, and is co-sponsored by The College of Arts and Sciences, Institute for the Arts and Humanities, and these UNC Departments and Programs: American Studies, Art and Art History, Communication, Creative Writing, Dramatic Art, English and Comparative Literature, Music, and Philosophy.

Our 18th season is based in the Department of Communication and supported by StreetSigns Center for Literature and Performance.

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