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2025 Free Artist Mini Subscription: Season 34!

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An exploration of when to speak and when to listen.

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FULL COLOR (only one option available now)

A world premiere by Tatiana Christian, Chris Curlett, Courtney Dilmore, Dee-Dee Darby-Duffin, Bijan Hosseini, Tito Livas, Iris Salazar, and Darry Stamp in the Studio Theatre at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center

KILO⚡️WAT (only one option available now)

A world premiere by Aaron Asano Swenson, a co-production with UtahPresents as part of the Stage Door Series at Kingsbury Hall

THE BEATRIX POTTER DEFENSE SOCIETY (only one option available now)

A world premiere by Janine Sobeck Knigton in the Studio Theatre at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center

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A WORLD PREMIERE BY AARON ASANO SWENSON

A CO-PRODUCTION WITH UTAHPRESENTS AS PART OF THE STAGE DOOR SERIES AT KINGSBURY HALL

KILO-WAT explores the life and legacy of point guard Wat “Kilo-Wat” Misaka, who led the University of Utah men’s basketball team to the 1944 NCAA Championship at the height of World War II, when persons of Japanese descent from California, Washington, and Oregon were incarcerated in camps such as Topaz.

As residents of Utah, the Misaka family was spared incarceration.

Immediately following the Championship, Wat was drafted into the U.S. Army and, after the war ended, was assigned to interview survivors of the atomic bombing in Hiroshima.

When he returned home, he led the team to the 1947 NIT Championship, completed his degree in mechanical engineering, and was drafted by the New York Knicks, breaking the color barrier in professional basketball.

KILO-WAT explores what it means to make history within history.

The University of Utah retired Wat Misaka’s number 20 in 2022.

Also available as part of the Stage door Series, 3+ Show, or Golden Ticket packages at UtahPresents.

Playwright: Aaron Asano Swenson
Actor: Bryan Kido
Director: Jerry Rapier
Lighting Designer: David McKain
Projections Designer: Aaron Asano Swenson
Scenic Designer: Janice Chan
Sound Designer: Cheryl Ann Cluff
Stage Manager: Maisie Bunker Nelson
Scenic Builder: David Knoell

A WORLD PREMIERE BY JANINE SOBECK KNIGHTON

THE BEATRIX POTTER DEFENSE SOCIETY explores the early life of Beatrix Potter. And now you’re thinking of Peter Rabbit. As anyone would.

But Beatrix Potter was much more than Peter Rabbit. She was a literary subversive, employing the interplay between the wild and domestic worlds to help her worldwide readership view and interact with the natural world differently.

Meet the Beatrix Potter you didn’t know you didn’t know.

Much of her story lies in the journal where she sketched the artwork that would become synonymous with her name. But her real story lives in the coded text accompanying those sketches, coded text that chronicles both her discovery and harnessing of her personal power, anathema to Victorian gender norms.

Although much is made historically of how Beatrix’s connection to the vicar Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley enhanced her writing career, there are also hints that his wife Edith was Beatrix’s true guide. Yet it’s virtually impossible to find information about her. It’s as if she’s been erased.

THE BEATRIX POTTER DEFENSE SOCIETY explores that erasure in an attempt to crack the code of how Edith and Beatrix may have set each other on anarchic-for-the-times journeys of artistic independence.

Playwright: Janine Sobeck Knighton
Actors: TBA
Director: Cheryl Ann Cluff
Costume Designer: Victoria Bird
Lighting Designer: Emma Belnap
Projections Designer: Daniel Charon
Scenic Designer: Janice Chan
Sound Designer: Cheryl Ann Cluff
Stage Manager: Taylor Wallace
Scenic Builder & Electrician: David Knoell

FULL COLOR and THE BEATRIX POTTER DEFENSE SOCIETY will serve high school students in grades 11-12—and KILO⚡️WAT will serve also serve middle and high school students in grades 7-12—with free student matinees via our A Week With A Play program, wherein students read a play, see that play, and then discuss it with the playwright(s). If you would like your students to attend,  please email Sharah Meservy, our Education Coordinator, today!

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