Eleemosynary
Sensitive and probing, this masterful play examines the subtle and often perilous relationship between three remarkable women: a young girl, her mother, and her grandmother.
2018–2019 CPE Season
The Center for Performance Experiment is located at 718 Devine Street. Ticket prices vary and can be purchased at the door or online.
The Revolutionists
History becomes “herstory” as a disparate band of courageous women find themselves working together in a shared fight for liberté, égalité, and sororité during the French Revolution. This funny, fresh and wholly irreverent comedy by award-winning playwright Lauren Gunderson brings the past into sharply relevant focus in a story that boldly explores how art and activism can intersect to make history.
Waiting for Godot
Beckett’s existential masterwork is at once hilarious and profoundly moving in its portrayal of two vagabonds, Vladimir and Estragon, who spend their days together questioning, theorizing, arguing, laughing, and consoling…all while eternally awaiting the arrival of the enigmatic figure Godot.
Aphra Behn: wanton woman of wit!
Set against the backdrop of lawless 1660s London, Aphra Behn – wanton woman of wit! charts the trials and tribulations of women’s equality in a witty, fast-moving theatrical style.