Directed by Veronica Santoyo, associate teaching professor of theatre, with original dramaturgy by Diana Grisanti, assistant professor of playwriting, Balls Balls Balls is a new work by award-winning playwright Alice Tuan commissioned by Ball State’s Department of Theatre and Dance.
Performances will take place Feb. 6–8 and Feb. 13–14 at 7:30 p.m., with a matinee performance at 2:30 p.m. on Feb. 14, in Room 154 of the Oakwood Building, located at 2501 Oakwood Ave. in Muncie. Tickets are available through the College of Fine Arts Box Office located at Sursa Performance Hall, in person, by phone at 765-285-8749, or online.
It's the day of The Big Game, and the citizenry is aflutter. The football bros are hungry for victory, the ESL kids are hungry for knowledge, and the hunger strikers are just hungry. Meanwhile, Nubu, a newcomer to our world, considers the meaning of life. When The Big Game gets cancelled, a group of intrepid weirdos decides to throw an epic DIY costume party—a ball! Balls Balls Balls is a strange and exuberant new work that asks, “Can you imagine a world where we all make bread and break bread together?”
Written by award-winning playwright Alice Tuan, Balls Balls Balls was commissioned by Ball State Department of Theatre and Dance and will be presented as an on-book reading with choreography. Each performance will be followed by a talkback with the playwright and production team, offering audiences an opportunity to engage with the work as part of its ongoing development.
“Balls Balls Balls is a whirling dervish of a play. It's ecstatic and meditative, earnest and arch. It's also very fun and very new—like pages-warm-from-the-printer new,” said Ms. Grisanti. “A script is, in Alice Tuan’s words, ‘a proposal of a world.’ Let’s imagine this new world together. Let’s, if I may, have a ball.”
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