Frankenstein

Thursday, October 27th at 7:30 p.m. in the Raymond J. Estep Multimedia Center at East Central University. General admission $10, $5 for ECU Students. Click here for more information for this recorded-live Royal National Theatre production, directed by Danny Boyle and starring Jonny Lee Miller as Victor Frankenstein and Benedict Cumberbatch as the Creature.

This production contains scenes of sexual nature and violence and is not recommended for children.

Come early to witness an Honors Present the Sciences: Humanities vs. The Sciences Iron Cage Match, pitting Dr. Carl Gilbert, Dean of ECU's College of Health and Sciences, and Dr. Ken Andrews, Chair of ECU's Department of Biology, against Dr. Jennifer McMahon and Dr. Joshua Grasso, of ECU's Department of English and Languages, in a no-holds-barred discussion of contemporary biological research that would give Dr. Frankenstein chills.

When modern science is capable of such marvels, why should students of today spend time in Humanities courses discussing works of fantasy written hundreds of years ago?

The Iron Cage Match will begin in the Estep at 6:00 (new time) and is free and open to the public.

Hangmen

Monday, August 29th at 7:30 p.m. in the Raymond J. Estep Multimedia Center at East Central University. General admission $10, $5 for ECU Students. Click here for more information about this Royal Court Theatre production, which won 2016 Olivier Awards for Best New Play and Best Set Design.


Come at 6:30 to hear ECU professor of political and legal studies Dr. Christine Pappas give a talk on the death penalty in Oklahoma entitled “Oklahoma’s Legacy of Tinkering with the Machinery of Death.”

Fall 2016 Schedule

All films will be screened in the Raymond J. Estep Multimedia Center located inside the Bill S. Cole University Center (near the corner of E. 13th Street and South Francis) on the campus of East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma.

Tickets are available at the door for $10 per person or $5 for students (with ID) unless otherwise noted.

Monday, August 29th at 7:30 pm 
HANGMEN
by Martin McDonagh

Following a sell-out run at London’s Royal Court Theatre, Olivier and Academy Award® winner Martin McDonagh (The Pillowman, The Cripple of Inishmaan, In Bruges) returns to the West End with Matthew Dunster’s award-winning production of his deeply funny new play Hangmen, winner of the 2016 Olivier Award for Best New Play and Best Set Design.

In his small pub in the northern English town of Oldham, Harry (David Morrissey – The Walking Dead, State of Play) is something of a local celebrity. But what's the second-best hangman in England to do on the day they've abolished hanging?

Among the cub reporters and pub regulars dying to hear Harry’s reaction to the news, his old assistant Syd (Andy Nyman – Peaky Blinders, Death at a Funeral) and the peculiar Mooney (Johnny Flynn – Clouds of Sils Maria) lurk with very different motives for their visit.

Before the screening of "Hangmen," at 6:30, Dr. Christine Pappas, ECU professor of political and legal studies, will give a talk on the death penalty in Oklahoma entitled “Oklahoma’s Legacy of Tinkering with the Machinery of Death.” The talk is free and open to the public.

Thursday, October 27th at 7:30 pm

FRANKENSTEIN
by Nick Dear, based on the novel by Mary Shelley

Directed by Academy Award®-winner Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire, Steve Jobs), this thrilling production features Benedict Cumberbatch (BBC’s Sherlock, The Imitation Game) as Victor Frankenstein and Jonny Lee Miller (CBS’s Elementary, Trainspotting) as his creation (in the Spring of 2017, we expect to show a version in which Cumberbatch and Miller switch roles).

The production was a sell-out hit at the National Theatre in 2011, and the broadcast has since become an international sensation, experienced by over half a million people in cinemas around the world.

Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein’s bewildered Creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker. Meeting with cruelty wherever he goes, the friendless Creature, increasingly desperate and vengeful, determines to track down his creator and strike a terrifying deal.

Urgent concerns of scientific responsibility, parental neglect, cognitive development and the nature of good and evil are embedded within this thrilling and deeply disturbing classic gothic tale.

Contains scenes of a sexual nature and violence. Not recommended for children.

Before the screening of "Frankenstein," at 6:00, Dr. Carl Gilbert, Dean of ECU's College of Health and Sciences, will participate in a "Humanities vs. Sciences Iron Cage Match" with the Chair of ECU's Biology Department, Dr. Ken Andrews, and Drs. Jennifer McMahon and Joshua Grasso, professors in ECU's English and Languages Department. The Iron Cage Match is free and open to the public.

Wednesday, November 16th at 2 pm

HAMLET
by William Shakespeare

Academy Award® nominee Benedict Cumberbatch (BBC’s Sherlock, The Imitation Game) takes on the title role of Shakespeare’s great tragedy.

Directed by Lyndsey Turner (Posh, Chimerica) and produced by Sonia Friedman Productions, the original 2015 broadcast was experienced by over half a million people worldwide.

As a country arms itself for war, a family tears itself apart. Forced to avenge his father’s death but paralyzed by the task ahead, Hamlet rages against the impossibility of his predicament, threatening both his sanity and the security of the state. 

Tuesday, November 29th at 7:30 pm

DEEP BLUE SEA
by Terence Rattigan

A flat in Ladbroke Grove, West London. 1952.

When Hester Collyer is found by her neighbours in the aftermath of a failed suicide attempt, the story of her tempestuous affair with a former RAF pilot and the breakdown of her marriage to a High Court judge begins to emerge. With it comes a portrait of need, loneliness and long-repressed passion.

Behind the fragile veneer of post-war civility burns a brutal sense of loss and longing.

Friday, December 16th at 7:00 pm

THE THREEPENNY OPERA
By Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, in collaboration with Elisabeth Hauptmann in a new adaptation by Simon Stephens.



Mack the Knife is back in town.

A darkly comic new take on Brecht and Weill’s raucous musical recorded live on the stage of the National Theatre.

London scrubs up for the coronation. The thieves are on the make, the whores on the pull, the police cutting deals to keep it all out of sight. Mr and Mrs Peachum are looking forward to a bumper day in the beggary business, but their daughter didn’t come home last night and it’s all about to kick off …

With Olivier Award-winner Rory Kinnear (Hamlet, Othello, James Bond), as Macheath alongside Rosalie Craig (As You Like It, My Family and other Animals) as Polly Peachum and Haydn Gwynne (The Windsors, Drop the Dead Donkey) as Mrs Peachum.

This bold, anarchic production is brought to you by a creative powerhouse; adapted by Simon Stephens, (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time), and directed by Rufus Norris, (Everyman, London Road).

Contains scenes of a sexual nature, violence and filthy language. Not recommended for children.

Wednesday, December 21st at 2:00 pm

WAR HORSE
Based on the beloved novel by Michael Morpurgo, adapted by Nick Stafford

Since its first performance at the National Theatre in 2007, War Horse has become an international smash hit, capturing the imagination of millions of people around the world.

Based on Michael Morpurgo’s novel and adapted for the stage by Nick Stafford, War Horse takes audiences on an extraordinary journey from the fields of rural Devon to the trenches of First World War France. Filled with stirring music and songs, this powerfully moving and imaginative drama is a show of phenomenal inventiveness. At its heart are astonishing life-size puppets by South Africa’s Handspring Puppet Company, who bring breathing, galloping, charging horses to thrilling life on stage.