Spring 2018 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.

Saturday, January 20 at 6:30 p.m.

YERMA

By Simon Stone, after Federico Garcia Lorca

Recorded live on stage at the Young Vic Theatre in London.
$10 General admission; free for ECU students.

The incredible Billie Piper (Penny Dreadful) returns in her Evening Standard Best Actress award-winning role.

A young woman is driven to the unthinkable by her desperate desire to have a child in Simon Stone’s radical production of Lorca’s achingly powerful masterpiece. The unmissable theatre phenomenon sold out at the Young Vic and critics call it "an extraordinary theatrical triumph" (The Times) and "stunning, searing, unmissable" (Mail on Sunday). Billie Piper’s lead performance is described as "spellbinding" (The Evening Standard), "astonishing" (iNews) and "devastatingly powerful" (The Daily Telegraph).

Set in contemporary London, Piper’s portrayal of a woman in her thirties desperate to conceive builds with elemental force to a staggering, shocking, climax.

For mature audiences. Please note that this performance of Yerma includes strobe lighting and includes strong language. 

Friday, February 2 at 4:00 p.m.

NERUDA

Directed by Pablo Larrain.
In Spanish, with English subtitles
Free and open to the public..

A determined police inspector (Gael García Bernal) searches for Chilean poet Pablo Neruda (Luis Gnecco) after he goes into hiding in 1948.

Friday, February 9 at 4:00 p.m.

THE BLACK MONK

Directed by Kama Ginkas, based on the short story by Anton Chekhov

In Russian, with English subtitles.
Free and open to the public.
A philosophy student Andrey Vasil'ich Kovrin. On the verge of a nervous breakdown, Kovrin decides to visit his childhood friend Tanya Pesotsky at the estate of her father. As he and Tanya develop a relationsship and eventually marry, a black monk of legend begins appearing to Kovrin in visions. Though these hallucinations at first imbue the young man with joy and energy, they eventually lead to his ruin.

Friday, February 16 at 4:00 p.m.

NISE

Directed by Robert Berliner
In Portuguese, with English subtitles.
Free and open to the public.

Come to the Estep at 3:00 p.m. for a panel discussion and Q&A with ECU faculty on the subject of art therapy.


A Brazilian psychiatrist in the 1950s rejects electroshock therapy to treat schizophrenia and encourages her patients to create art. Based on a true story.

Wednesday, February 21 at 6:30 p.m.

YOUNG MARX

By Richard Bean and Clive Coleman

Recorded live on stage at the Bridge Theatre in London.

$10 General admission; free for ECU Students.

Come to the Estep at 9:30 and 11:00 on Tuesday, February 20th for "The Spectre of Marx: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Marxism, Its Origins, and Its Ghostly Presence in Our Contemporary World." Free and open to the public.

Rory Kinnear (Penny Dreadful) is Marx and Oliver Chris (Twelfth Night) is Engels, in this new comedy written by Richard Bean and Clive Coleman.

Recorded live atThe Bridge Theatre, London, the production  is directed by Nicholas Hytner and reunites the creative team behind Broadway and West End hit comedy One Man, Two Guvnors. 

1850, and Europe’s most feared terrorist is hiding in Dean Street, Soho. Broke, restless and horny, the thirty-two-year-old revolutionary is a frothing combination of intellectual brilliance, invective, satiric wit, and child-like emotional illiteracy.

Creditors, spies, rival revolutionary factions and prospective seducers of his beautiful wife all circle like vultures. His writing blocked, his marriage dying, his friend Engels in despair at his wasted genius, his only hope is a job on the railway.

But there’s still no one in the capital who can show you a better night on the piss than Karl Heinrich Marx. 

Saturday, April 28 at 7:00 p.m.

FOLLIES

Book by James Goldman; Music and Lyrics by Steven Sondheim
Recorded live at the Olivier Theatre in London.
$10 General admission; $5 for ECU students.

Come at 6:00 p.m. for dinner with ECU Showtime's Singing Waiters! $25 dinner reservations include tickets to the production. All profits to benefit ECU Showtime.

Stephen Sondheim’s legendary musical is staged for the first time at the National Theatre.

New York, 1971. There’s a party on the stage of the Weismann Theatre. Tomorrow the iconic building will be demolished. Thirty years after their final performance, the Follies girls gather to have a few drinks, sing a few songs and lie about themselves.

Tracie Bennett, Janie Dee and Imelda Staunton play the magnificent Follies in this dazzling new production. Featuring a cast of 37 and an orchestra of 21, it’s directed by Olivier Award-winner Dominic Cooke. Previous work by Academy-, Olivier-, Tony-, and Grammy-award winner Steven Sondheim  includes Sweeney Todd and Into the Woods.

Please note that this performance of Follies includes strobe lighting.

Friday, May 4 at 6:30 p.m.

WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?

By Edward Albee
Recorded live at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London.
$10 general admission; $5 for ECU students.

Sonia Friedman Productions present Imelda Staunton (Gypsy, Vera Drake, the Harry Potter films); Conleth Hill (Game Of Thrones, The Producers); Luke Treadaway (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) and Imogen Poots (Jane Eyre) in James Macdonald’s new production of Edward Albee’s landmark play, broadcast live to cinemas from the Harold Pinter Theatre, London.

In the early hours of the morning on the campus of an American college, Martha, much to her husband George’s displeasure, has invited the new professor and his wife to their home for some after-party drinks. As the alcohol flows and dawn approaches, the young couple are drawn into George and Martha’s toxic games until the evening reaches its climax in a moment of devastating truth-telling.

For mature audiences.