UNTIL opening
UNTIL opening
WHY THIS SHOW?
WHY THIS SHOW?
Our selection of Jennifer Haley's The Nether for the winter season reflects the careful and intentional approach we take when choosing work for our students and audiences.
Paired with our fall Shakespeare comedy, The Nether extends the range of genre, form, and production demands we aim to explore each academic year. We believe our audiences will find the questions Haley raises about privacy, desire, consent, and the boundaries of the permissible to be deeply relevant.
Our selection of Jennifer Haley's The Nether for the winter season reflects the careful and intentional approach we take when choosing work for our students and audiences.
Paired with our fall Shakespeare comedy, The Nether extends the range of genre, form, and production demands we aim to explore each academic year. We believe our audiences will find the questions Haley raises about privacy, desire, consent, and the boundaries of the permissible to be deeply relevant
We acknowledge that this theatre and the university that holds it stand on the traditional territories of the Attawandaron (also known as the Neutral), Anishinaabeg, and Haudenosaunee peoples. Our main campus is in Block 2 of the Haldimand Tract, land promised in 1784 by the British Crown to the Haudenosaunee of the Grand River in recognition of their alliance during the American Revolution.
This territory, which includes six miles on either side of the Grand River, is governed by the Dish with One Spoon Wampum, an agreement that teaches that the land is a shared dish from which we all eat, and that we carry collective responsibilities: to take only what we need, to ensure there is enough for others, and to keep the dish clean for those who come after us. It is an agreement rooted in care, reciprocity, and stewardship.
Gathering here in this theatre, on this land, within this agreement, means recognizing that welcome comes with responsibility. It asks us to consider how we move through shared spaces, how we care for one another, and how the systems we build shape access, safety, and belonging as equal partners.
We acknowledge that this theatre and the university that holds it stand on the traditional territories of the Attawandaron (also known as the Neutral), Anishinaabeg, and Haudenosaunee peoples. Our main campus is in Block 2 of the Haldimand Tract, land promised in 1784 by the British Crown to the Haudenosaunee of the Grand River in recognition of their alliance during the American Revolution.
This territory, which includes six miles on either side of the Grand River, is governed by the Dish with One Spoon Wampum, an agreement that teaches that the land is a shared dish from which we all eat, and that we carry collective responsibilities: to take only what we need, to ensure there is enough for others, and to keep the dish clean for those who come after us. It is an agreement rooted in care, reciprocity, and stewardship.
Gathering here in this theatre, on this land, within this agreement, means recognizing that welcome comes with responsibility. It asks us to consider how we move through shared spaces, how we care for one another, and how the systems we build shape access, safety, and belonging as equal partners.
