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Performance Hopes to Inspire Change
Trinity University Theatre uses innovative style to confront complex issues

What would you do to help someone who was being oppressed? How would you intervene? What steps would you take to make a difference? Trinity University Theatre dares its audiences to confront these questions using a unique, forum-style theatre in the production Theatre for Social Change: On Domestic Abuse. This one-of-a-kind project is a powerful theatrical tool that encourages audiences to get involved in creating social change.

The goal of the Theatre for Social Change project is to start a conversation about domestic abuse, informing the community at large about this form of oppression, providing a safe environment to practice stopping the oppression, and ultimately inspiring change. The stories told by the cast are lifted directly from anonymous community submissions and audience participation in the event is strongly encouraged. The production is directed by Roberto Prestigiacomo, theatre professor at Trinity and the producing artistic director of AtticRep.

Theatre for Social Change: On Domestic Abuse opens the weekend of Sept. 29–Oct. 1 and will continue Oct. 4-7 in the Attic Theater, located in the Ruth Taylor Theater Building on the Trinity campus.

Curtain times are 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 2:30 p.m. Sunday; and 7 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday. Tickets are $12 for adults; $8 for seniors/faculty/staff/alumni, and $6 for students; and can be purchased online or at the theater box office Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Reservations can be made by calling 210-999-8515 or emailing tutheater@trinity.edu. The box office is also open one hour prior to each performance.

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