The Dragon

All listed prices include fees and reflect the final amount due at checkout. Student tickets require a valid student ID at entry. Senior tickets are available for guests aged 65 and older.

Cast: Gabriel Alejandro, Raghad Almakhlouf, Surasree Das, Ryan Sellers, Fran Tapia

Terrorized by a wicked dragon, a town gets a chance for freedom with the arrival of a confident and cocky Sir Lancelot (yes, distantly related). Sounds simple enough, right? On the surface a supernatural fairytale, this subversive play written (and banned) in Stalinist Russia offers a scorching satire of authoritarian regimes and the mechanisms they use to control people. In a sharp new adaptation centering immigrant actors, The Dragon is a witty allegory that exposes the dangers of tyranny — and would be even more fun if it were not so disturbingly relevant.

In a radical new adaptation, this production collides the original fairytale story with the contemporary realities of migrant detention. The result: an altogether new story about the freedom of the human spirit, which cannot be contained.

Run time: 2 hours including a 15-min intermission