‘Fifty Boxes of Earth’ at the Wagner New Play Festival – KPBS

Promotional photo for the play "50 Boxes of Earth," courtesy of UCSD Theatre + Dance. May 2, 2022: 7 PMMay 6, 2022: 7:30 PMMay 7, 2022: 7:30 PMMay 11, 2022: 7:30 PMMay 12, 2022: 7:30 PMMay 14, 2022: 7:30 PM

Theodore and Adele Shank Theatre

$10 $20

The Wagner New Play Festival is an annual festival of new works by MFA playwrights, in collaboration with MFA/PhD directors, actors, designers, stage managers, and dramaturges.

About "Fifty Boxes of Earth": Q imports earth from their homeland to grow peculiar plants in a community garden, cultivating a little plot of home in this new land. Jon, the community garden manager, doesnt trust this mysterious immigrant or their foreign dirt. But much to his terror, Jons eleven-year-old daughter is intractably drawn to the enigmatic Q and their unearthly garden. A creative response to Bram Stokers Dracula, Fifty Boxes of Earth asks us to consider the heavy costs of leaving a home to put down new roots. By Ankita Raturi MFA '23 and directed by Cambria Herrera MFA '23

ShowtimesPreviewMonday, May 2 at 7 p.m.ShowingsFriday, May 6 at 7:30 p.m.Wdnesday, May 11 at 7:30 p.m.Thursday, May 12 at 7:30 p.m.Friday, May 14 at 7:30 p.m.Satuday, May 7 at 2 p.m.

Location | Theodore and Adele Shank Theatre

Get tickets here!UCSD Student tickets: $10UCSD Faculty and Staff tickets: $15General Admission tickets: $20

For more information, please visit theatre.ucsd.edu/season/wnpf22/fifty-boxes-of-earth or call (858) 534-2230.

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