“The joy of taking risks and staying absolutely in the moment, ” Pearl wrote in an email to The Argus. This means that these five actors will each have to memorize the entire script! The show will play in the CFA Theater from Nov. Something truly exciting about this performance is that, in this production, there will be five actors sharing the role of “Everybody,” the main character, and at the start of each performance they’ll spin a wheel to decide which one gets to play Everybody for that show. Throughout the show, they try to get people in their life to accompany them to death. The faculty department show, “Everybody,” directed by Assistant Professor of Theater Katie Pearl with Visiting Assistant Professor of Theater Erica Wray, is based on the 15th-century play titled “Everyman,” in which the main character has been summoned by Death to die and in the process must give a presentation to God about their life and how they spent it. In addition, Spike Tape’s inaugural season included a musical showcase featuring several student performances and a production of “ Horse Girls, ” directed by Hadassa Garfein ’24 and Vincent Langan ’24. This exciting season follows a packed spring semester, in which theater on campus saw deep, thought-provoking original works like “ Nothing Comes to Mim” by Will Blumberg ’22, “ To Play or Not To Play” by Abby Meyers ’22, and “ The Book of Chrysanthemum” by Laia Comas ’22. This semester, there is a wide variety of theater in store for the Wesleyan community, including the department production of “Everybody” by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins senior thesis productions by Sarah Shapiro ’23, Ryan Natcharian ’23, Michayla Robertson-Pine ’23, and Malaika Fernandes ’23 and four shows produced by Spike Tape, a new student theater organization which debuted in the spring.
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