Title

Happy Savages by Ryan Craig

Creator

Xu, Zhiyue (Direction)

Vogiatzis, Christoforos (Scenography, Costume Design, Lighting Design)

Delatola-Saveri, Danae (Cast)

Elmughrabi, Ameer (Cast)

Oikonomidou, Kleopatra (Cast)

Salama, Hussein (Cast)

Abstract

As the world burns, four people at a dead-end destroy each other, attempting to fulfill a void, futile and self-indulgent vision of happiness. In an ironic image of entrapment and distress, an inherited normative vision of humanity, we oscillate between the raw and macabre, the comic and the absurd. The Theatre Arts Department Senior Production Practicum employs this text by British playwright Ryan Craig to discuss a sense of doom, as the personal mirrors the political, the individual the collective. The characters exhaust their lives, anticipating meaning to occur, desperately afraid of the meaningless.

Keywords

performance,

theatre,

conflict

Subject

Theatre Arts

Date Available

May 23, 2025

Type

Theatre Performance Recording

Course

DR4819 Senior Production Practicum

Course Offering Term

Summer I 2024

Instructor

Drakopoulou, Katerina

Session

Theatre Performance Video

Location

Arts Center Auditorium

Event

Year 2025 | 9th Annual Student Research and Creative Arts Symposium