Current Season: The Seeing Place Theater

For our 10th Season we bring you 10 stories that expose the fight for autonomy. Who controls our well-being? How far will we go to claim our destiny as our own? Through seminal works by Pulitzer Prize winners, Tony winners, Nobel Nominees, and masters of the theatrical canon, we are initiating a deep conversation about what it means to be human, and how these works reflect the trials and tribulations we experience in today's society.

We sure hope you'll join us for our landmark 10th Season and help us create a new conversation to connect with your fellow man. Perhaps, as Gandhi said, we together can be the change we wish to see in the world.

For our 10th Season we explore the theme: Ten stories that expose the fight for autonomy. Who controls our well-being? How far will we go to claim our destiny as our own?


Playing This Season...




		DOG ACT by Liz Duffy Adams TSP Ripple For Change Series January 30 - February 12, 2021 via Zoom and YouTube Directed by Erin Cronican Post-apocalyptic wilderness was never funnier. Follow the adventures of Zetta Stone, a traveling performer, and her companion Dog (a young man undergoing a voluntary species demotion) as they wander through the former northeastern United States. Zetta, Dog and their little troupe are on their way to a gig in China, assuming they can find it...and survive the journey. A theatrical, darkly comic variation on the classic doomsday genre, with five original songs. DONATE HERE to help make this production happen.





		SWEAT by Lynn Nottage TSP Ripple For Change Series February 27 - March 11, 2021 via Zoom and YouTube Directed by Brandon Walker Winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize. Filled with warm humor and tremendous heart, SWEAT tells the story of a group of friends who have spent their lives sharing drinks, secrets, and laughs while working together on the factory floor. But when layoffs and picket lines begin to chip away at their trust, the friends find themselves pitted against each other in a heart-wrenching fight to stay afloat. DONATE HERE to help make this production happen.





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		WIT by Margaret Edson TSP Mainstage POSTPONED until Fall 2021 Directed by Brandon Walker Vivian Bearing, Ph.D., a renowned professor of English who has spent years studying and teaching the brilliant and difficult metaphysical sonnets of John Donne, has been diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer. Her approach to the study of Donne: aggressively probing, intensely rational. But during the course of her illness—and her stint as a prize patient in an experimental chemotherapy program at a major teaching hospital—Vivian comes to reassess her life and her work with a profundity and humor that are transformative both for her and the audience. DONATE HERE to help make this production happen.





		BOY by Anna Ziegler TSP Mainstage POSTPONED until Fall 2021 Directed by Erin Cronican Inspired by a true story, this play explores the tricky terrain of finding love amidst the confusion of sexual identity, and the inextricable bond between a doctor and patient. In the 1960s, a well-intentioned doctor convinces the parents of a male infant to raise their son as a girl after a terrible accident. Two decades later, the repercussions of that choice continue to unfold. DONATE HERE to help make this production happen.



Already Played...





		KEELY AND DU by Jane Martin TSP Ripple For Change Series October 31-November 7, 2020 via Zoom and YouTube Co-Directed by Brandon Walker and Erin Cronican 1994 Nominee for the Pulitzer Prize. From the author of Talking With and Vital Signs, KEELY AND DU is a volatile drama about abortion rights. Du is a right-to-life activist, and Keely is the pregnant rape victim Du is confining to keep her from having an abortion. Through the play these two women find a way to transcend their circumstances and the ideological issues that separate them. This play is being presented as a benefit for Reproductive Health Services of Planned Parenthood of the St Louis Region. RHS is a 501(c)(3) corporation specializing in women’s reproductive health, specifically abortion services. In addition to being the only state-licensed abortion facility in Missouri for many years, RHS is the longest standing non-profit abortion provider in the state of Missouri. The Seeing Place feels it's important to recognize and support reproductive health facilities in "red" states when access, which is constitutionally protected, is being restricted. More info...






		A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM by William Shakespeare TSP Ripple For Change Series August 29-September 4, 2020 via Zoom & YouTube Directed by Brandon Walker and Erin Cronican This play tells the tale of Hermia & Lysander (a lesbian couple) and Helena & Demetrius; four misguided lovers whose escape into the woods lands them in even more trouble, as members of the fairy kingdom decide to use them as veritable pawns in their own love games. One of the most famous of literary love quadrangles, the play is one of Shakespeare's most popular works for the stage and is widely performed across the world. This play is a benefit for The Ali Forney Center, a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting LGBTQ youths from the harms of homelessness and empower them with the tools needed to live independently. More info... DONATE HERE to celebrate this critically-acclaimed production.





		DUTCHMAN by Amiri Baraka TSP Ripple For Change Series July 18-25, 2020 via Zoom & YouTube Directed by Brandon Walker Set on a New York Subway train, DUTCHMAN opens as a young black man, Clay, is interrupted from his thoughts by Lula, a flirtatious and slightly older white woman he smiled at through the windows when the train stopped. Their conversation, which starts as playful, slowly becomes more personal, more cruel, and reveals, from both perspectives, the many political, psychological, and physical conflicts that face Black men in America. More info... DONATE HERE to celebrate this critically-acclaimed production.





		ANIMAL FARM by Brandon Walker TSP Mainstage February 13-23, 2020 Directed by Brandon Walker and Erin Cronican. 75th Anniversary of the publishing of this novella Animal Farm, an allegorical play, tells the story of a group of farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy. More info... DONATE HERE to celebrate this critically-acclaimed production.