a performance-based research collective at the University of Alabama

CLOSET

Our court shall be a little Academe,
Still and contemplative in living art.

Love’s Labor’s Lost, William Shakespeare

To term a play a “closet drama” suggests restrictions and privacy in the play’s writing and consumption. Join us this season as we make the private side of early modern drama public through plays never intended to see the stage—or, rather, to see the supposedly “unstageable” staged.



2026

NOV

13


2027

FEB

26


2027

APR

9