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School of Theatre & Dance

College of Design, Art & Performance

Honors Students Centerstage: The Money Tower

TheatreUSF Honors Program presents The Money Tower.

TheatreUSF presents the 2014 Theatre Honors Production, The Money Tower, based on the experimental theatre of the The Living Theatre from the 1970s.

Dates: April 21 & 22, 2014, TAR 120

A man wearing an all-white suit stands in front of a tower-like structure while holding a cane. Two characters dressed in black with a pair of dummies on their shoulders stand on either side of the man in the white suit.
A girl wearing all black is crouched on her hands and knees as if she were crawling. She is looking at the floor.
Six characters lay on the ground in a circle, all dressed in black, with arms outstretched toward coins scattered in the middle of the circle.
Eight characters stand in a clump with a tower structure in the background. The characters are all wearing black clothes, with two characters having a pair of dummies on their shoulders, and all of the characters are looking toward the floor.
A character is silhouetted in green light in front of the tower structure, with other characters laying on the floor around her in fetal position.
A man wearing an all-white suit stands in front of a tower-like structure while holding a cane. Two characters wearing sunglasses and all-black attire are gesturing for a third character to stop by holding up their gloved right hand, while the third character is turned toward these two characters with her arms over her head in an 鈥淴鈥� formation.

"To call into question who we are to each other in the social environment of the theatre, to undo the knots that lead to misery, to spread ourselves across the public's table like platters at a banquet, to set ourselves in motion like a vortex that pulls the spectator into action, to fire the body's secret engines, to pass through the prism and come out a rainbow, to insist that what happens in the jails matters, to cry "Not in my name!" at the hour of execution, to move from the theatre to the street and from the street to the theatre. This is what The Living Theatre does today. It is what it has always done."

-- Julian Beck