Name: Beyond Therapy Directed by Lulu Royce
Start: 2025-04-19T20:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-04-20T21:00:00-04:00
Location: The Dance Complex

Follow Prudence, Bruce, their therapists, and a jealous lover or two through an exploration of finding love in the modern world.
About this Event

About Beyond Therapy:

Beyond Therapy is a play written by Christopher Durang, and directed by Lulu Royce, a Junior Acting major at Emerson College. Beyond Therapy follows Prudence, Bruce, their therapists, and a jealous lover or two through an exploration of finding love in the modern world and rethinking normalcy whilst drowned in insanity.

Tickets go on sale Friday, April 11, for performances on April 19 at 8pm and April 20 at 7pm.

Director's note:

"This show is HILARIOUS! All we need is the funding to make it happen. Any contribution is one step further to creating this absurdly magical, wildly hilarious world that we know you’ll love. Click here to make a contribution to production-related costs.

We laugh at the things we relate the most closely to. I invite the people who come see this show, not to forget the happenings of the world around them, but rather laugh at the absurdity that functions within it. In a world steeped in excessive hate, pain, and tragedy; the way in which escapism is used, is often held to the same standard as ignorance. With this show, it’s my goal to find that the hilarity comes not as an escape but rather a manifestation of said pain through farce! We’ll build a world in which catharsis is the only true escape. The humor of this show lies in its truth; as it does in all comedy. I think now, more than ever, a play about learning how to manage the insanity that lives within all of us, is extremely potent. The only thing we have control over is ourselves, afterall. This show is as entirely self aware as it is hilarious. I invite you all to laugh with me! It’s all really laughable, isn’t it? I want to push boundaries literally and figuratively. Every medium of art. Every level of feeling. Every color in the wheel, all on that stage. This show is about shared experiences. The psychology of love and relationships, something we’re all finding solace in now more than ever, all through the lens of absurdity. It’s so real, it’s hilarious. I believe that that is ever-relevant and entirely present with the world in which we function today."

Lulu Royce directed Fun Home this past Spring through MTAG. She is also the Co-Artistic Director of BlueJay Theater Collective, an organization that mounted another production she directed last fall, Dog Sees God, for which she received an EVVY for Outstanding Direction for Stage.