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The REP exists to engage audiences with frequent and outstanding professional productions of a wide variety of classic, modern, and contemporary plays performed in a wide variety of styles, with a particular emphasis on plays that are distinguished by one or more of the following characteristics:
- considered to be a masterwork of dramatic literature,
- quality of script,
- merit of theme,
- power as a theatrical experience;
Make these professional productions available at low prices so that they are accessible and affordable to everyone regardless of income;
Celebrate and demonstrate the possibility and power of an ensemble of actors trained in the same way and working together over long periods of time, with a particular emphasis on showcasing the range, variety, ability to transform, and capacity to work in many different ways that are the traditional hallmarks of outstanding resident acting companies;
Provide long-term employment security and respectable compensation to outstanding professional stage actors, while affording them, on a regular basis:
- acting challenges and opportunities in excellent professional productions,
- opportunities to meaningfully contribute to actors entering the profession, and
- opportunities to contribute to undergraduate education and the creation of lifelong theatregoers;
Contribute to UD’s curriculum and create life-long theatregoers by:
- presenting plays that are studied, are worthy of study, or which illuminate matters studied in the curriculum;
- offering outstanding courses in Theatre taught by REP actors to students from all academic disciplines that build confidence, poise, and self-esteem in front of groups while expanding individual self-expression and instilling a life-long love of theatre, and by
- making available to courses throughout UD’s Colleges and Departments frequent classroom visits of professional actors to illuminate texts, illustrate ideas, and promote learning in a way unique to live theatre.
