A play that is perhaps more relevant today than when it was first produced, Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me explores the daily crises of three hostages, an Englishman, an Irishman and an American, who are imprisoned in the Middle East. Dreamwell first brought this show to Iowa City audiences in 1998. The original cast and director return to re-create one of our finest shows.

Blending vivid poetic language and scintillating humor, this play tells the tale of two women whose love for each other is complicated and questioned by the news of a tragedy.

This classic play chronicles the shameless, voracious pursuit of total pleasure and sensual self-fulfillment by Baal, a young artist. His companionship with Ekart, a complex love-hate relationship that is at times erotic, nurturing, violent, and indifferent, explores the consequences of hedonism.

The play chronicles the lives of Alison and Liza as they navigate the channels of motherhood while holding on to their careers. Through monologues, they take a revealing and comedic look at the balancing act of promise and compromise. Both women explore the idea of who they think they are, who they want to be, and ultimately, who they become as individuals, as mothers, and as professionals. They learn that sometimes we become people we never intended to be, but in the end that is better than we ever could have predicted.

Fortinbras, a hilarious sequel to Shakespeare’s immortal tragedy Hamlet, begins immediately after Hamlet’s death. When young Fortinbras of Norway and his army march into Elsinore, he finds the entire royal family dead, and immediately sets about the first order of business for any new leader – lying to the public. The story he concocts to fortify his claim to the throne is going pretty well, too – until the ghosts of Hamlet, Ophelia, Polonius, and more start to appear.