Verge: A Student Arts and Politics Festival
September 1, 2020
Verge is a new student arts and politics festival, created through the first cohort of student lab fellows for other creative and engaged youth across the globe. This festival brought together students interested in the intersection of politics and the arts, … MORE
Walk With Amal
September 22, 2023
Little Amal, a 12-foot puppet of a 10-year-old Syrian refugee, towered above a rustling layer of shining silver safety blankets. Behind the puppet, artists held children’s shoes over the crowd, … MORE
World Theatre Day: Dreams Deferred
March 27, 2017
Groundbreaking at the time, the 1959 Broadway play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry showcased to a wider public the struggles of a poor African-American family in the United States. … MORE
National Theatre of Ghana’s Ten Blocks on the Camino Real
December 10, 2015
Abibigromma, the resident troupe of the National Theatre of Ghana, was in residence in Washington, DC for three days only for an outdoor marketplace production of Ten Blocks on the Camino Real by Tennessee Williams. … MORE
Burning to Tell You
October 11, 2017
“What is it that makes someone so scared of a man with a pen? The reason is truth. Art has to do with revealing the truth.”
-Azar Nafisi, … MORE
Symposiums and Conversations
December 8, 2015
An essential component of The Lab is bringing people together in community and conversation. Through our symposiums we have sought to raise pertinent topics and discuss them with artists, politicians, … MORE
CrossCurrents
March 22, 2019
CrossCurrents is a city-wide biennial performing arts festival that highlights innovative artists from around the world who are harnessing the power of performance to humanize global politics. The CrossCurrents festival features a wide range of work at different stages of development and engages conversations around critical topics with policymakers, … MORE
Residencies
December 7, 2015
The Lab has brought artists to Georgetown University over the past years to share their art, interact with students, and engage in dialogue surrounding performance and politics. … MORE
Flash Acts
March 20, 2019
The Flash Acts festival premiered in October, but is still live on the Flash Acts website here!
This one of a kind virtual performance festival brings together twenty brilliant playwrights from the US and Russia, … MORE
I Pledge Allegiance
June 18, 2018
In July of 2017, The Lab presented the play I Pledge Allegiance, devised and created by Lab Fellow Velani Dibba (SFS ’17), Cristina Ibarra (COL ’17), … MORE
Generation (Wh)Y: Global Voices on Stage
April 1, 2015
Generation (Wh)Y was an intimate live performance that moved through multiple spaces exploring real experiences from global voices and the poetry of everyday life. This immersive theatrical experience of innovative multi-media performances resulted from year-long dialogue and encounters between Georgetown students and youth from Egypt, … MORE
Amrika Chalo (Destination: USA)
January 1, 2015
Written and directed by one of Pakistan’s most celebrated artists, this hilarious send-up of US-Pakistani relations set in the Visa Office at the US Embassy in Islamabad explodes stereotypes through satire. … MORE
Voices Unheard: Syria: The Trojan Women Summit
September 1, 2014
The Lab was scheduled to host this internationally celebrated production of Syria: The Trojan Women, performed by an extraordinary group of women refugees forced to flee their homes in Syria, … MORE
Ping Chong + Company’s Beyond Sacred: Voices of Muslim Identity
December 4, 2015
Beyond Sacred, written by Lab Think Tank member Ping Chong and Sara Zatz, with Ryan Conarro in collaboration with the performers, is an interview-based theatre production exploring the diverse experiences of Muslim communities within New York City. … MORE
Freedom Theatre’s The Island
September 1, 2013
This classic South African apartheid-era drama, inspired by a true story, is set in a prison and revolves around a cellmate who is soon to be released, and another who is serving a life sentence. … MORE
The Race, 2020
September 8, 2020
A Virtual Performance Event Presented by the Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics, Georgetown University’s Theater and Performance Studies Program and Sojourn Theatre
As we hurtle toward what many are calling the most important election in living memory, … MORE
The Great Work Begins: Revisiting Angels in America During a Pandemic
This special program of performance and discussion combines scenes performed by leading professional actors from Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning two-part epic play Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes with insights from experts in the medical, … MORE
As Far As My Fingertips Take Me
April 1, 2017
In 2016, Tania El Khoury commissioned musician and street artist Basel Zaraa, who was born a refugee in Syria, to record a rap song inspired by the journey his sisters made from Damascus to Sweden. … MORE
Dominio Público
December 11, 2015
In a public square, the audience, wearing headphones, moves through the space answering simple questions with wordless gestures. As the performance evolves, Dominio Público becomes at once a three-dimensional mapping of societal structures and an embodied exploration of individual agency and collective power. … MORE
Partner Festivals
December 6, 2015
Over the last 10 years, The Lab has contributed to a number of Festivals in partner with other organizations. Read more about our inter-organizational work and participation below. … MORE
Laterna Magika’s Anticodes
December 1, 2013
Laterna Magika’s classic and typical use of film footage is replaced in Anticodes by projection and sounds from live sources. The production introduced real-time tracking to Laterna Magika, … MORE
