Thiel Players probe online role-playing in ‘Dark Play, or Stories for Boys’

GREENVILLE, Pa.-- The Thiel Players production of “Dark Play, or Stories for Boys” by Carlos Murillo opens at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 10 at the William A. Robinson Theater.

Additional showtimes are 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 11 and 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 12. Three performances are set for the following weekend. Showtimes are 7 p.m. on Friday, Nov. and Saturday, Nov. 18 and 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 19.

The play is directed by Director of Theatre J.K. Rogers, Ph.D. and assisted by Bailey Stilts ’24. The play focuses on Nick, a brilliant but desperately lonely teen, who finds pleasure in creating fake online personas and toying with strangers. The drama ensues when Nick creates an online dream girl for a stranger who insists on meeting the girl which culminates in catastrophic and thrilling consequences. The play is recommended for those 16 and older as it contains profanity, sexual situations, smoking and mature content.

• Thiel students are admitted for free.
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The William A. Robinson Theater is located behind the William A. Passavant Memorial Center on campus. The Thiel Players have been staging productions for more than five decades.

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