Past Productions

By Carlos Acevedo based on a play by Jim Hatherley

Theater Arts class – Lent Prayer Service 2020

Our special, twice a year, offering for all Jesuit Dallas students, faculty and staff, continues with a presentation on a dedicated Friday Prayer Service of this short play to celebrate Lent season, attended by all 1,200+ Jesuit community. This one is about the days after Jesus crucifixion, when Roman soldiers were guarding the tomb, and some special visitors arrive.

10 Plays in total, all written by Jesuit students

Directing class – January 2020

For the first time ever, our One-Acts Festival, presented by the student-Directors from the Directing class, is made by all Jesuit-written plays, filling us with pride on the accomplishment of making these works all original, a main objective for the theater program at Jesuit. The hugely successful One-Acts Festival was presented during 4 nights, divided in half on two nights each. 

By Cole Nelson and Carlos Acevedo

Theater Arts class – Christmas Prayer Service 2019

Co-written by Jesuit alumni Cole Nelson (2019), and continuing with our special, twice a year, offering for all Jesuit Dallas students, faculty and staff, a presentation on a dedicated Friday Prayer Service of this short play to celebrate Christmas, attended by all 1,200+ Jesuit community. In this one, the story of Jesus 30^th birthday presents him and those around him with his decision to start his ministry.

By Andrew Brannon

Senior class final show of school year – May 2019

Written by Jesuit alumni Andrew Brannon (2019), this one begins a new stage of our theater program, with a sendoff by the Senior class on a special presentation of this show about a mysterious disappearance and the search for answers by those left behind. A reflection on what happens when someone leaves us and goes on.

By Laurent Baffie

Theater Arts class – May 2019

Again, as the final project for the Theater Arts class, and final production of the school year, this international box office success, with record number of performances in Spain and Argentina, is adapted and translated in English for Jesuit theater, featuring an all-male cast, and presented in our main stage.

Adapted by Carlos Acevedo from plays by David Hardy and Richard Ruddle

Theater Arts class – Lent Prayer Service 2019

Our special, twice a year, offering for all Jesuit Dallas students, faculty and staff, with a presentation on a dedicated Friday Prayer Service of this short play to celebrate Lent season, attended by all 1,200+ Jesuit community. This one brings a hearing-trial in which the Roman court investigates the disappearance of Jesus’s body from the tomb.

13 Plays in total, 7 written by Jesuit students

Directing class – January 2019

Our student-Directors from the Directing class present the hugely successful One-Acts Festival during 4 nights, divided in half on two nights each. Two nights were dedicated to original Jesuit written plays, and two nights for non-original works.

(The Mousetrap, by Agatha Christie)

(Murder Mystery at the Murder Mystery, by Brian D. Taylor)

Main Stage Production – Spring 2018

Jesuit theater comes with the idea of putting together two plays under the “murder mystery” genre, in an effort to expand and offerings and bring more acting opportunities to students. Agatha Christie’s classic The Mousetrap was shortened into a one-act play, while Murder Mystery at the Murder Mystery brings the parody to this very popular theater genre first brought to commercial success during the 1930’s to 1950’s.

Adapted by Carlos Acevedo from a short story by Abelardo Diaz Alfaro

Theater Arts class – Christmas Prayer Service 2018

Continuing with our special, twice a year, offering for all Jesuit Dallas students, faculty and staff, with a presentation on a dedicated Friday Prayer Service of this short play to celebrate Christmas, attended by all 1,200+ Jesuit community. A Man For Others intertwined the stories of the birth of Jesus, the calling of the Shepherds, and the trail of the Magi, from their visit to King Herod in their road to Bethlehem.

By Jordi Galcerán

Theater Arts class – May 2018

The final project for the Theater Arts class, and final production of the school year, this worldwide successful and award winner play (which was made into a movie) was adapted and translated in English featuring an all-male cast, and presented in our main stage.

By Andrew Brannon

Theater Arts class – Lent Prayer Service 2018

Written by Jesuit alumni Andrew Brannon (2019), this represents the beginning of a very special, twice a year, offering for Jesuit Dallas students, faculty and staff, with a presentation of a Lent season play on a dedicated Friday Prayer Service attended by all 1,200+ Jesuit community. The Twelve is about a meeting of the apostles after Jesus’s crucifixion to discuss what happened, reflect, and decide what steps to take next.

11 Plays in total, 6 written by Jesuit students

Directing class – January 2018

Our student-Directors from the Directing class present the hugely successful One-Acts Festival during 4 nights, divided in half on two nights each. For the first time, two nights were dedicated to original Jesuit written plays, and two nights for non-original works.

By Lee Hall

Main Stage Production – Fall 2018

Jesuit Dallas prides itself on being one of the first schools in US to bring the school premiere of this amazing big-scale show after its Broadway and West End first run. Adapted to the stage from the Best Picture Oscar winning film of the same title written by Tom Stoppard, in 1593 London, William Shakespeare is working on a new comedy, but is suffering from writer’s block, and in desperate need of inspiration. That is, until he finds his muse; Viola. Will’s love for Viola inspires him to write his greatest masterpiece.

(Accidental Death of an Anarchist, by Dario Fo)

(The Virtuous Burglar, by Dario Fo)

Main Stage Production – Spring 2017

Jesuit theater brings back the idea of putting together two plays (in an effort to expand and offerings and bring acting opportunities to more students), this time both from the same author, the Italian dramatist, director, actor, satirist and painter Dario Fo, who touched the heights of genius with his irreverent and unorthodox take on social and humanitarian issues and the everyday life. Fo is only one of four playwright winners of the Nobel prize for literature (1997). 

By Carlos Acevedo

Theater Arts class – Christmas 2017

A short Christmas comedy offering for all students, performed in Hughes Hall for the first time, during all lunch periods.

By S.E. Hinton

Main Stage Production – Fall 2017

A story “for teenagers, about teenagers, written by a teenager”, S.E. Hinton’s candid, canny appraisal of the conflict between two groups of teenagers whose bitter rivalry stems from socioeconomic differences (published in 1967), was an immediate hit and remains the best-selling young-adult novel of all time. The Outsiders examines the universal urge to combat prejudice, class conflicts, and to unite for survival.