Signature Event: Big Love

Name: Signature Event: Big Love
Start: 2025-11-06T19:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-11-06T21:30:00-05:00
Location: Fletcher Collins Theatre

Schedule

Thu Nov 06 2025 at 07:30 pm to 09:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Fletcher Collins Theatre | Staunton, VA

MBU Undergraduate Theatre Fall Mainstage Production
Big Love
Written by Charles Mee and adapted freely by the cast
Based on The Suppliants by Aeschylus
Directed by Molly Seremet
November 6–9, 2025 (Thursday–Saturday at 7:30 p.m., Sunday at 2 p.m.)
Fletcher Collins Theatre, Deming Hall
In this raucous play with music, 50 brides flee their 50 grooms on their wedding day. The women seek refuge in a villa on the coast of Italy but all is not well. The 50 grooms catch up with the brides and mayhem ensues. The grooms arrive by helicopter in their flight suits and the women wield words (and circular saw blades!) with equal abandon, and love tangles with belonging, agency, and independence In this world of pop songs, wild dances, and chaotic violence, 49 brides K*ll 49 grooms … and one marries for love. Join us for this re-making of one of the western world's oldest plays to find out just who finds love in a hopeless place.
MBU undergraduate students: FREE
Non-MBU Students, MBU Graduate Students, Faculty & Staff, Sr. Citizen: $7
Adult: $12
For ticket reservations, visit the box office form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeF7ZtEW6BmzTfb89eiX0HyVd_ceK6pDcpDyI-h77FSflexug/viewform?pli=1
MBU Signature Events are a new series of public lectures, performances, and community experiences hosted by Mary Baldwin University and designed to engage both the campus and broader Staunton communities.