Tagged - TOOP

TOOP’s Lysistrata: Amusing and abstinent

The motivation for TOOP’s production is the opposite of the traditional gender roles the plot reifies. It is a painting of contradictions. Read More

Student organizations face difficulties in reserving campus spaces

The student-run drama group The Opposite of People (TOOP) was told in late November that there was a shortage of performing space on campus. Read More

TOOP brings the love to Halloween with Pride and Prejudice

Pride & Prejudice is a tried-and-true, fan-favorite romcom, but this staging brought a vivacity and life to its text. Read More

Barbs and fairies fly In TOOP’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”

If you had told me a week ago that before the week was over I would be rick-rolled via Shakespeare, I would have told you to seek medical attention. But I nevertheless found myself in such a situation last Friday evening in Goergen Hall, watching The Opposite Of People’s production of William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer […]

‘Almost Maine’ paints poignant vignettes

The curtain didn’t go up at the start of UR TOOP’s “Almost Maine” Saturday night—because there was no curtain. Read More

TOOP is nearly flawless in “All in the Timing”

“All in the Timing,” the latest production by student theatre group The Opposite of People (TOOP), is a series of short plays that opens with three chimpanzees tasked with typing up “Hamlet,” written by David Ives. Read More