New UA theater initiative to introduce itself to Tucson this weekend | Arts and Theater

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Jacobs-Jenkins adds a twist: at the beginning of the play, a narrator addresses the audience and sets the rules, including standard protocols for the audience to unpack candy and the last cough before the play begins. And then we learn that the main characters – Friendship, Kinship, Stuff, Mind, Five Senses and Understanding – are assigned to the actors by lottery. They have no idea what character they are going to land until they pull him out of the bowl.

“I’m figuring out what role I’ll play when the audience does,” said the second Riley Siegler, who said she had to memorize five roles and be ready to play any of them every night.

“We are mentally prepared as well as possible,” said the theater and film major, who said the Next Performance Collective shows the overwhelming and untapped diversity of the BA theater program.

“As a Person of Color himself, I think we are really going in the same direction that many theaters are going where we see diversity as more of a practice than a theory,” she said. “It does the show ‘Everybody’ because everyone is there.”

And all of that is the reason why “Everybody” is a perfect launch pad for the Next Performance Collective.

“I think this company is incredibly brave and they are incredibly, incredibly brilliant actors,” said Mackay, who taught at the UA for three years and worked in film for almost a decade.

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