Season

2024-25

Play

There’s Nothing You Can Do

Run Dates

May 7, 2025–May 11, 2025

Header image features: Joel Stead (front), Jeremy Nolan (back left), Mallory Clarke, Evan Walsh. Photo by Marie Dionne.

Poster by Perfect Day.

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Description

A play about dancing through love, betrayal, a quarter life crisis, and a violent crime. There’s Nothing You Can Do explores a group of recently reconnected friends who fall into a collective quarter-life crisis as they come to the realization that their lives aren’t what they imagined they’d be as they turn, or near, 30. The play recontextualizes the “Dancing Plague of 1518” as a way to explore this existential-anxiety, and posits that when life doesn’t make sense anymore, all that’s left is to dance.

Production type

  • RCA Presentation

Gallery

A group of young adults hang around a living room set. Two men on the left are sitting on a couch. One woman stands on the right, with another woman sitting on a chair in the middle. Behind her, a man in the background wears a red shirt and motorcycle helmet with his arms held out wide.
Image features: Jeremy Nolan (left), Evan Walsh, Joel Stead, Mallory Clarke, Nora Barker. Photo by Marie Dionne.
A young woman with dark hair, a black t-shirt, and jean shorts sits on the floor in front of a man sitting on a toilet. He is wearing a business suit.
Image features: Mallory Clarke (front), Colin Furlong. Photo by Marie Dionne.
A young women wearing a black t-shirt, jean shorts, and fishnet tights dances with a man wearing a patterned shirt and dark pants.
Image features: Joel Stead (left), Mallory Clarke. Photo by Marie Dionne.
A young man in beige clothing stands and looks out at the audience. A group of people in beige clothing dance around him.
Image features: Mallory Clarke (left), Jeremy Nolan. Photo by Marie Dionne.
A group of young men and women dance in old-fashioned beige clothing.
Image features: Joel Stead (front row), Mallory Clarke, Evan Walsh, Colin Furlong, Nora Barker (back row), Jeremy Nolan. Photo by Marie Dionne.
A group of young men and women dance in old-fashioned beige clothing.
Image features: Mallory Clarke (left), Joel Stead, Nora Barker, Colin Furlong, Evan Walsh. Photo by Marie Dionne.
A young woman in beige clothing dances in front of a black background. Long shadows are cast across her and the stage floor.
Image features: Nora Barker Photo by Marie Dionne.
A young woman with red hair and beige clothing dances in front of a black background.
Image features: Nora Barker. Photo by Marie Dionne.

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