Season 5 – Power and Resistance
The season theme is Power and Resistance with plays that ask, “What would you do?” Southbank Theatre Company is proud to announce its fifth season, featuring three powerful mainstage productions
Season: 2025-2026 Season
Hell’s Belle
Our fourth show for season 5 will be the winner of our Making History Contest, Hell’s Belle: The Unbelievably True Tale of Indiana’s First Serial Killer by Amalia Howard. Congratulations Amalia!
Machinal
An expressionist parable about an ordinary young woman who lives in a mechanized, materialistic world. A modern Everywoman, Helen works in a boring office, marries her boss who offers her financial security, finds motherhood oppressive, and has a lover who abandons her. Machinal presents the life of a young woman who asks an impersonal society, “Is nothing mine?”
The Crucible
This timeless classic challenges American ideas of power, intolerance, and justice. In the Puritan community of Salem, Massachusetts, a servant girl accuses a farmer’s wife of witchcraft. One accusation spirals into many, uncovering a web of bigotry and deceit that changes their lives forever. The Crucible is both a gripping historical drama and an evergreen parable about contemporary society. (No Halloween show)
Equivocation
England, 1605: A terrorist plot to assassinate King James I and Parliament has been thwarted. Shakespeare is commissioned to write the “true historie” of the plot and is confronted with the ultimate moral and artistic dilemma: Speak truth to power—and perhaps lose his head, or take the money and lie. Is there a third option—equivocation? A high-stakes political thriller with contemporary resonances.
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