Drama students will show some of what they have learned in free performances for the campus community this week.

Third-year acting students present a “works in progress” performance of a new devised piece of theatre on Thursday and Friday, Dec. 5 and 6. In deconstructing Euripides's classic Greek tragedy The Bacchae, they will explore questions about the contemporary world at 3 p.m. both days in the Acting Studio, Jackman Dramatic Art Centre.

Students in a second-year improve class will perform a one-hour show in the Jackman’s Studio Theatre on Thursday, Dec. 5. Doors open at 6:45 p.m., and the players warn there will be ’80s dance music, rubber chickens, and comedy.