Common Thread Theatre Collective

Join us for our third summer season of live, professional theatre on Davidson's campus!  The partnership with NC A&T continues this summer as we look forward to bringing you two productions that will make you laugh and make you think! Fat Ham by North Carolina native, James Ijames and The Legand of Georgia McBride by Matthew Lopez.  

Common Thread Theatre Collective (CTTC) will create bold, fresh theatre that engages with our Lake Norman and wider Charlotte communities in an intentional and provocative way around inclusive stories of contemporary relevance. 

We want to create a strong company of local artists that value professional standards of production and work with us to produce stories that center traditionally underrepresented communities.

Common Thread would not be achievable without generous funding from the Bacca Visiting Artist and Scholar Program and the Clark Ross Academic Innovation Fund.  

Your gift will help Common Thread keep our local theatre artists engaged in making bold, fresh theatre for our communities!  Please click the button below and select "other" from the drop-down menu and then designate your gift to the Common Thread Theatre Collective.  We appreciate your support!

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Fat Ham

June 14 - June 23, 2024

By James Ijames

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright James Ijames reinvents Shakespeare’s masterpiece with a delectable comic tragedy in Fat Ham. Juicy is a queer, Southern college kid, already grappling with some serious questions of identity, when the ghost of his father shows up in their backyard, demanding that Juicy avenge his murder. It feels like a familiar story to Juicy, well-versed in Hamlet’s woes. What’s different is Juicy himself, a sensitive and self-aware young Black man trying to break the cycles of trauma and violence in service of his own liberation. From an uproarious family barbecue emerges a compelling examination of love and loss, pain and joy. [From Concord Theatricals]

CONTENT WARNING:

This show contains strong language and adult references.  Recommended for ages 16 and up. 

The Legend of Georgia McBride

July 12-21, 2024

By Matthew Lopez

In The Legend of Georgia McBride, Casey is an Elvis impersonator struggling to make a living in a Panama City Beach dive bar. He’s young, broke, behind on rent, and now his wife is pregnant. To make matters worse, Casey gets fired, losing his gig to a second-rate drag show. Before “the King” leaves the building, however, a twist of fate and a makeover by some fabulous new friends provide Casey a second chance to make it in showbiz. It’s a wildly entertaining story about friendship, acceptance, and finding a family in the unlikeliest of places. The production features a soundtrack of pop and country songs and is filled with snappy zingers and dance-worthy numbers. [From Dramatists Play Service]

CONTENT WARNING:

This show contains strong language and adult references.  Recommended for ages 13 and up.