BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Yoga Play X-WR-TIMEZONE:Eastern Time (US & Canada) BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260817T173415Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50877181218213 DTSTART:20251017T233000Z DTEND:20251018T003000Z DESCRIPTION:Laugh out loud in Downward Dog\n\nJoin UMass Theater for its se ason opener\, Yoga Play\n\nBreathe in. Buy. Breathe out. BUY. Breathe in. BUY MORE.\n\nIn 2013\, a certain yoga apparel giant experienced media outr age for tone-deaf public statements and less-than-ethical labor practices. Playwright Dipika Guha riffs on these real-world events to comedic effect in Yoga Play \, where stressed-out yoga apparel CEO Joan is one bad decis ion away from a PR-nightmare of career-ending proportions. Joan’s active wear giant Jojomon™ has recently been charged with fat shaming\, exploit ative labor practices\, and cultural appropriation. To temper a furious cu stomer base\, Joan and her team hire yoga master extraordinaire Guruji to inject some much needed authenticity into the brand — which may be the w orst (or best?) decision of their careers.\n\nYoga Play invites audiences to consider corporate work culture\, authenticity\, appropriation\, immigr ation\, and more. The production opens the UMass Theater season in the Cur tain Theater on Oct. 17 and tickets are available now.\n\n"It's fast and f unny and tongue-in-cheek while also being incredibly nuanced and thoughtfu l\,” Director Rose Schwietz Malla says of her latest directing endeavor. This is something of a sweet spot for her\, since she directed the zany a nd earnest musical Xanadu for us last season. \n\nYoga Play explores tradi tional yoga\, westernized yoga\, yoga as a commercial product\, and yoga a s a personal practice\, examining the interrelatedness and tensions throug hout its evolution. Schwietz Malla\, who has had her own complicated relat ionship with yoga through a decade living as a foreigner in Nepal\, resona tes with the play’s satirized characters - she knows versions of them in real life. "It goes to extremes of ridiculousness\, but you can believe t hese are people doing the best they can. Everyone is problematic\, and als o forgivable." \n\nAs the audience is plunged into the corporate antics o f the ultra uninformed\, we're challenged to ponder how one culture approp riates another\, the joys and tensions of belonging\, and the quest for au thenticity in a world with so much noise. \n\nReserve your spot now for th is funny\, profound Yoga Play!\nYOGA PLAY DETAILS\nBy Dipika Guha\nDirecte d by Rose Schwietz Malla\nOct. 17\, 18\, 22\, 24\, 25 at 7:30 p.m.\nOct. 2 3 at 10 a.m.\nOct. 25 at 2 p.m.\nThe Curtain Theater\nYoga Play tickets\n\ nContent Advisory: Racially and culturally sensitive themes and coarse lan guage. Recommended for ages 13 and up\n“Yoga Play” is presented by arr angement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French\, Inc. www.co ncordtheatricals.com\n\nTickets and pricing for season events:\n$17 genera l admission\, $5 for students\, seniors\, and Card to Culture patrons\, or $19 and $7 through the Fine Arts Center Box Office\, which includes a $2 fee.\nSeason and group discounts available GEO:42.388237;-72.525775 LOCATION:Curtain Theater SUMMARY:Yoga Play URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.umass.edu/event/yoga-play CATEGORIES:Concert/Performance/Film END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260817T173415Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50877181218214 DTSTART:20251018T233000Z DTEND:20251019T003000Z DESCRIPTION:Laugh out loud in Downward Dog\n\nJoin UMass Theater for its se ason opener\, Yoga Play\n\nBreathe in. Buy. Breathe out. BUY. Breathe in. BUY MORE.\n\nIn 2013\, a certain yoga apparel giant experienced media outr age for tone-deaf public statements and less-than-ethical labor practices. Playwright Dipika Guha riffs on these real-world events to comedic effect in Yoga Play \, where stressed-out yoga apparel CEO Joan is one bad decis ion away from a PR-nightmare of career-ending proportions. Joan’s active wear giant Jojomon™ has recently been charged with fat shaming\, exploit ative labor practices\, and cultural appropriation. To temper a furious cu stomer base\, Joan and her team hire yoga master extraordinaire Guruji to inject some much needed authenticity into the brand — which may be the w orst (or best?) decision of their careers.\n\nYoga Play invites audiences to consider corporate work culture\, authenticity\, appropriation\, immigr ation\, and more. The production opens the UMass Theater season in the Cur tain Theater on Oct. 17 and tickets are available now.\n\n"It's fast and f unny and tongue-in-cheek while also being incredibly nuanced and thoughtfu l\,” Director Rose Schwietz Malla says of her latest directing endeavor. This is something of a sweet spot for her\, since she directed the zany a nd earnest musical Xanadu for us last season. \n\nYoga Play explores tradi tional yoga\, westernized yoga\, yoga as a commercial product\, and yoga a s a personal practice\, examining the interrelatedness and tensions throug hout its evolution. Schwietz Malla\, who has had her own complicated relat ionship with yoga through a decade living as a foreigner in Nepal\, resona tes with the play’s satirized characters - she knows versions of them in real life. "It goes to extremes of ridiculousness\, but you can believe t hese are people doing the best they can. Everyone is problematic\, and als o forgivable." \n\nAs the audience is plunged into the corporate antics o f the ultra uninformed\, we're challenged to ponder how one culture approp riates another\, the joys and tensions of belonging\, and the quest for au thenticity in a world with so much noise. \n\nReserve your spot now for th is funny\, profound Yoga Play!\nYOGA PLAY DETAILS\nBy Dipika Guha\nDirecte d by Rose Schwietz Malla\nOct. 17\, 18\, 22\, 24\, 25 at 7:30 p.m.\nOct. 2 3 at 10 a.m.\nOct. 25 at 2 p.m.\nThe Curtain Theater\nYoga Play tickets\n\ nContent Advisory: Racially and culturally sensitive themes and coarse lan guage. Recommended for ages 13 and up\n“Yoga Play” is presented by arr angement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French\, Inc. www.co ncordtheatricals.com\n\nTickets and pricing for season events:\n$17 genera l admission\, $5 for students\, seniors\, and Card to Culture patrons\, or $19 and $7 through the Fine Arts Center Box Office\, which includes a $2 fee.\nSeason and group discounts available GEO:42.388237;-72.525775 LOCATION:Curtain Theater SUMMARY:Yoga Play URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.umass.edu/event/yoga-play CATEGORIES:Concert/Performance/Film END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260817T173415Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50877181219239 DTSTART:20251022T233000Z DTEND:20251023T003000Z DESCRIPTION:Laugh out loud in Downward Dog\n\nJoin UMass Theater for its se ason opener\, Yoga Play\n\nBreathe in. Buy. Breathe out. BUY. Breathe in. BUY MORE.\n\nIn 2013\, a certain yoga apparel giant experienced media outr age for tone-deaf public statements and less-than-ethical labor practices. Playwright Dipika Guha riffs on these real-world events to comedic effect in Yoga Play \, where stressed-out yoga apparel CEO Joan is one bad decis ion away from a PR-nightmare of career-ending proportions. Joan’s active wear giant Jojomon™ has recently been charged with fat shaming\, exploit ative labor practices\, and cultural appropriation. To temper a furious cu stomer base\, Joan and her team hire yoga master extraordinaire Guruji to inject some much needed authenticity into the brand — which may be the w orst (or best?) decision of their careers.\n\nYoga Play invites audiences to consider corporate work culture\, authenticity\, appropriation\, immigr ation\, and more. The production opens the UMass Theater season in the Cur tain Theater on Oct. 17 and tickets are available now.\n\n"It's fast and f unny and tongue-in-cheek while also being incredibly nuanced and thoughtfu l\,” Director Rose Schwietz Malla says of her latest directing endeavor. This is something of a sweet spot for her\, since she directed the zany a nd earnest musical Xanadu for us last season. \n\nYoga Play explores tradi tional yoga\, westernized yoga\, yoga as a commercial product\, and yoga a s a personal practice\, examining the interrelatedness and tensions throug hout its evolution. Schwietz Malla\, who has had her own complicated relat ionship with yoga through a decade living as a foreigner in Nepal\, resona tes with the play’s satirized characters - she knows versions of them in real life. "It goes to extremes of ridiculousness\, but you can believe t hese are people doing the best they can. Everyone is problematic\, and als o forgivable." \n\nAs the audience is plunged into the corporate antics o f the ultra uninformed\, we're challenged to ponder how one culture approp riates another\, the joys and tensions of belonging\, and the quest for au thenticity in a world with so much noise. \n\nReserve your spot now for th is funny\, profound Yoga Play!\nYOGA PLAY DETAILS\nBy Dipika Guha\nDirecte d by Rose Schwietz Malla\nOct. 17\, 18\, 22\, 24\, 25 at 7:30 p.m.\nOct. 2 3 at 10 a.m.\nOct. 25 at 2 p.m.\nThe Curtain Theater\nYoga Play tickets\n\ nContent Advisory: Racially and culturally sensitive themes and coarse lan guage. Recommended for ages 13 and up\n“Yoga Play” is presented by arr angement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French\, Inc. www.co ncordtheatricals.com\n\nTickets and pricing for season events:\n$17 genera l admission\, $5 for students\, seniors\, and Card to Culture patrons\, or $19 and $7 through the Fine Arts Center Box Office\, which includes a $2 fee.\nSeason and group discounts available GEO:42.388237;-72.525775 LOCATION:Curtain Theater SUMMARY:Yoga Play URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.umass.edu/event/yoga-play CATEGORIES:Concert/Performance/Film END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260817T173415Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50877192638417 DTSTART:20251023T140000Z DTEND:20251023T150000Z DESCRIPTION:Laugh out loud in Downward Dog\n\nJoin UMass Theater for its se ason opener\, Yoga Play\n\nBreathe in. Buy. Breathe out. BUY. Breathe in. BUY MORE.\n\nIn 2013\, a certain yoga apparel giant experienced media outr age for tone-deaf public statements and less-than-ethical labor practices. Playwright Dipika Guha riffs on these real-world events to comedic effect in Yoga Play \, where stressed-out yoga apparel CEO Joan is one bad decis ion away from a PR-nightmare of career-ending proportions. Joan’s active wear giant Jojomon™ has recently been charged with fat shaming\, exploit ative labor practices\, and cultural appropriation. To temper a furious cu stomer base\, Joan and her team hire yoga master extraordinaire Guruji to inject some much needed authenticity into the brand — which may be the w orst (or best?) decision of their careers.\n\nYoga Play invites audiences to consider corporate work culture\, authenticity\, appropriation\, immigr ation\, and more. The production opens the UMass Theater season in the Cur tain Theater on Oct. 17 and tickets are available now.\n\n"It's fast and f unny and tongue-in-cheek while also being incredibly nuanced and thoughtfu l\,” Director Rose Schwietz Malla says of her latest directing endeavor. This is something of a sweet spot for her\, since she directed the zany a nd earnest musical Xanadu for us last season. \n\nYoga Play explores tradi tional yoga\, westernized yoga\, yoga as a commercial product\, and yoga a s a personal practice\, examining the interrelatedness and tensions throug hout its evolution. Schwietz Malla\, who has had her own complicated relat ionship with yoga through a decade living as a foreigner in Nepal\, resona tes with the play’s satirized characters - she knows versions of them in real life. "It goes to extremes of ridiculousness\, but you can believe t hese are people doing the best they can. Everyone is problematic\, and als o forgivable." \n\nAs the audience is plunged into the corporate antics o f the ultra uninformed\, we're challenged to ponder how one culture approp riates another\, the joys and tensions of belonging\, and the quest for au thenticity in a world with so much noise. \n\nReserve your spot now for th is funny\, profound Yoga Play!\nYOGA PLAY DETAILS\nBy Dipika Guha\nDirecte d by Rose Schwietz Malla\nOct. 17\, 18\, 22\, 24\, 25 at 7:30 p.m.\nOct. 2 3 at 10 a.m.\nOct. 25 at 2 p.m.\nThe Curtain Theater\nYoga Play tickets\n\ nContent Advisory: Racially and culturally sensitive themes and coarse lan guage. Recommended for ages 13 and up\n“Yoga Play” is presented by arr angement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French\, Inc. www.co ncordtheatricals.com\n\nTickets and pricing for season events:\n$17 genera l admission\, $5 for students\, seniors\, and Card to Culture patrons\, or $19 and $7 through the Fine Arts Center Box Office\, which includes a $2 fee.\nSeason and group discounts available GEO:42.388237;-72.525775 LOCATION:Curtain Theater SUMMARY:Yoga Play URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.umass.edu/event/yoga-play CATEGORIES:Concert/Performance/Film END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260817T173415Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50877192639442 DTSTART:20251024T233000Z DTEND:20251025T003000Z DESCRIPTION:Laugh out loud in Downward Dog\n\nJoin UMass Theater for its se ason opener\, Yoga Play\n\nBreathe in. Buy. Breathe out. BUY. Breathe in. BUY MORE.\n\nIn 2013\, a certain yoga apparel giant experienced media outr age for tone-deaf public statements and less-than-ethical labor practices. Playwright Dipika Guha riffs on these real-world events to comedic effect in Yoga Play \, where stressed-out yoga apparel CEO Joan is one bad decis ion away from a PR-nightmare of career-ending proportions. Joan’s active wear giant Jojomon™ has recently been charged with fat shaming\, exploit ative labor practices\, and cultural appropriation. To temper a furious cu stomer base\, Joan and her team hire yoga master extraordinaire Guruji to inject some much needed authenticity into the brand — which may be the w orst (or best?) decision of their careers.\n\nYoga Play invites audiences to consider corporate work culture\, authenticity\, appropriation\, immigr ation\, and more. The production opens the UMass Theater season in the Cur tain Theater on Oct. 17 and tickets are available now.\n\n"It's fast and f unny and tongue-in-cheek while also being incredibly nuanced and thoughtfu l\,” Director Rose Schwietz Malla says of her latest directing endeavor. This is something of a sweet spot for her\, since she directed the zany a nd earnest musical Xanadu for us last season. \n\nYoga Play explores tradi tional yoga\, westernized yoga\, yoga as a commercial product\, and yoga a s a personal practice\, examining the interrelatedness and tensions throug hout its evolution. Schwietz Malla\, who has had her own complicated relat ionship with yoga through a decade living as a foreigner in Nepal\, resona tes with the play’s satirized characters - she knows versions of them in real life. "It goes to extremes of ridiculousness\, but you can believe t hese are people doing the best they can. Everyone is problematic\, and als o forgivable." \n\nAs the audience is plunged into the corporate antics o f the ultra uninformed\, we're challenged to ponder how one culture approp riates another\, the joys and tensions of belonging\, and the quest for au thenticity in a world with so much noise. \n\nReserve your spot now for th is funny\, profound Yoga Play!\nYOGA PLAY DETAILS\nBy Dipika Guha\nDirecte d by Rose Schwietz Malla\nOct. 17\, 18\, 22\, 24\, 25 at 7:30 p.m.\nOct. 2 3 at 10 a.m.\nOct. 25 at 2 p.m.\nThe Curtain Theater\nYoga Play tickets\n\ nContent Advisory: Racially and culturally sensitive themes and coarse lan guage. Recommended for ages 13 and up\n“Yoga Play” is presented by arr angement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French\, Inc. www.co ncordtheatricals.com\n\nTickets and pricing for season events:\n$17 genera l admission\, $5 for students\, seniors\, and Card to Culture patrons\, or $19 and $7 through the Fine Arts Center Box Office\, which includes a $2 fee.\nSeason and group discounts available GEO:42.388237;-72.525775 LOCATION:Curtain Theater SUMMARY:Yoga Play URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.umass.edu/event/yoga-play CATEGORIES:Concert/Performance/Film END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260817T173415Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50877192640467 DTSTART:20251025T180000Z DTEND:20251025T190000Z DESCRIPTION:Laugh out loud in Downward Dog\n\nJoin UMass Theater for its se ason opener\, Yoga Play\n\nBreathe in. Buy. Breathe out. BUY. Breathe in. BUY MORE.\n\nIn 2013\, a certain yoga apparel giant experienced media outr age for tone-deaf public statements and less-than-ethical labor practices. Playwright Dipika Guha riffs on these real-world events to comedic effect in Yoga Play \, where stressed-out yoga apparel CEO Joan is one bad decis ion away from a PR-nightmare of career-ending proportions. Joan’s active wear giant Jojomon™ has recently been charged with fat shaming\, exploit ative labor practices\, and cultural appropriation. To temper a furious cu stomer base\, Joan and her team hire yoga master extraordinaire Guruji to inject some much needed authenticity into the brand — which may be the w orst (or best?) decision of their careers.\n\nYoga Play invites audiences to consider corporate work culture\, authenticity\, appropriation\, immigr ation\, and more. The production opens the UMass Theater season in the Cur tain Theater on Oct. 17 and tickets are available now.\n\n"It's fast and f unny and tongue-in-cheek while also being incredibly nuanced and thoughtfu l\,” Director Rose Schwietz Malla says of her latest directing endeavor. This is something of a sweet spot for her\, since she directed the zany a nd earnest musical Xanadu for us last season. \n\nYoga Play explores tradi tional yoga\, westernized yoga\, yoga as a commercial product\, and yoga a s a personal practice\, examining the interrelatedness and tensions throug hout its evolution. Schwietz Malla\, who has had her own complicated relat ionship with yoga through a decade living as a foreigner in Nepal\, resona tes with the play’s satirized characters - she knows versions of them in real life. "It goes to extremes of ridiculousness\, but you can believe t hese are people doing the best they can. Everyone is problematic\, and als o forgivable." \n\nAs the audience is plunged into the corporate antics o f the ultra uninformed\, we're challenged to ponder how one culture approp riates another\, the joys and tensions of belonging\, and the quest for au thenticity in a world with so much noise. \n\nReserve your spot now for th is funny\, profound Yoga Play!\nYOGA PLAY DETAILS\nBy Dipika Guha\nDirecte d by Rose Schwietz Malla\nOct. 17\, 18\, 22\, 24\, 25 at 7:30 p.m.\nOct. 2 3 at 10 a.m.\nOct. 25 at 2 p.m.\nThe Curtain Theater\nYoga Play tickets\n\ nContent Advisory: Racially and culturally sensitive themes and coarse lan guage. Recommended for ages 13 and up\n“Yoga Play” is presented by arr angement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French\, Inc. www.co ncordtheatricals.com\n\nTickets and pricing for season events:\n$17 genera l admission\, $5 for students\, seniors\, and Card to Culture patrons\, or $19 and $7 through the Fine Arts Center Box Office\, which includes a $2 fee.\nSeason and group discounts available GEO:42.388237;-72.525775 LOCATION:Curtain Theater SUMMARY:Yoga Play URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.umass.edu/event/yoga-play CATEGORIES:Concert/Performance/Film END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260817T173415Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50877192641492 DTSTART:20251025T233000Z DTEND:20251026T003000Z DESCRIPTION:Laugh out loud in Downward Dog\n\nJoin UMass Theater for its se ason opener\, Yoga Play\n\nBreathe in. Buy. Breathe out. BUY. Breathe in. BUY MORE.\n\nIn 2013\, a certain yoga apparel giant experienced media outr age for tone-deaf public statements and less-than-ethical labor practices. Playwright Dipika Guha riffs on these real-world events to comedic effect in Yoga Play \, where stressed-out yoga apparel CEO Joan is one bad decis ion away from a PR-nightmare of career-ending proportions. Joan’s active wear giant Jojomon™ has recently been charged with fat shaming\, exploit ative labor practices\, and cultural appropriation. To temper a furious cu stomer base\, Joan and her team hire yoga master extraordinaire Guruji to inject some much needed authenticity into the brand — which may be the w orst (or best?) decision of their careers.\n\nYoga Play invites audiences to consider corporate work culture\, authenticity\, appropriation\, immigr ation\, and more. The production opens the UMass Theater season in the Cur tain Theater on Oct. 17 and tickets are available now.\n\n"It's fast and f unny and tongue-in-cheek while also being incredibly nuanced and thoughtfu l\,” Director Rose Schwietz Malla says of her latest directing endeavor. This is something of a sweet spot for her\, since she directed the zany a nd earnest musical Xanadu for us last season. \n\nYoga Play explores tradi tional yoga\, westernized yoga\, yoga as a commercial product\, and yoga a s a personal practice\, examining the interrelatedness and tensions throug hout its evolution. Schwietz Malla\, who has had her own complicated relat ionship with yoga through a decade living as a foreigner in Nepal\, resona tes with the play’s satirized characters - she knows versions of them in real life. "It goes to extremes of ridiculousness\, but you can believe t hese are people doing the best they can. Everyone is problematic\, and als o forgivable." \n\nAs the audience is plunged into the corporate antics o f the ultra uninformed\, we're challenged to ponder how one culture approp riates another\, the joys and tensions of belonging\, and the quest for au thenticity in a world with so much noise. \n\nReserve your spot now for th is funny\, profound Yoga Play!\nYOGA PLAY DETAILS\nBy Dipika Guha\nDirecte d by Rose Schwietz Malla\nOct. 17\, 18\, 22\, 24\, 25 at 7:30 p.m.\nOct. 2 3 at 10 a.m.\nOct. 25 at 2 p.m.\nThe Curtain Theater\nYoga Play tickets\n\ nContent Advisory: Racially and culturally sensitive themes and coarse lan guage. Recommended for ages 13 and up\n“Yoga Play” is presented by arr angement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French\, Inc. www.co ncordtheatricals.com\n\nTickets and pricing for season events:\n$17 genera l admission\, $5 for students\, seniors\, and Card to Culture patrons\, or $19 and $7 through the Fine Arts Center Box Office\, which includes a $2 fee.\nSeason and group discounts available GEO:42.388237;-72.525775 LOCATION:Curtain Theater SUMMARY:Yoga Play URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.umass.edu/event/yoga-play CATEGORIES:Concert/Performance/Film END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR