Our Mission
Hornets’ Nest Student Theatre is dedicated to providing students with a collaborative and safe platform to produce, design, and perform fully realized productions. The organization was founded to supplement the curriculum of Shenadoah University’s Theatre Division, allowing students the opportunity to implement career practices while being held to a professional standard within reach of the University’s Faculty guidance.
Hornets’ Nest strives to provide its audiences and the Winchester community with exciting, high-quality entertainment and meaningful engagement with the student body.
UPCOMING....
THE MAD ONES
Mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved...
18-year-old Samantha Brown sits in a hand-me-down car with the keys clutched in her hand. Caught between a yearning for the unknown and feeling bound by expectation, she telescopes back to a time before her world had fallen apart. As she relives her senior year, we meet Sam’s well-intentioned helicopter mother Bev and her high school sweetheart of a boyfriend Adam, but it’s her painfully alive best friend Kelly that haunts her. Kelly was everything Sam is not – impetuous and daring. She pushed Sam to break rules and do the unexpected. When Kelly is killed in a car wreck, Sam loses not only her best friend but also the part of herself that was learning to be brave. Now, Sam has to make a decision: Will she follow her mother’s dreams for her, or will she summon the courage to drive away from her friends and family into a future she can’t imagine?