Hot Topics. Your Community. Your Voice.

Join your neighbors in lively debates on current issues that impact your world! The Hornets’ Nest features script-in-hand performances of hot topic plays followed by conversations with community leaders.

All Hornets’ Nest events are held in Geva’s Nextstage. Tickets are free and limited to two per person. Reservations are highly recommended – many events sell out! Reserve online or Call the Box Office at (585) 232-GEVA (4382).

Rick Dollinger and Major General John Batiste at the inaugural Hornets’ Nest reading of Back of the Throat

How can I get involved?

This project was born of our passion for open and free dialogue. It is essential to us that the access to this forum – if it is to be true community dialogue – that it remain free and open to all.

But for that to happen, we need you! You have already shown us that this kind of theatre and this kind of dialogue are important to you. That you believe, as we do, that art speaks to who we are as a community and as a civilization. That we can explore the stories of our generation in an effort to make life better for the next generation.

Let’s keep the conversation alive and thriving. Support the Hornets’ Nest.

Got a suggestion for a possible Hornets’ Nest play, or a topic that you’d like to talk about? Let us know what you’re thinking by emailing us at gevatalk@gevatheatre.org. Please include Hornets’ Nest in your subject line.

The Hornets’ Nest: Think Theatre.

“Because I am a white woman, I’ve never walked in the shoes of a black man, or an Asian person, or a Jewish person. But through the theatre I can experience that in some fashion – maybe not the same way, maybe not identically – but I CAN experience it, and through those experiences I can change. I think it’s so important that we have theatre that allows us to walk in someone else’s shoes.”

Retired Judge Marilyn O'Connor
following the Hornets’ Nest reading of The Sandreckoner

Leadership support for the Hornet’s Nest and New Works programs at Geva is provided by Jack and Barbara Kraushaar. The Kraushaars will match donations to these programs during the 2012-2013 season.

The Mary S. Mulligan Charitable Trust

Next Fall

By Geoffrey Nauffts

December 10 at 7:00pm

The first Hornets’ Nest of the year takes a witty and provocative look at faith, commitment and unconditional love, through the five year relationship between Adam and Luke. How does a deeply religious gay man reconcile these two aspects of his identity? Today, when gay rights are a part of the nation’s political discourse, what are the conversations we can have as community members?

Leadership support for the Hornet’s Nest and New Works programs at Geva is provided by Jack and Barbara Kraushaar. The Kraushaars will match donations to these programs during the 2012-2013 season.

The Mary S. Mulligan Charitable Trust

Blackbird

By David Harrower

January 14 at 7:00pm

When a young woman tracks down and confronts the man who took advantage of her as a minor, the story of their relationship becomes increasingly complicated. Without making any moral judgments, the play never shies away from the brutal truth of the abandoned and unconventional relationship. Is it ever really possible to escape your past?

Leadership support for the Hornet’s Nest and New Works programs at Geva is provided by Jack and Barbara Kraushaar. The Kraushaars will match donations to these programs during the 2012-2013 season.

The Mary S. Mulligan Charitable Trust

Love-Lies-Bleeding

By Don DeLillo

June 3 at 7:00pm

A free-spirited artist is left an invalid after a second stroke, and in his last years his estranged son, wife and ex-wife struggle over the ultimate question: How do they let him die with dignity? What are the ethical and legal issues involved in making decisions about the end of your life? Or a loved one’s? And once that decision is made, what does it take to carry it out?

Leadership support for the Hornet’s Nest and New Works programs at Geva is provided by Jack and Barbara Kraushaar. The Kraushaars will match donations to these programs during the 2012-2013 season.

The Mary S. Mulligan Charitable Trust