3520 7th Avenue.
Admission is free.
The production is the work of Hillary Vavra, a senior majoring in history with a minor in medieval and renaissance studies. Vavra is one of the first students to complete the minor, which requires a major research project in the field of medieval and renaissance scholarship. Vavra chose this 12th century work as her focus during her first year at Augustana, meaning the production is the result of four years of research. The Ordo Virtutum was written in 1151 by Abbess Hildegard for the nuns of her abbey near Bingen, Germany. Sung in Latin chant, this liturgical play dramatizes the struggles between 17 virtues and the Devil over the destiny of a female soul.