It is also the mission of this program to serve as a model of artistic excellence and moral integrity in the local community. This includes offering a season of quality theatre productions that stimulate, inspire, and challenge theatregoers both aesthetically and intellectually. Our artistic aim is to produce theatre that reveals truth. Because of the hope we have in Christ, we view truth as being ultimately redemptive. This does not mean, however, that truth is devoid of trials, hardship, cruelty, conflict, or behavior that makes us uncomfortable.
Theatre can reveal truth via both positive and negative means.
All Regent University Theatre productions must be reviewed and approved by a full-time faculty member within the program. It is our policy and practice to prayerfully exercise prudence in all decisions relating to the production schedule of the theatre program, including script selections, editing choices, and staging options. It is also our policy, however, to allow students as much artistic freedom as possible within the previously described guidelines and to encourage them to take responsibility and credit for their creative choices. In an effort to define the role of Theatre within Regent University s academic community, it may be helpful to first offer some basic assumptions regarding the biblical and aesthetic nature of theatre as an art form and of the rights and responsibilities of faculty and students in exercising their God-given talents. On the Nature of Drama It is essential when considering any artistic expression to recognize and acknowledge that there is a substantive difference between reality and representation.