Gruesome Playground Injuries | UWL Frederick Theatre

Name: Gruesome Playground Injuries | UWL Frederick Theatre
Start: 2026-11-07T19:30:00-06:00
End: 2026-11-07T21:30:00-06:00
Location: Frederick Theatre (UWL); Morris Hall

November 7 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

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$10 – $22

Gruesome Playground Injuries
By Rajiv Joseph
Directed by Mary Trotter
Gruesome Playground Injuries is a raw, darkly funny, and deeply affecting exploration of love, pain, and the marks we carry from childhood into adulthood. Tracking the lives of Kayleen and Doug through a series of out of order vignettes, the play reveals their complicated bond through moments of physical injury and emotional vulnerability—skinned knees, broken bones, broken hearts. As they reconnect again and again over three decades, their relationship becomes a haunting portrait of intimacy, dependency, and the ways we both hurt and heal one another. Tender, unsettling, and unexpectedly funny, Gruesome Playground Injuries is a powerful portrait of two people bound by timing, trauma, and the complicated ways we learn to love.

Performance Dates
November 5-7 at 7:30 p.m.
November 8 at 2:00 p.m.
Frederick Theatre, Morris Hall
General Admission.

ONLINE TICKETS: $20 adults; $18 senior citizens/non UWL students/military; $8 UWL students. Online tickets will have a small credit card processing fee added at checkout. Patrons are encouraged to buy their tickets online and download the tickets to their phone/email. Tickets may be purchased online at www.uwlax.edu/theatre-and-dance beginning October 1, 2026.

IN PERSON/PHONE TICKETS: $22 for adults, $20 for senior/non UWL students/military and $10 for UWL students (processing/printing fee already included in the price). Tickets are available for purchase in person at the box office in the Lowe Center for the Arts or by calling 608.785.6696. Box office hours are Monday through Friday 1:00-3:00 p.m. and one hour prior to each performance during the run of the show (November 2-8).