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Performance: Hotel Modern "The Great War"
Venue: Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Friday, November 7, 2025
Time: 7:30 - 8:30 PM
Event Types: Music, Arts & Theatre
Cost:
General Admission: $25.00 Students with ID and Youth 18 and Under: $10.00

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Description:
The Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech presents Hotel Modern performing "The Great War" on Thursday, November 6, 2025 and Friday, November 7, 2025 starting at 7:30 PM on both nights.

Rotterdam, Netherlands’ Hotel Modern creates fascinating performances that fuse drama, visual art, object theatre, puppetry, music, and film. The company uses household paraphernalia — hundreds of props — to construct scale models of miniature worlds, then projects them on a large screen in real time.

The Great War reconstructs World War I’s trench warfare with sawdust, potting soil, rusty nails, and parsley "trees" and incorporates actual letters from soldiers. Rain, wind, landslides, and explosions become staggeringly realistic on this diminutive battlefield as Hotel Modern exposes humanity's war wounds in this deep, beautiful, and poetic work.??

The audience will be invited on stage to view the set after the performance.

General admission is $25.00 per person and $10.00 for students with ID and youth 18 and under.

Tickets can be purchase online, at: https://tickets.artscenter.vt.edu/online/seatSelect.asp?createBO::WSmap=1&BOparam::WSmap::loadBestAvailable::performance_ids=EE7E4D30-EAAD-44C4-A5DF-B18879AFDF6B or in person at the box office or by calling the box office at 540-231-5300.

With its historical focus and intricate storytelling, this performance is best suited for adult audiences. This performance includes the use of fire and haze.

This performance will last approximately 60 minutes with no intermission.

Co-sponsored by the Center for Humanities, College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, University Libraries, and Corps of Cadets Major General W. Thomas Rice Center for Leader Development.

For more information, visit: https://artscenter.vt.edu/performances/hotel-modern.html or https://www.facebook.com/artscenteratvt or https://www.instagram.com/artscenteratvt/ or call 540-231-5300.