When he first started working on “The Bacchae,” Chris McMahon wanted his actors to be completely naked.

This weekend, LAB! Theatre will bring the ancient Roman dictator to his knees once again with the company’s production of Shakespeare’s tragedy “Julius Caesar,” which opens tonight in Kenan Theatre.

This is the last in a series of stories this week showcasing the student playwrights featured in LAB! Theatre’s “One Acts in the Park,” which begins Saturday at Forest Theatre.

This is the third in a series of stories this week showcasing the student playwrights featured in LAB! Theatre’s “One Acts in the Park,” which begins Saturday at Forest Theatre.

John May took his homework for his playwriting class and turned it into a work of art.

Senior dramatic art major Tyler Burt has written a short play for LAB! Theatre’s “One Acts in the Park,” an annual Forest Theatre festival featuring six student-written plays.

On a Saturday rehearsal of “The Milford Project,” Richie and Penny skipped across a classroom-turned-meadow stage, speaking in oddly-pitched, curious tones.

LAB! Theatre’s next production will take audiences back to the 1990s — criminal style.

John May began his dramatic career as a playwright. An exchange student from Glasgow, Scotland, May’s first play, “The Room,” won the 2008 Barclays Young Writers Award.

The Writing for the Screen and Stage program’s “Long Story Shorts” festival and LAB! Theatre both gave student playwrights the chance to meet the goal of seeing their words come to life on stage.

Eight women and zero men comprise the cast of LAB! Theatre’s most recent main stage production.

Ashley Gunsteens always knew how she wanted “How I Learned to Drive” to be performed.

LAB! Theatre has packed their season. While last year the student-run company produced seven plays — four of which were joint productions with the Department of Dramatic Art — this season boasts 12 performances.

LAB! Theatre’s first original production of the season — which opens tonight — still does not have a script.

Senior Catya McMullen began writing a one-act play two years ago. After editing and developing another act, “The Collective” has evolved into a full-length LAB! performance on the Kenan Theatre stage.

In a frenzied, fast-paced 24 hours, UNC’s LAB! Theatre presented six original one-act plays, based on a Broadway festival of a similar nature, this Friday and Saturday.

Thom Pain is a man who means what he says. Deciphering that meaning is entirely up to the viewer. Thursday night marked the opening of the LAB! Theatre production of “Thom Pain,” written by American playwright Will Eno. Senior Zac Moon played the role of Pain.

Tonight, the peculiar Thom Pain will lay claim to Bingham Hall. Produced by the LAB! Theatre, “Thom Pain” is a one-man show written by American playwright Will Eno that revolves around the storytelling efforts of the titular character. Senior Zac Moon, a dramatic arts and communication studies double major, will play Pain.

Since she first saw the play in high school, Jamila Reddy has wanted to direct “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf.”

Even with exams looming, student playwrights, directors and actors are still managing to find time and energy to prepare their work for “One-Act Plays in the Park,” a seven-play festival at 2:30 p.m. Saturday in the Forest Theatre.