Three student performance troupes will put on shows this semester.

Theatre AACC will show the play “Twelve Angry Jurors;” Opera AACC will put on a concert called “Home for the Holidays: a Christmas Show;” and the AACC Dance Company will perform its winter production.

“I’m so happy with the actors,” Madeline Austin, the director of “Twelve Angry Jurors,” said. “The play is … so timely, it’s so beautifully written, so exciting, and driving. It’s dangerous. It’s exciting. I’m excited to do this.”

“Twelve Angry Jurors” is a play adapted from American screenwriter Reginald Rose’s “Twelve Angry Men.” The play, set in the 60s, revolves around 12 jurors deciding a murder case, and their “preconceived notions” and “prejudice,” according to Austin.

“Twelve Angry Jurors” will show on Nov. 3, 4, 10 and 11 at 7:30 p.m. and Nov. 5 and 12 at 2 p.m. in the Kauffman Theater.

Jackson Bondurant, who plays Juror 8, the protagonist of “Twelve Angry Jurors,” said “even though [the play is], like, happening 60, almost 70 years ago, it still kind of parallels what’s happening today.”

“I don’t really know a whole lot about the 60s,” Bondurant, who graduated in the spring, said. “I do know, like, a lot of the events that they mentioned around that time, it’s in a way kind of similar to what’s going on now.”

Doug Byerly, the artistic director of “Home for the Holidays,” said Opera AACC’s performance is “going to be a fantastic show.”

“We have some familiar [songs] and similar things that were recreated,” Byerly said. “We’re doing … works including Bach, Handels, … as well as some new contemporary pieces.”

“Home for the Holidays” will show on Dec. 17 at 3 p.m. in the Chesapeake Arts Center.

Will Kuethe, an eighth-year music student and member of the chorus in Opera AACC, said the performance of “Home for the Holidays” was going to be “nice.”

“It’s pretty cool,” Kuethe said. “I like the music and I like singing with everybody.”

Kuethe said this is Opera AACC’s second holiday concert.

“We’re trying to make it an annual thing,” Kuethe said.

Margaret Russell, the director of the AACC Dance Company, said she is “excited to work with [the] dancers” in their annual winter concert.

“I’ll be really excited to see them and work with them with different styles, kind of, coach them with different styles,” Russell said. “Also just to get to know the dancers a little more. Being their instructor in technique classes and a professor in dance history class, you don’t get to bond with the dancers as much as [you can] being the director of the dance company, so I’m really looking forward [to it].”

This story has been updated to correct the date “Home for the Holidays” will show.