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To reserve tickets for any of the following productions,
please call the Box Office at 404.504.1074.
Premiere production: Weekend at Oswald’s
By Ian Fuller and Val Wilson
Directed by Brent Rose ‘07
February 7, 8 and 9 at 8:00 p.m.
With a Special Midnight Show on February 8
Conant Performing Arts Center
In this biting farce of America’s Manifest Destiny, J. Edgar Hoover leads an iconoclastic cast of characters including JFK, Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio, Jack Ruby, Frank Sinatra, Lee Harvey Oswald, Rock Hudson, and Fidel Castro. Over a weekend, each of them will do whatever it takes to obtain a certain beautiful and mysterious blue negligee …or die trying.
Tickets: $7 for seniors and students / free with Oglethorpe ID. General seating. For information call 404.504.1074. Mature content.
The Vagina Monologues
By Eve Ensler
Directed by Heather DeVaney ‘09
February 15, 16 and 17 at 8:00 p.m.
Lupton Auditorium
The women of Oglethorpe University present a special Valentine week production of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues, supported by the Theatre Department. The performance features women’s lively accounts about what it means to be female. Their stories are funny and moving, forthright and refreshingly open. A special benefit to end violence against women.
Tickets: $5 general admission, $2 for students with OU ID. For information call 404-504-1074. Mature content.
Our Town with Del Hamilton as the Stage Manager
By Thornton Wilder
Directed by Deborah Merola
March 6, 7 and 8 at 8 p.m.
Conant Performing Arts Center
In a fresh look at this classic American play, consummate actor Del Hamilton, Artistic Director of 7 Stages, brings the wisdom and perspective of his years to the created world of Our Town. The Stage Manager becomes a kind of Prospero figure from Shakespeare’s The Tempest, summoning and then releasing his young charges into the responsibility of their own humanity.
W*A*S*P by Steve Martin
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A Fiction by Sasha McCurdy
Directed by Zoe Martez Cooper ‘08 and Sara Troficanto ‘08
April 10, 11 and 12 at 8 p.m.
With a special midnight show on April 11
Conant Performing Arts Center
Two student directors take a hand at two original plays performed in repertory:
W*A*S*P, by comedian/playwright Steve Martin, begins as a normal family dinner but quickly digresses into a search for meaning and conflict over mango jello. Despite their individual weirdness, we can identify with each family member as they try to make their family work.
A Fiction, in a premiere production, is about a young woman's attempt to live a life that is as frighteningly unreal as it is real. Follow Lauralai through her painfully honest and often comedic world in which drugs, unexpected friends, and abusive lizards are a part of the norm that she struggles to stabilize.
Tickets: $5 general admission, free to the OU community with ID. For information call 404-504-1074.
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