Silences and Salutations: Seven One Act Plays

Performing Arts - Theater: Main Stage Productions | November 6 – 22, 2009 every Sunday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday |  Durham Studio Theater (Dwinelle Hall)

Sponsor: Theater, Dance & Performance Studies, Department of

Peter Glazer, Artistic Director
A bracing exploration of love, life, laughter, and longing, this festival of short plays celebrates some of the most important and innovative playwrights of the 20th Century. The authors are Cuban, French, British, Irish, and American. Their plays, written between 1913 and 1992, share an astonishing use of the English language. Fornes’ snapshots of a love affair infected by violence; Stein’s gaming of melodrama, and foray into the morass of what happened; Ionesco’s logorrheic deconstruction of the mundane; Parks' darkly comic collisions of rules of engagement; and Beckett and Pinter’s trios, where three people, spatially confined, measure their lives – each of them entertains, and unsettles how we see the world.

PROGRAM A:
Salutations - by Eugène Ionesco- directed by Charlotte McIvor
Devotees in the Garden of Love - by Suzan-Lori Parks - directed by Godfrey Plata
What Happened - by Gertrude Stein – directed by Scott Wallin
Fri. Nov. 6 (7pm), Sun. Nov. 8 (3pm), Fri. Nov. 13 (10pm), Sat. Nov. 14 (3pm), Thurs. Nov. 19 (7pm), Fri. Nov. 20 (10pm), Sat. Nov. 21 (7pm)

PROGRAM B:
Salutations - by Eugène Ionesco - directed by Charlotte McIvor
Play - by Samuel Beckett – directed by Charlotte McIvor
Silence - by Harold Pinter – directed by Peter Glazer
Fri. Nov. 6 (10pm), Sat. Nov. 7 (10pm), Fri. Nov. 13 (7pm), Sat. Nov.14 (7pm), Sun. Nov. 15 (7pm), Sat. Nov. 21 (3pm), Sun. Nov. 22 (3pm)

PROGRAM C:
Salutations - by Eugène Ionesco - directed by Charlotte McIvor
Springtime - by Maria Irene Fornes – directed by Peter Glazer
Three Sisters Who are Not Sisters - by Gertrude Stein – directed by Marc Boucai
Sat. Nov. 7 (7pm), Sun. Nov. 8 (7pm), Thurs. Nov. 12 (7pm), Sat. Nov. 14 (10pm), Sun. Nov. 15 (3pm), Fri. Nov. 20 (7pm), Sat. Nov. 21 (10pm)

Plays will be performed Thursdays thru Sundays from November 6-22, 2009.
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Tickets required: $10.00 Students, Seniors, UC Faculty/Staff,  $15.00 General Admission

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