DANCING AT LUGHNASA and AMERICAN MEDEA Set for Skidmore Theater's Fall 2014 Season
By: BWW News Desk Sep. 17, 2014
Skidmore College Department of Theater has announced its Fall 2014 Season. Details below!
DANCING AT LUGHNASA
By Brian Friel
Directed by Marie Glotzbach
Black Box Studio, Janet Kinghorn Bernhard Theater
October 16th-22nd
All shows at 8:00PM, except the Sunday matinee at 2:00PM
DANCING AT LUGHNASA explores the fragile harmony among five grown sisters in rural northern Ireland in 1936 juxtaposed against the realities of political and religious shifts and the oncoming industrial revolution. Reflected through the memory of Michael, the illegitimate son of one of the sisters, playwright Brian Friel reveals undercurrents of desire and longing, which he interweaves with motifs of music, dancing, and a traditional pagan festival. Cutting between Michael's adult and seven-year-old selves, Friel takes us back to the Ireland of Michael's childhood and tries to come to terms with the changes in both family dynamics and Irish culture. On this gauzy screen of memory, caring family ties and nostalgia filter together like a pattern of light and shading in a woodland glen.
SEATING IS VERY LIMITED, SO RESERVATIONS ARE A MUST!
AMERICAN MEDEA
Written and Directed by Holly L. Derr
Mainstage Theater, Janet Kinghorn Bernhard Theater
November 14-16 and November 20-23
All shows at 8:00PM, except Sunday matinees at 2:00PM
This provocative re-imagining of the Medea myth plays out deep in the heart of Texas. When a media circus descends on the rural cow town of Corinth, TX, to cover a gruesome filicide, a community must confront its own expectations and prejudices about motherhood, identity, and gender roles in a post-modern world. American Medea is an unflinching collage of story and culture, a new American myth based on our own contemporary Medeas.
All performances are held at the JANET KINGHORN BERNHARD THEATER, Skidmore College, 815 N. Broadway, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866. Tickets: $12 general admission, $8 students and senior citizens. For reservations or information, call the Skidmore Theater Box Office at (518) 580-5439 or email boxoffice@skidmore.edu . For online ticketing, refer to Skidmore College Theater on Facebook or Skidmore.edu/theater. For group sales, please contact Kathy Mendenhall at (518) 580-5431.
Pictured: Cast in rehearsal for DANCING AT LUGHNASA. Photo via Twitter.
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