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10/05/07
Pomona College Theatre Presents “Melancholy Play” by Sarah Ruhl—Pulitzer Prize Finalist |
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The Pomona College Department of Theatre & Dance and Theatre
for the Claremont Colleges present Pulitzer Prize Finalist
Sarah Ruhl’s, Melancholy Play.
Performances are Oct. 11-13 at 8 p.m., and Oct. 13 & 14 at 2
p.m.
In Melancholy Play a group of cheerful Americans living in
Illinois, content with their lives and comfortable positions
in society, are shaken up by a mysterious, beautiful and
inexplicably melancholic young woman. Melancholy Play is
described by critics as “iconic and cinematic, bold,
outward, sassy, sexy and unashamed…a contemporary farce… a
sincere melodrama.” Cellist (and Pomona College math
professor) Ami Radunskaya will perform music by Michael
Friedman and provide additional original music.
In 2006 Ruhl was named a MacArthur Fellow. Her play, The
Clean House, was a Pulitzer Prize contender in 2005 and won
the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn
Prize in 2004. Her plays tackle life, death, religion and
politics and have been produced throughout the U.S. and
Europe at such venues as the Lincoln Center Theater (New
York), the Actor’s Centre (London), the Goodman Theatre
(Chicago), and the Berkeley Repertory Theatre, among many
others.
The play will be held in the Allen Studio Theatre, located
in the Seaver Theatre Complex (300 E. Bonita Ave.,
Claremont) at Pomona College.
Directed by Betty Bernhard, Pomona College professor of
theatre, ticket prices are $5 for faculty, staff, seniors &
students and $10.00 for general admission. For further
information, please call the Pomona College Seaver Theatre
Box Office at (909) 621-8525 or 607-4375. Box Office hours
are Monday through Friday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tickets are on
sale now.
The Pomona College Department of Theatre & Dance is the only
five-college theatre department in the world. Serving Pomona
College, Pitzer College, Scripps College, Harvey Mudd
College, and Claremont McKenna College, it offers
theoretical and practical work in all phases of theatre and
dance, within the context of a rigorous liberal arts
education. In addition to its academic offerings, it
produces a variety of plays and an annual dance concert. The
plays selected include classics old and new, contemporary
plays and experimental pieces. The productions offer
opportunities in performance, design and technical work to
all interested students of the Claremont Colleges. . |
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