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2011-12 Theatre Season to Begin Soon

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The 2011-12 theatre season at Lee University will soon be underway, featuring new “must see” plays and performances.

This season’s schedule will feature two special performances by the touring children’s theatre company ShoWagon of Theatre Memphis. ShoWagon’s performances are made possible by a grant from the Tennessee Arts Commission (TAC) awarded to Lee’s Theatre Department.

The theatre season kicks off with the play Wit written by Margaret Edson and directed by Assistant Professor of Theatre Dan Buck. Wit will run from Sept. 22-26 at 7:30 p.m. and Sept. 25 at 2:30 p.m. in the Edna Minor Conn Theatre (Vest 305).

Wit centers on a brilliant English professor known for her nearly-clinical dissection and analysis of the works of metaphysical poet John Donne. However, after she is diagnosed with cancer and her doctors put her on an experimental chemo regimen, she starts to feel like one of those poems. This funny, sad, and intelligent play reminds the viewer in vivid detail of Donne’s words “Death be not proud.”

On Sept. 29 the ShoWagon Theatre will perform The Adventures of Robin Hood and on Sept. 30 will perform The Big Bad Wolf Tells All. Both performances will be at 7:00 p.m. in the Dixon Center Auditorium.

The Adventures of Robin Hood comically recounts the tale of how Robin and Marian with the band of Merry Men defeat Prince John and the Sheriff of Nottingham as they recall how they met. The Big Bad Wolf Tells All includes the much-loved tales of Little Red Riding Hood, The Three Little Pigs, and The Boy Who Cried Wolf, all from the maligned voice of Big Bad.

Following ShoWagon will be the play Tartuffe by Moliere on Nov. 4-5 and 10-12 at 7:30 p.m. and Nov. 6 at 2:30 p.m. Assistant Professor of Theatre Dr. Christine Williams will direct the play.

Molière’s Tartuffe is a masterwork by France’s most celebrated comic playwright set in the realm of seventeenth-century Parisian high society during the reign of King Louis XIV. The character of Tartuffe represents those members of society who preach religious piety but do not themselves live by the morals they try to force upon others.
In the spring, Williams will direct the play Eleemosynary by Lee Blessing. Performances will run Feb. 16-20 at 7:30 p.m. and Feb. 19 at 2:30 p.m. in the Edna Minor Conn Theatre (Vest 305).

Eleemosynary focuses on the lives of three Wesbrook women through fragmented vignettes of their lives as they struggle to define themselves both as individuals and as part of a family unit. The story’s poignant and mature study of familial relationship highlights the human need for connection and forgiveness.

The final play of the theatre season is See How They Run written by Phillip King and directed by Buck. Performance dates are Apr. 14 and 19-21 at 7:30 p.m. and Apr. 15 at 2:30 p.m. in the Dixon Center Auditorium.

So swift is the action, so involved the situations, so rib tickling the plot in the London hit See How They Run that at its finish audiences are left as exhausted from laughter as though they had run a foot race.

Times and ticketing details for all performances will be announced soon.

For more information you may call 423-614-8343, email [email protected], or visit www.leeuniversity.edu/theatre.edu. Fans can also join the Facebook page “Lee University Theatre.”

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