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CAMDEN – A trio of famed comedies will be directed and performed by Rutgers–Camden students during April 11-13 and April 17-19.
The Actor’s Nightmare and Other Comedies by playwright Christopher Durang will be the final production by the Rutgers-Camden theater program for the 2012-13 season. Rutgers–Camden theater students Cooper Gorelick, Jake Hufner, and Sean Quinn will direct the one-act plays Wanda’s Visit, For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls, and The Actor’s Nightmare.
Performances will be held in the Black Box Theater in the Fine Arts Complex on the Rutgers–Camden campus at 7 p.m. on Thursdays (April 11 and 17) and 8 p.m. on Fridays (April 12 and 18) and Saturdays (April 13 and 19).
The Actor’s Nightmare and Other Comedies presents three of Durang’s most successful short plays. In The Actor’s Nightmare, an accountant is mistaken for an actor’s understudy and forced to perform in a nightmarish assortment of famous plays without knowing any of the lines. Wanda’s Visit concerns Jim and Marsha, a suburban married couple whose lives are turned hilariously upside down by the sudden arrival of Jim’s ex-girlfriend from college. For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls is a satirical homage to the plays of Tennessee Williams, particularly The Glass Menagerie, which the Rutgers theater program produced in February.
Durang is known for wildly inventive, hilarious one-act and full-length comedies. His recent play, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, currently is on Broadway after an extended Off-Broadway run at Lincoln Center. Additional Durang plays include Beyond Therapy, Sister Mary Ignatius Explains it All for You, and The Marriage of Bette and Boo, along with 40 one-act plays that frequently are produced across the country.
Tickets are $10 for general admission and $7 for students, seniors, and Rutgers faculty and staff, and will be available by advance reservation. A limited number of tickets may be available for purchase at the door. Tickets are free for Rutgers–Camden students and are available in advance at the IMPACT Booth in the Campus Center.
The Black Box Theater in the Fine Arts Complex is located on Third Street, between Cooper Street and the Benjamin Franklin Bridge on the Rutgers–Camden campus. Directions to Rutgers–Camden are available here.
For more information, contact the Rutgers–Camden Department of Fine Arts at (856) 225-6176 or via email.
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Media Contact: Mike Sepanic
856-225-6026
E-mail: msepanic@camden.rutgers.edu