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Private Lives, 1988, Theatre Arts Discipline
Private Lives, 1988, Theatre Arts Discipline
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University of Minnesota, Morris production of Private Lives by Noel Coward and directed by Laura A. Lehner.
Synopsis: In Private Lives, passion, laughter, romance, anger, and love set the stage for a battle of the sexes as divorced couple, Amanda and Elyot, find themselves unwittingly thrown together in Coward’s classic comedy of manners. Unknowingly booking adjoining rooms while on honeymoon with their respective spouses, Victor and Sybil, Amanda and Elyot are forced to face their true feelings for each other. Realizing they have made a pair of mistaken marriages, the divorcees attempt to escape their mismatched partners. With haste, and …
She Stoops To Conquer, 1988, Theatre Arts Discipline
She Stoops To Conquer, 1988, Theatre Arts Discipline
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University of Minnesota, Morris production of She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith and directed by Raymond Lammers.
Synopsis: One of the eighteenth-century’s most enduring comedies, She Stoops to Conquer takes a comedic, often farcical, look at the behavior and marital expectations of the upper classes in England at this time. The play centers around the desire of Hardcastle, a wealthy landowner in the country, for his daughter, Kate Hardcastle, to marry the well-educated Charles Marlow. Together with Marlow’s father, Sir Charles Marlow, they arrange for the younger Marlow to visit the Hardcastle’s house and court Kate. However Kate is …