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Cabaret, November 3-6, 1999, Theatre Arts Discipline

Theatre Programs

University of Minnesota, Morris production of Cabaret by Joe Masteroff and directed by Julie Rae Patterson-Pratt.

Synopsis: Cabaret takes place from 1929-1930, a time when Berlin, in the midst of a post-World War I economic depression, is transitioning from a center of underground, avant-garde cultural epicenter to the beginnings of Hitler’s totalitarian regime and the rise of the Nazi Party. Into this world enters Clifford Bradshaw, a struggling American writer looking for inspiration for his next novel. On his first night in Berlin, Cliff wanders into the Kit Kat Klub, a seedy nightclub overseen by the strange, omniscient and gender-bending …

The Trojan Women, November 14-16, 1999, Theatre Arts Discipline

Theatre Programs

University of Minnesota, Morris production of The Trojan Women by Euripides and Brendan Kenelley, directed by Brenna Jones.

Synopsis: This play follows the fates of Hecuba, Andromache, Cassandra and the other women of Troy after their city has been sacked, their husbands killed, and their remaining families about to be taken away as slaves.

Keep Tightly Closed In A Cool Dry Place, May 27-29, 1999, Theatre Arts Discipline

Theatre Programs

University of Minnesota, Morris production of Keep Tightly Closed in a Cool Dry Place by Megan Terry directed by James Allen Gappa.

Synopsis: Three men share a cell-- for life. They play games and fantasize about the event that brought them together: the hired murder of one prisoner's wife that was botched. This event is recreated with Sir Walter Raleigh and red men and Custer, and in recollections of rapes previously achieved.

The Wishing Stone, May 6-8 & 12-14, 1999, Theatre Arts Discipline

Theatre Programs

University of Minnesota, Morris production of The Wishing Stone based on a story by Wolfram Eberhard adapted by Alexander Barrett and directed by Amanda Petefish.

No Exit, February 11-13, 1999, Theatre Arts Discipline

Theatre Programs

University of Minnesota, Morris production of No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre and directed by Kelly L. Classen.

Synopsis: Sarte’s famous existentialist play follows three people to a room in hell, where their torture is revealed to be each other’s company. Three damned souls, Garcin, Inez, and Estelle, are brought to a lavish room to await their punishment. While they expected some sort of torture chamber to punish them in the afterlife, they instead begin to realize where the true torment really lies. Their constant arguing finally has Garcin state the famous line: “Hell is other people”. An exploration of human …