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Theatre and Performance Studies

University of Minnesota Morris Digital Well

1995

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The Rivers And Ravines, November 16-18, 1995, Theatre Arts Discipline Nov 1995

The Rivers And Ravines, November 16-18, 1995, Theatre Arts Discipline

Theatre Programs

University of Minnesota, Morris production of The Rivers and Ravines by Heather McDonald and directed by Anne M. Ellis.

Synopsis: This is an engrossing political drama about the contemporary farm crisis in America and its effect on rural communities.


Alice In Wonderland, May 12-13, 1995, Theatre Arts Discipline May 1995

Alice In Wonderland, May 12-13, 1995, Theatre Arts Discipline

Theatre Programs

University of Minnesota, Morris production of Alice in Wonderland adapted by Brainerd Duffield and directed by Zachery Anderson.

Synopsis: Alice plunges down the rabbit hole and becomes involved in that madcap and deliciously satiric series of adventures immortalized by Lewis Carroll.


Stages, April 21-22, 1995, Theatre Arts Discipline Apr 1995

Stages, April 21-22, 1995, Theatre Arts Discipline

Theatre Programs

University of Minnesota, Morris production of Stages: four stories about love, heartache and all of the stage in between.

Synopsis: The Man in a Cas by Wendy Wassterstein -- Varinka is a free spirit in love with the older Byelinkov, the most proper man in town. But his inhibitions and worries about how he and Varinka are perceived when she boldly rides a bicycle about town threatens to unravel their impending marriage.

27 Wagons Full of Cotton ­by Tennessee Williams -- After Jake, a shady, middle-aged cotton gin owner, burns down rival Silva Vicarro's mill, Vicarro attempts to …


Marat/Sade, February 22-25, 1995, Theatre Arts Discipline Feb 1995

Marat/Sade, February 22-25, 1995, Theatre Arts Discipline

Theatre Programs

University of Minnesota, Morris production The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade (Marat/Sade) Peter Weiss directed by Michael Shiller.

Synopsis: In the Charenton Asylum in 1808, the Marquis de Sade stages a play about the murder of Jean-Paul Marat by Charlotte Corday, using his fellow inmates as actors. The director of the hospital, Monsieur Coulmier, supervises the performance, accompanied by his wife and daughter. Coulmier, who supports Napoleon's government, believes that the play will support his own bourgeois ideas, and denounce those …