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THEATRE: "Arcadia"
October 20, 2004
MMC Theatre Production Workshop presents "Arcadia," by Tom Stoppard. Arcadia unfolds like a detective story as modern researchers working in a beautiful, old, stately English home try to piece together events that took place there almost 200 years earlier. Set in both periods, the comedy arises when the audience sees what really happened and then watches the amusing interpretation of the evidence. The play is rife with eccentric characters: a landscape gardener, scientific geniuses, good and bad poets, an egomaniacal academic, a mysterious hermit and some lusty ladies. There is romance, intellectual jealousy, and wit, all held together with a frame of modern physics and chaos theory. This production is performed by students in the Theatre Arts programs of the College with direction by Elizabeth Swain, set design by Robert Dutiel, costume design by Gail Cooper Hecht, and lighting design by Katie Gorum.
Performances: Oct. 20-23 at 8pm and Oct. 24 at 2pm, in the Theresa Lang Theatre. Opening night reception will follow the performance on Wed., Oct. 20th.
General admission is $10; $5 for seniors and students from other universities with valid I.D.; free for the MMC community with valid MMC I.D. For more information or reservations, call (212) 774-0760. (Reservations begin Oct. 6th, two weeks prior to opening night.)
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