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“Couples in Conflict” offers 3 plays, 1 wallop By: Staff Apr 15, 2008 Much is lost, yet some remains, in one-acts at UAA, April 25-27
ANCHORAGE, AK – “Couples in Conflict” is a program of three short plays of beauty and power to be performed at UAA over the last weekend this month. Collectively, the shows are about all of us who pass through life hungering for much, often settling for less, wary and hopeful, bitter and tender, frustrated yet clinging to our dreams.
Two of the plays are about man-woman relationships, Sandra J. Albert’s How Many to Tango? and Kristina Leach’s Supernova in Hamlet. The third, Terrence McNally’s Botticelli, explores the effects of war on those who fight.
HOW MANY TO TANGO? by Sandra J. Albert
Directed by Jennifer Clester
Hope may sometimes outlast a broken heart, but only if we’re lucky, foolish or stubborn. In Albert’s one-act, a young man and woman meet over the common ground of regrettable past affairs, an unlikely pair who nevertheless have something to teach each other to prepare for what lies ahead.
BOTTICELLI by Terrence McNally
Directed by Peter Porco
Academic brilliance, the games that people play, the clutch of Catholicism, one-upmanship, homophobia, and the need to kill or be killed in the jungle of 1966 Vietnam: The Odd Couple go to hell in McNally’s dark comedic one-act.
SUPERNOVA IN HAMLET by Kristina Leach
Directed by Aurora Pease
Two couples who seem to be in different parts of the universe nevertheless share the stage as well as the frustration of desire, the withering of connection and the search for a center of gravity. Kristina Leach's 4-character one-act is a vivid demonstration that no matter the closeness, we're still strangers to each other.
“Couples in Conflict,” a production of the UAA Department of Theatre and Dance, will run without intermission for approximately 80-90 minutes.
8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, April 25 and 26
3 p.m. Sunday, April 27
Jerry Harper Studio Theatre (“Black Box”), UAA Fine Arts Building
Tickets: $5 students, $7 all others, payable at the Fine Arts box office in advance or on day of show; call (907) 786.4849 for box office hours.
For further information, contact Prof. David Edgecombe at (907) 786.1792; Jennifer Clester at (907) 230.7409; Peter Porco at (845).464.7481; or Aurora Pease at (907) 232-2016.
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