Upcoming HWS Productions
Spring 2000
RAISED IN CAPTIVITY
by Nicky Silver
February 10, 11, 12
A cemetery is a strange place to begin a comedy, but what better place for
this comedy of regeneration and new beginnings? On the verge of celebrating
his "eleventh anniversary of physical and emotional celibacy," Sebastian
Bliss goes to his mother's funeral and realizes that he must at long last
put an end to his lengthy mourning for his lover, Simon, and begin life
anew. Against what at times appears to be overwhelming odds, and with the
help of an improbable cast of fellow questers, including his
weight-obsessed sister, his denitst-turned-painter brother-in-law, a
psychologist on a mystical journey, a convicted murderer, a hustler, a
newborn baby and his deceased mother, he begins to make his way back toward
life.
A bold, enertaining, and deeply moving comedy--for a mature audience.
SURENA
by Pierre Corneille
April 27, 28, 29
After decades of French theatre in which Pierre Corneille was neglected in
favor of Jean Racine, the tide has turned, and the Parisian stage has
recently boasted a surprising array of new interpretations by this baroque
master. Here at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, you will have the
rare opportunity to see Corneille's swan song--a masterpiece of
dramatic construction, an examination, by turns melancholy and enraged, of
a society in the process of self-destruction. Taken from the LIVES of
Plutarch, Corneille's poetic tragedy has been said to foresee the coming of
the French Revolution.