2008 Woodie Awards
Theatre to showcase four plays this season
Mike Bell
Issue date: 9/5/08 Section: Arts & Leisure
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This fall the UNO Theatre Department will present another season of four plays for all to come and enjoy.
"Picasso at the Lapin Agile," Steve Martin's first play, is a comedy about a fictional meeting between Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso in Paris at a bar called the Lapin Agile.
It is set on Oct. 8, 1904, and both men have a debate about genius and talent while socializing with a slew of other bar-goers. As Einstein explains his theory of relativity and Picasso becomes inspired to paint his next work, they are visited by another surprise great figure of the 20th century.
"Picasso at the Lapin Agile" has shows scheduled for Oct. 9 through Oct. 11 and Oct. 15 through Oct. 18 in the theater located in Weber Fine Arts Building.
The play will be directed by Amy Lane, who recently put together the UNO New Ways/New Works Festival. Tickets go on sale Sept. 29.
The second production is "Women of Troy," a play newly translated by Kenneth Cavander based on "Trojan Women" by Euripides.
After 10 long years of siege and bloodshed Troy has fallen to the Greeks. Picking up the day after the Trojan Horse, the story follows the fates of the women of Troy after the city has been looted, enslaved and their husbands murdered.
The gods watch and think of ways to punish the Greeks for defiling Athena's temple. Throughout the tragedy, the Trojan women lament the loss of their homeland.
"The Women of Troy" will be directed by Maire Cregan as part of her graduate thesis work. She plans to challenge perceptions of masculine and feminine power, abandonment, acceptance and hope in the face of despair.
Performances are scheduled Nov. 20 through Nov. 22 and Dec. 3 through Dec. 6. Tickets go on sale Nov. 10.
Third this season is "Waiting for Godot" by Samuel Beckett. Beckett's first play follows two tramps waiting for a mysterious man named Godot. Over two consecutive days, the two try to distract themselves the best they can while they wait for Godot, a man they say is an acquaintance, but in truth is barely known to either of them.
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