Theatre--Upcoming

This weekend, Acadiana theatre is having a ladies’ night.

Evangeline Players opens their produciton of Wendy Wasserstein’s Uncommon Women and Others, an early play from the Pulitzer and Tony-winning playwright of The Heidi Chronicles.

The show focuses on five old friends meeting for lunch seven years after graduationg from a prestigious women’s college. The reunion sets the scene for a series of flashbacks to their senior year when they were a part of the “uncommon group” who were going to be pretty amazing by the time they were thirty. Uncommon Women and Others is a play about choices.  It is also about struggles- the struggle to achieve and the struggle to remain an individual.

 

The cast includes Elizabeth Hunt, Katie Lamson, Sarah Hitchcock, Amanda Lyon, Kyla Cormier, Amanda Newbury, Taylor Dought, Adel-Catherine Comeaux, and Stacy  Broussard. Uncommon Women and Others contains mature subject matter and language and is intended for mature audiences .Show times are May 13, 14, 15 and  May 20, 21, 21 .  Friday and Saturday performances are at 7:30 PM and the Sunday matinees are at 2:00 PM. All performances are at The Duchamp Opera House in St. Martinville.  Tickets are available at Shamrock Office Supply (394-5574) or The Duchamp Opera House (394-6604) or at the door.

AUI/AURA is also presenting a staged reading of William and Judith, my new play. The reading will take place at 810 Jefferson St. (under the Juliet Hotel, near The Filling Station) at 8 p.m. on May 14.

In A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf posits that if Shakespeare had an equally talented, equally ambitious sister who dreamed of being a playwright, she would have been lost to history simply because she was a woman. The play imagines that sister — Judith — who arrives in London after being disowned by the family. She finds her brother struggling to write something worthwhile after two decades of success as a playwright. In this crucible, The Tempest is created, and that play’s creation could tear brother and sister apart.

The play features an impressive cast of local actors including Duncan Thistlethwaite, John Snyder, Kayla Lemaire, David Huyhn and Martha Diaz.  The show also features an appearance by Courtneay Sanders, an associate director of Playhouse Theatre Tulsa, which will produce the show in February 2012.

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---Cody Daigle
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