Theatre--Performance

AUI/AURA presents Stephen Karam's comedy-drama, Speech And Debate, at Cite Des Arts.  The dates are October 7,8,9, 14, 15 and 16 at 7:30 PM.  The 7th and the 14th are pay-what-you-can nights and the 8th is a benefit for Second Harvest of Greater New Orleans and Acadiana to help with Gulf Relief efforts.

Speech And Debate stars Adel Comeaux as Diwata, Topher Daniel as Solomon, Rachel Silliman Smith as a Teacher/Reporter and Nathanael Trahan as Howie.  The show was directed by Joseph Diaz and Walter Brown.

Three misfit students at an Oregon High School try to cope with alienation from their peers and the adults around them as they bond over 2 sex scandals--a public scandal involving the Mayor and a secret scandal involving one of their teachers.  If they can't turn to the adults in their lives or to their peers--can they turn to each other for help?  Are they mature enough to find their own way through the maze of lies and secrets?

Tickets are available through Cite Des Arts.  Call 291-1122 or go to citedesarts.org where payment for tickets is through PayPal.

(Pictured, from left to right) Kay Manuel, Rachel Silliman-Smith, Nathanael Trahan and Walter Brown 

(Pictured, from left to right) Adel-Catherine Comeaux, Nathanael Trahan, Rachel Silliman-Smith and Topher Daniel
(Photograph courtesy of Steve Comeaux Photography and Design)