Students in the Theatre Arts Program present “Middletown” by Will Eno at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Nov. 30, Dec. 1 and 2 in the Maureen Stapleton Theatre, located in the Siek Campus Center. Admission is free at all performances.
Eno’s play is a moving and witty inquiry into what it means to live out the “middle” of one’s life in a small town community where the middle of life begins right after one is born and lasts until one’s death. The college’s production is directed by Assistant Professor Roseanne Raneri.
As a friendship develops between longtime resident John Dodge and new arrival Mary Swanson, the lives of the inhabitants of Middletown intersect in strange and poignant ways in a journey that takes them from the local library to outer space and points between. Middletown features a wide array of characters — cop, mechanic, librarian, to name just a few — who together populate the play with Eno’s trademark subversive style.
“Will Eno is an original, a maverick wordsmith whose weird, wry dramas gurgle with the grim humor and pain of life,” — The Guardian. He has been called “a Samuel Beckett for the John Stewart generation.”
Published: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 13:40:44 +0000 by d.gardner