[NEohioPAL] The Bacchae Benefit Performance on January 9 at UA

[Slowiak,James R]

Benefit Performance of The Bacchae
Wednesday, Jan. 9, 7:30 p.m.
Daum Theatre in Kolbe Hall

UA professor James Slowiak’s provocative production of The Bacchae has been selected for performance at the prestigious Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival’s regional festival competition in January.

A special pre-festival benefit performance of The Bacchae will take place on Wednesday, January 9 at 7:30 p.m., in Daum Theatre in Kolbe Hall.  Tickets are $25, with proceeds offsetting the cost of sending the production to the festival.  The performance is for mature audiences.

Slowiak’s rendition shifts The Bacchae’s setting from ancient Thebes to Akron, where audience members sit around a communal table for soup and beverages while elements of vaudeville, gospel music, torch songs and ethnic dance are incorporated into the story. The play was one of only six full-length works chosen for performance at Towson University in Towson, MD.  The festival performance will be Monday, Jan. 14.

Also chosen for performance at the festival is one scene from The Merchant of Venice, directed by UA theater instructor Aubrey Caldwell last spring. That scene will be performed in the Fringe showcase at the Festival.  In addition, several UA theatre students will be participating in the annual Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship competition.

Founded in 1969, The Kennedy Center American College Theater is a national theater program involving students from colleges and universities throughout the United States.

For more information about the special pre-festival performance on January 9, call 330-972-8301 or e-mail concerts at uakron.edu.
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