[Capdist-announce] RPI Players present An Evening of Performance 2010

[Tim Wickberg]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Event: The RPI Players present An Evening of Performance
Time/Date: Friday, February 19; Saturday, February 20; Friday, February
26; Saturday, February 27 at 8pm; Sunday, February 21 at 2pm
Location: The RPI Playhouse, RPI Campus, 15th Street, Troy
Telephone: (518) 276-6503


AN EVENING OF PERFORMANCE
Produced by Tim Wickberg

$10 General Admission
$8 Students/Seniors
$5 with RPI ID

This is the RPI Players’ annual night of one-act plays. This year will
feature:

WANDA'S VISIT
Written by Christopher Durang
Directed by Daren Domingos

An unhappily married couple have their relationship rocked by an
obtrusive, uninvited guest in the form of the husband's high school
sweetheart, Wanda. Wanda turns the couple's stagnant life upside down
while nearly driving them insane. As the play progresses, Wanda's social
faux pas and abrasive personality make the couple almost relieved when
she is kidnapped by two men directed by her kingpin ex-boyfriend.

WINTER FRUIT
Written by Allison Menzimer
Directed by Samantha Malanche

Winner of the 2008 Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences
Playwriting award, /Winter Fruit/ is a modernized re-telling of the
Greek tale of Persephone's abduction to the Underworld. After being
ripped from a familiar life of grass, music, the moon and a lover,
Persephone befriends two of Hades' servants who attempt to aid her
return to home "above". However, her imprisonment and resignation to
being an ill-made queen fades her memory and Persephone's perception of
what is "home" may very well change for good.

ARTIST DESCENDING A STAIRCASE
Written by Tom Stoppard
Directed by Tom Kinstrey

Tom Stoppard's /Artist Descending a Staircase/ is a comedic murder
mystery focusing on three artists. When Beauchamp and Martello come home
to find that their lifelong friend and colleague, Donner, has
mysteriously fallen down a staircase to his death, the artists begin a
series of flashbacks that uncover the truth behind their careers in art,
their experiences with a beautiful young blind girl 50 years before, and
the events leading to Donner's death.



The RPI Players is a student run community theatre. While RPI students
are the primary participants in the organization, auditions and
production roles are open to all community members.

For more information visit www.players.rpi.edu or
Phone: 518-276-6503
Contact: players at union.rpi.edu
For reservations: (518) 276-6503 or www.players.rpi.edu