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(Posted 1-22-04)
Contact: Dan Nonte, 336-334-5371

UNCG Theatre Begins 2004 on “Cloud 9”

GREENSBORO — In its first play of 2004, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Theatre will perform Caryl Churchill’s comic masterpiece “Cloud 9” Feb. 6-15 in Brown Building Theatre.

This parody of the English Victorian Empire and its rigid attitudes is part farce, part melodrama and part contemporary comedy. In Act I, the play follows an English family living in Victorian colonial Africa. In Act II, the family makes the leap in time and space to contemporary Britain, and the actors switch characters.

“‘Cloud 9’ addresses gender and class issues in an incredibly entertaining and fun way,” director Marc Williams said. “Most importantly, it delivers a message of personal responsibility. ‘Cloud 9’ teaches that if we are courageous, we can change the world.”

With nonstop sexual innuendoes, the play scrambles preconceptions about gender and romance, and is unsuitable for children. As Frank Rich wrote in The New York Times, “Churchill sees the theater as an open frontier where lives can be burst apart and explored, rather than a cage that flattens out experience and diminishes it.”

For the UNCG production, Chelsea DeSantis designed the sets, Maggie Clifton designed the costumes, and Lisa Tireman designed the lighting.

The play will be performed in the Brown Building Theatre at 8 p.m. Feb. 6, 7, 13 & 14; 2 p.m. Feb. 8 & 15; and 7 p.m. Feb. 11 & 12. Free parking for all shows is available behind the Weatherspoon Art Museum.

To order tickets by phone, call (336) 334-4849 on weekdays between noon and 5 p.m.  Tickets also are available at the University Box Office and one hour before curtain time at the Brown Building Theatre.

For more information, visit the Department of Theatre’s web site at www.uncg.edu/the.

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