Rabbis, Priests & DMV Ladies, three short, sharp and scorching comedies by Christopher Durang, will be performed Sept. 28-30 at the Black Box Theatre of Cornell's Sheila W. and Richard J. Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts.
Performances begin Friday, Sept. 28, at 4:30 p.m. and continue Saturday, Sept. 29, and Sunday, Sept. 30, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets, which are $2, can be purchased at the Schwartz Center box office, Monday-Friday, 12:30-5:30 p.m., or at the door one hour before performance. Call 254-ARTS for tickets.
The first piece, "Business Lunch at the Russian Tea Room," is a thinly veiled diary entry. Chris, a playwright, meets Melissa, the pushy, caviar-eating, cell-phone-wielding output of the Hollywood studio system. The second piece, "DMV Tyrant," skewers the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles, as one man attempts to cut through two tons of red tape. Finally, "Funeral Parlor" is the story of a woman trying to mourn the death of her husband while an insane man cheers her on. Durang's keen, irreverent, blasphemous wit shines through each play.
Rabbis, Priests & DMV Ladies features the talents of Cornell students Daniel Antoniazzi '03, Michael Seth Benn '03, Lisa Courtney Morse '03, Jason Klein '02, Peggy Powers '02 and Kristina Watkins '02. The play is directed by Benjamin Shiffrin '03.
Four times a year, the Black Box Series offers students valuable opportunities to assume commanding directing, design and acting roles in small budget projects. The series allows the Cornell Department of Theatre, Film and Dance to feature its finest young talent in an experimental environment and is made possible through the generosity of Cornell alumni Leah Shampanier Gould and Harold Gould.
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