The Black Box Series of the Sheila W. and Richard J. Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts presents Life Under Water, Richard Greenberg's comically piercing look into the bored lives of young adults who are spiritually starving in their affluent lifestyles.
Performances will be held in the Black Box Theatre of the Schwartz Center beginning Friday, April 19, at 4:30 p.m. Performances continue Saturday, April 20, and Sunday, April 21, at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets, $2 in advance and $3 at the door, can be purchased at the Schwartz Center box office, Monday through Friday, from 12:30 to 5:30 p.m., or at the door one hour before performance. Call 254-ARTS for tickets.
The setting is the Hamptons beach house where Amy-Joy and Amy-Beth take in runaway Kip. Kip is fleeing from his divorced mother's empty affair with a married man. Lives intersect in comical and bittersweet ways as some find romance, others disenchantment, topped by Greenberg's witty commentary throughout. Director Tim Leinhart '03 chose this play for its dead-on "reflection about the absurdities of life that get people literally stuck underwater, drowning in their own lives."
Life Under Water features the talents of Cornell undergraduates Amy Schleunes '03, Lori McNally '02, Jon Rich '05, Pilar Carillo '03 and Mike Delaney '05.
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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