Inaugural Performance Season for New Theatre Program

The new theatre program of the Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences is pleased to announce its inaugural 2005–2006 season. The season will feature The Burial at Thebes, by Seamus Heaney, Nickel & Dimed by Joan Holden, and the World Theatre Project, a series of staged readings and lectures.

The Burial at Thebes, Nobel Laureate poet Seamus Heaney’s translation of Sophocles’ Antigone, marks the debut of the theatre program, housed in the Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences Division of Humanities. Performances will run November 3–6. The Burial at Thebes was originally commissioned to mark the 100th anniversary of Dublin’s Abbey Theatre in 2004. Partly inspired by the war in Iraq, Heaney’s retelling of Sophocles’ tragedy gives Antigone a contemporary voice and parallels the world in which we live.

Joan Holden’s stage version of Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, journalist Barbara Ehrenreich’s New York Times best-selling book, is slated for February 24–26, 2006. Through the narration and actions of its main character, Barbara, Nickel & Dimed demonstrates the stark lives and times experienced by a third of working Americans today.

The final offering of the 2005–2006 season is the World Theatre Project, a reading and lecture series that will focus on international playwrights. The World Theatre Project is scheduled for two evenings, April 10 and 11, 2006. On each night a different play will be read. Following each reading will be a “talk back” discussion with the audience facilitated by an expert on the play’s country of origin.

All theatre program events take place on NSU’s main campus. For more information call (954) 262-8179.