Contact: Sammy McDavid
STARKVILLE, Miss.--"The Mineola Twins," which has been described as "a play in six scenes and four dreams," will be featured Feb. 27-29 at Mississippi State.
Performances will begin at 7:30 p.m. each day in the ground-floor laboratory theater of the university's McComas Hall. General admission is $5 for all.
Written by Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel and first performed in 1996, "Mineola" is a political satire set on suburban Long Island, N.Y., and centered around identical twins Myrna and Myra. Despite exterior similarities, the siblings are in constant arguments about personal conduct and family values that stretch from the 1950s to the late 1980s.
Sponsored by the communication department's Theatre MSU, the play will run in conjunction with the departmental-sponsored Communication Career Fair and Symposium.
Other theatrical events during the spring semester include:
--April 10-12, "Little Shop of Horrors," with book and music by Howard Ashman and music by Alan Menken. To be held in McComas' main auditorium, the long-running Off-Broadway hit will begin at 7:30 each night. General admission is $10; $5 for seniors, as well as MSU students, faculty and staff with identification.
--April 23-25, student-directed one-act plays, laboratory theater. Cast, directed and performed solely by MSU students, the performances also will begin at 7:30 p.m. Admission is $5 for all.
For additional information on the spring theatrical schedule, contact Jo Durst at 662-325-3203 or bdurst@comm.msstate.edu. Also, visit www.comm.msstate.edu for these and other departmental events.
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