Drama Department Presents The Physicists

The Drama Department presents The Physicists November 14-17.

View photos from a rehearsal of The Physicists.

11/13/12

The Randolph-Macon College Drama Department will present The Physicists November 14-17, 2012 in Cobb Theatre, in the R-MC Center for the Performing Arts. All shows begin at 8:00 p.m.

As with other works by the provocative Swiss playwright Friedrich Durrenmatt, this play teeters between theatre of the absurd and grotesque satire, between drama and philosophical introspection about the nature of knowledge and the responsibility of scientists to protect us from the implications of what they discover in the course of their research.

The setting is a sanatorium somewhere in Europe, and the three chief residents of the asylum are literally mad scientists. The hospital is staffed by comely nurses who share the unfortunate fate of being murdered on a regular basis by the very scientists they care for.

The play is directed by drama and arts management major Elizabeth Jean ’13 as her senior project in drama, and the set for the Drama Department’s first production completely in the round was designed by Tonia Leigh Bartlett ’14, an art history and English major. The show is under the technical direction of Professor of Arts and Scenography and Production Gregg Hillmar.

To make reservations, call the Box Office at (804) 752-7316. Tickets are $5.00 each and free for R-MC faculty, staff and students.


Note: The R-MC Drama Department will present A Christmas Carol December 7-13, 2012. The Box Office will begin taking phone reservations for A Christmas Carol beginning November 26.