Upcoming: The Baltimore Waltz, Transit Theatre Troupe, St. Edward's University, April 30 -

at St. Edward's University

presents

The Baltimore Waltz

by Paula Vogel

directed by Johnny Joe Trillayes
assistant directed by Benjamin Myers

April 30 - May 2, 9 p.m.

Location: Outside St Edward's University Campus Post Office, behind Main Building

Transit Theatre Troupe is an on campus non for profit theatre group that produces student run, site specific theatre.


This production and all productions by Transit are FREE to the public. Donations are accepted and all proceeds go to a local charity of the director's choice.
The play The Baltimore Waltz by Pulitzer-Prize- winning American author Paula Vogel is often described as a comedy about death. However, while it is a very funny play, it is by no means flippant.

With no hope of a cure for the ATD (Acquired Toilet Disease), a brother and sister set off for Europe to track down a mad Viennese doctor who may have the magic cure. On the way, Anna discovers new appetites lustily devouring European cuisine and European men while Carl takes in the museums. Through France, Holland, Germany, Anna frolics while Karl finds himself pursued by an ever more ominous "Third Man," a mysterious figure who wants to stroke his bunny rabbit.

The Baltimore Waltz is full of music and humour, fantasy and wisdom. Most of all, it is a tribute to the way the human imagination faces the inevitability of death – with deep courage – and with wild laughter.

Featuring:

Anna: Cassidy Shiltz
Carl: Conor Felch
Third Man: Michael Davis

Eurydice by Sara Ruhl, Mary Moody Northen Theatre, St. Edward's University, February 3 - 13

In Sarah Ruhl's world, stones can talk, the dead can send letters to the living, and the devil connives to send a fragile bride to her death so he can court her in the afterlife. On the far side of the river of forgetting, memory fades and the ability to read disappears. Young Orpheus, bereft in this life, telephones a long-distance information operator in an effort to try to locate his dead wife.

Despite the striking mythic beauty of its concepts, Ruhl's Eurydice made me profoundly uneasy last year when Different Stages did it at the City Theatre. Perhaps because the shade of Eurydice's father clings to his memories and continues to dream of her, despite the emptiness and unchanging nature of life after death.

Ruhl has a frank and direct consciousness of the all too transitory nature of this existence. She wraps that message in the reworking of the Greek fable of the musician Orpheus who braved the underworld and came close -- just that close -- to bringing his bride Eurydice back.

Jamie Goodwin as the quietly grieving dead father has depth, dignity and stature, in contrast to the simplicity of Nathan Brockett and Cassidy Schiltz as the eternally naive lovers.

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