Three local college theater programs are staging work by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Lynn Nottage. Collectively, it’s called, “NottageFest.” One play is being performed on each campus with an “intercollegiate finale,” Sunday, November 11th, at the Dixon Gallery and Gardens.
Southwest Community College, Verties Sails Building, Room 113
Crumbs From the Table of Joy (premiered 1995)
Directed by Sheila Darras
Oct. 26 and Nov. 2 at 12:30 p.m.
Oct. 27 and Nov. 3 at 7 p.m.
Oct. 28 and Nov. 4 at 3 p.m.
All tickets are free and available at the door.
The University of Memphis, Theatre Arts Building
Intimate Apparel (premiered 2003)
Directed by Dennis Whitehead-Darling
Nov. 1-3 & 8-10, 7:30 p.m. each night
All tickets are $25 for adults, $20 for seniors and students
Purchase in advance at www.memphis.edu/theatre/currentseason/intimate.php
Rhodes College, McCoy Theatre
Fabulation or, The Re-Education of Undine (premiered 2004)
The play is about Undine Barnes Calles, an ambitious African-American woman in the early days of the Obama era whose best-laid plans don’t go accordingly. On the brink of social and financial ruin, Undine retreats to her childhood home and forgotten family only to discover she must cope with her cruel new reality and figure out how to transform her setbacks into small victories.
Directed by Thomas King
Nov. 9 & 10, 15-18, 7:30 p.m. each night, except the 2 p.m. Sunday matinee.
All tickets are free,but reservations are recommended by contacting the McCoy Box Office at mccoy@rhodes.edu or (901) 843-3839
