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For IMMEDIATE
Release NOVEMBER 13,
2009
BALDWIN
PALYERS FINAL PERFORMANCE TONIGHT
TIFTON - The
Baldwin Players at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College wind up a three-night
performance of “Two Rooms” tonight at 7:30 p.m. in Room 319 of Conger Hall on
the ABAC campus. Admission is free to all ABAC faculty, staff, and students
with ABAC I.D. The cost is $5 per person for the general
public.
ABAC
Assistant Professor of Communication Keith Perry saw the play on Thursday and
called it “searing, haunting and powerful. It is not often that a performance
lingers and affects me afterward - this play is certainly one of those
occasions.”
The
play is directed by Dr. John Galyean. Parents should be advised that “Two
Rooms” contains mature themes and strong, potentially objectionable language.
The
cast includes Katie Jones, an agriculture education major from Dallas; Michelle
North, an early childhood education major from Tifton, Dr. Brian Ray, assistant
professor in the School of Liberal Arts; and Tom Mark, an educator in the Tift
County School System.
The
premise of the play involves a man who is held hostage in the Middle East by
terrorists. His wife waits traumatized at home. As homage to her husband, she
creates a room in their house that she imagines being like the room in which
the terrorists are holding him.
The
wife is visited several times by an investigative reporter and a State
Department emissary. They attempt to comfort her, influence her thoughts
and feelings, and prepare her for best-case and worst-case scenarios.
Ultimately, she deals with her own feelings about the value of hope,
dedication, loss, and panic as well as her opinions of the media in America and
U.S. diplomatic policies.
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