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February 27th – March 1st
- Carleton Players present ‘Machinal’ by Sophie Treadwell at 7:30pm at the Weitz Theater directed by Prof. Roger Bechtel.
The story involves Helen, whose entire life has been dictated to her. She follows the rituals that society expects of a woman, however resistant she may feel about them, and subsequently marries her boss, whom she finds repulsive. After having a baby with him, followed by an affair with a younger man who fuels her lust for life, she is driven to murder her husband. She is found guilty of the crime and is executed in an electric chair.
Reserve tickets at: https://carleton.tixato.com/buy. There will be 50 standby tickets at the booth available the night of on a first come basis
- Come see Christopher Durang’s dark comedy about marriage and domesticity, directed by Sam Vinitsky and Patton Small.
Runs Thursday through Saturday, starting at 8pm, in the Nourse Little Theater
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March 1st
- You are invited to Carleton’s 2014 production of Eve Ensler’s Vagina Monologues, a student-produced and student-performed show. All proceeds benefit the Hope Center and the VDay Spotlight campaign (vday.org). The performance will take place at 8pm at the Carleton College Chapel.
Suggested donation $5-15. Information about purchasing tickets will be available shortly. Tickets will also be sold at the door. (No one will be turned away for lack of funds).
The Vagina Monologues, written by playwright and activist Eve Ensler in 1994, broke ground, offering to the world a piece of art like nothing it had seen before. Based on dozens of interviews Ensler conducted with women, the play addressed women’s sexuality and the social stigma surrounding rape and abuse, creating a new conversation about and with women. The Vagina Monologues ran Off-Broadway for five years in New York and then toured the United States. After every performance, Ensler found women waiting to share their own stories of survival, leading her to see that The Vagina Monologues could be more than a moving work of art on violence; she divined that the performances could be a mechanism for moving people to act to end violence.