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Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Human Race, WSU to co-produce major play
The Human Race Theatre Company and Wright State University Theatre will join forces for the regional premiere of the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama “August: Osage County.”
The 2008 play by Tracy Letts, which also took the Tony Award and has been dubbed play of the decade by Time magazine, will open both organizations’ 2010-11 subscription seasons.
The Sept. 23-Oct. 10 production in WSU’s 349-seat theater in the campus Creative Arts Center will represent the first major collaboration between Dayton’s resident professional theater company and its preeminent actor training program.
Human Race artistic director Marsha Hanna will direct the play about about three generations of a dysfunctional Oklahoma family brought together by the patriarch’s disappearance.
Cast and crew will be a mixture of professionals and students. WSU Theatre chair W. Stuart McDowell expects more than 100 students to audition. The university’s Center for Excellence in Collaborative Education, Leadership and Innovation in the Arts will sponsor the production.
For more information, call The Human Race at (937) 461-3823 or WSU Theatre at (937) 775-3072.
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