LAMBUTH UNIVERSITY
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| Thursday, 14 February 2008 14:18 | |
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The Lambuth University Theatre will present the play Orphans by Lyle Kessler on February 21, 22, and 23 at 7:30 in the Hamilton Performing Arts Center. The three-man cast stars students Chad Stem and Darius Walls, and former student and Technical Assistant Jared Canada. Ticket prices are $10, $8 for senior citizens, and $5 for children and students, and tickets may be reserved by calling the Lambuth University Performing Arts Center at 731-425-3235. Alert: this play contains very strong language not appropriate for children. Later this spring the Children's Theatre class will be producing the play Tails: A Fairy Tale on Furry Tales, an award-winning musical about being different, which will be taken to St. Jude, LeBonheur, Vanderbilt, and other children's hospitals in West Tennessee. Tails was written by Dr. Gideon Koren for The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), affiliated with the University of Toronto. Dr. Koren wrote the play about self-acceptance as a response to his observations of profound way the self-esteem of children is affected by serious illness. Since 1992 the play has helped ease the anxiety and sadness of over 30,000 hospitalized children and their parents with weekly shows in the Bear Theatre at The Hospital (The Hospital's logo is a bandaged bear). Performances are staged by a cast of staff and volunteers, the first and only regularly performing company of health professionals based in a pediatric hospital. About the play Dr. Koren states "We wished to share our non-medical selves with our patients and their parents, in order to help humanize the hospital experience." In July 2006 Tails company celebrated 700 shows, and Lambuth is proud to bring this wonderful show to West Tennessee. |