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WKU Department of Theatre and Dance
2007/08 MAINSTAGE SEASON
Reservations: 270-745-3121
Information: 270-745-5845

Curtain for all performances 8:00 PM
EXCEPT SUNDAYS, when there will be
one matinee performance at 3:00 PM

Cairo Stories
by Tom Coash

September 27 through October 2
Gordon Wilson Lab Theatre
Admission: Adults: $10.00, Students & Senior Citizens: $8.00

Cairo Stories is a trilogy of short, one act plays by Tom Coash, a contemporary American playwright who spent a number of years teaching at the American University in Cairo, Egypt.

Ukimwi
This encounter between an American oil worker and a young Kenyan prostitute in a shabby Cairo bar offers a glimpse into the miasma of ignorance and superstition that haunt Africa's struggle with her devastating HIV epidedmic.

Khalass! (Enough!)
An unlikely romantic rendezvous on top of the great pyramid of Giza between Sara, an outspoken, proudly bohemian Jewish American girl working on location in Cairo with a film crew, and her new Egyptian friend Khalid is the setting for this light-hearted but revealing examination of the passions stirred -and squelched- by the complicated history of Arab - Israeli relations.

Veils*
Intisar, an African American Muslim girl studying at the American University in Cairo, and Samar, her "westernized" Egyptian roommate, discover that cross cultural friendships in a post 9/11 world require extraordinary courage and understanding.

* Commissioned by the WKU Department of Theatre and Dance. This production will be its world premiere!
SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER
 by Olvier Goldsmith

November 8 through 13
Russell H. Miller Theatre
Admission: Adults: $10.00, Students & Senior Citizens: $8.00
WINTERDANCE
 Featuring Student, Faculty and Guest Choreography

November 29 through December 3
Russell H. MillerTheatre
Admission: Adults: $10.00, Students & Senior Citizens: $8.00

SWEET CHARITY
Book by Neil Simon, Music by Cy Coleman, Lyrics by Dorothy Fields
Based on an original screenplay by Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli and Ennio Plaiano Produced for the Broadway Stage by Fryer, Carr and Harris Conceived, Staged and Choreographed by Bob Fosse

February 28-March 4, 2008
Russell H. MillerTheatre
Admission: All tickets $10.00

This award winning, perennial audience favorite about the romantic misadventures of the eternally optimistic dance hostess Charity Hope Valentine, features show stoppers Big Spender, and If My Friends Could See Me Now.
THE MEMORANDUM
 by Vaclav Havel

April 10 - 15
Gordon Wilson Lab Theatre
Admission: Adults: $10.00, Students & Senior Citizens: $8.00

This award winning comedy by Czech writer and politician* Vaclav Havel explores the nature of life under an absurdly bureaucratic regime.

*Havel was the 9th -and last- president of Czechoslovakia, and the first President of the emergent Czech Republic.

AN EVENING OF DANCE 2008
Featuring the Western Kentucky University Dance Company

April 24 through 29
Russell H. MillerTheatre
Admission: All tickets $10.00

Our traditional season closer featuring a diverse array of choreography from WKU dance faculty and distinguished guest choreographers.