The senior acting company is presenting two plays at the Performing Arts Center (PAC) this coming weekend: “A Devil Inside” on Friday at 7:30 p.m. and “Hedda Gabler” on Saturday at 7:30 p.m.
“Hedda Gabler” is a work by Henrik Ibsen and directed by David Bassuk. This work is about an unhappily married woman bent on destroying her former lover because of the emptiness in her own life. Ibsen noted that Gabler is Hedda’s maiden name – he uses this to add dimension to her character.
Ibsen stated in 1890, “My intention in giving it this name was to indicate that Hedda as a personality is to be regarded rather as her father’s daughter than her husband’s wife.”
“A Devil Inside” is a work by David Lindsay-Abaire and directed by Christopher McCann. It is a gory comedy that exhibits a dark sense of humor. Lindsay-Abaire’s play in an interconnected tale of revenge. Main character Gene Slater is told by his mother to avenge his father’s death in a laundromat. This zany farce is thought to be a love letter to New York City, Russian literature, and the outrageous and absurd comic American playwright Christopher Durang.
“This is a play about different parties and their different experiences, and how what they say and do relates to each other. Also, what seems to be a series of random instances involves all parties,” said Master Electrician Alex Gendal, a design technology sophomore concentrating on lighting design.
Tickets cost $5 for Purchase students, faculty, and staff, and can be purchased at the PAC.