FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 20, 1999
CONTACT: Lisa Lacher, (515) 271-3119
DRAKE THEATRE TO PRESENT COMIC MASTERPIECE
Three hundred years ago William Congreve, the famous Restoration English playwright and poet, sharpened his quill, dipped it in satirical ink and lifted the lid off London's high society. The result was the comic masterpiece, "The Way Of The World," which opens Thursday, Oct. 7, at Drake University.
In this timeless comedy, Congreve exposes the vanities, foolishness, fashions and moral ambiguities of the period, and introduces us to characters that we recognize only too well all these years later.
"The convoluted plot twists and weaves its way through infidelity, jealousy, deception, intrigue and comic disguise," said director Clive Elliott, Drake's visiting Daniel B. Goldberg artist in residence.
The Drake production updates the action to a luxury London hotel in the 1930s, but without changing a word of the original language. A cast of 18 plot and counterplot hilariously against the art deco hotel set.
Performances start at 8 p.m. Oct. 7, 8, 9 and 10 in Studio 55 of the Harmon Fine Arts Center, 25th Street and Carpenter Avenue. Tickets are $4 for adults, $2 for senior citizens and students, and free with a Drake I.D. Reservations are required due to limited seating. For reservations, call the Drake Fine Arts Box Office at (515) 271-3841.