For Immediate Release
October 19, 2009
Cañada College Presents "The Woman in Armor"
Fall theater production is written and directed by Cañada Professor Anna Budd.
The Cañada College Theater Arts program presents "The Woman in Armor", a dark comedy set in a future America where a young woman is confronted with several choices all while a mysterious woman - or ghost - haunts her world and her consciousness. The world premier of this play was produced by Three Wise Monkeys as part of the 2005 Bay Area One Act Festival.
Opening night is Thursday, Oct. 29 at 8 p.m. That performance will be followed by two more performances, Friday Oct. 30, and Saturday, Oct. 31. Both performances will begin at 8 p.m. The final performances will be held on Friday, Nov. 6 and Saturday, Nov. 7 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 8 at 2 p.m. Both Saturday performances will be followed by a Q&A session with the cast and playwright. All performances will be in the Flex Theater at Cañada College, 4200 Farm Hill Blvd., in Redwood City. Tickets are $15 general admission and $10 for students and seniors.
A special matinee performance will be held on Thursday, Nov. 5 at 1 p.m. for staff, faculty and students at the college. The performance will be free.
Tickets can be purchased at:
- At the box office an hour and a half before each show.
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Or reservations can be made by calling (650) 306-3396. NOTE: WE DO NOT RETURN CALLS TO CONFIRM your reservation unless there is a problem.
The story centers on Lily, a young woman living in a future America, who discovers that she can’t leave the airport. Mr. Stern, a humorless bureaucrat with the Office of Illegal Debt Management, reveals that she is being detained as an illegal debtor, her citizenship is revoked, and now she must work off her debt as a prisoner of the state, or face deportation.
But Lily and Mr. Stern are not alone in that office –a mysterious woman in medieval armor appears, urging Lily to resist. Lily chooses to cooperate, thinking she can appeal to Mr. Stern’s humanity. But conditions at the airport are unlivable. The food is moldy, the blankets thin and reeking, and Peter, a fellow detainee, is very sick, and getting sicker. And it’s looking as if there is no intention to release any detainees – ever.
Lily struggles with a stark choice: adhere to her beloved principles of non-violent communication, the last remnant of her more civilized former life - or accept that Mr. Stern is unreachable, the Department corrupt beyond reason, and join the morally ambiguous underground resistance. And all the while the mysterious Woman in Armor – ghost, angel, demon - haunts her world and her consciousness.
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For more information, contact Robert Hood, Director
of Marketing and Public Relations, at hoodr@smccd.edu or 306-3340
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