Cambridge American Stage Tour (CAST) at St. John Fisher College 9/19/2013, at 7 p.m. One Performance Only

This week at St. John Fisher College for One Performance Only on Thursday 9/19/2013 , at 7 p.m. in Cleary Family Auditorium.
Admission: $5.00 for general public.
Free: for SJFC staff, faculty, satudents with ID.


Here's the scoop (with some repeated info):

The Visual and Performing Arts Minor Program kicks off the Fall semester with some exciting programming!

Get ready for Cambridge American Stage Tour’s  mesmerizing production of Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure

One Performance Only, Thursday, September 19, 2013

at 7 p.m. in Cleary Family Auditorium.

Tickets: $5.00 for General Public; Free for St. John Fisher Faculty, Staff and Students with ID. Open seating. Door opens at 6:45 p.m.

CAST's visit to our campus is sponsored by the Visual and Performing Arts Minor Program.

 A bit of background on CAST:

This September, undergraduate students from the University Of Cambridge will be travelling from England to perform Shakespeare ’s most perplexing problem play.

Now in its 14^th year, the Cambridge American Stage Tour (CAST) is proud to present Measure for Measure, featuring Cambridge’s finest actors, directors, designers and technicians.

Concerning Measure for Measure:

“Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall...”

As the sex trade spirals out of control in Vienna, Duke Vincentio goes

undercover, leaving the brittle Angelo in charge. Angelo rules with

tyrannical spite, but after meeting the enchantingly willful Isabella he can't

adhere to his own rules. Deceit, hypocrisy and scandal spiral out of

control, and Angelo's terrible ultimatum forces Isabella to confront the

entanglement of sex and death.

A bold casting move sees Angelo doubled with the brothel's Mistress

Overdone, exposing the play’s startlingly modern themes of political

corruption and the abuse of power.

Since 2000, CAST has been delighting audiences up and down

the east coast of the USA . The tour visits high schools, colleges

and professional theatres, performing to full houses and critical acclaim,

bringing the work of Shakespeare to as wide an audience as possible, and

helping audiences interact with the play and the company through its

specially tailored performance workshops.

This CAST performance marks the tenth visit to St. John Fisher Campus. Besides the one time performance on 9/19/2013 at 7 p.m., there will be two workshops on Friday, September 20^th 2013, in Dr. Uman’s Shakespeare class and Professor Barthelmes’s Acting Out Ireland class.

Don't miss this opportunity to see Shakespeare Theatre at its best!

M.J.Iuppa,  Director of the Visual and Performing Arts Minor Program

St. John Fisher College

Basil 121

585-385-8412