TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — The University of Alabama’s department of theatre and dance begins its 2015-2016 season with American playwright Sam Shepard’s drama, “Seduced,” Sept. 21-27 in the Allen Bales Theatre.
The play centers on the final days of a paranoid tycoon, based on billionaire recluse Howard Hughes. The idea of the American Dream and the consequences one faces to achieve it is a major theme in the production.
“He’s a billionaire who thought he could control things, conquer the American Dream,” said Raines Carr, director and a Master of Fine Arts student. “At the end of the day, he ended up controlling actions of people handing him things, serving him food and in his relationships with women. All of that control and money to understand the American ideal, and it didn’t work. All you really can control is the three feet around you.”
Billionaire Henry Hackamore lives in seclusion, but he is encountered by visions of two women from his past.
“He’s so lost being part of this myth that he cannot connect with others,” Carr said. “There are these two women that are haunted pieces of his past. One is old money Hollywood, and the other is a lower class showgirl. Neither one he really wanted, he’s stuck in the middle.”
Join UA Theatre and Dance in the Allen Bales Theatre in Rowand-Johnson Hall Sept. 21-27.
To purchase tickets for “Seduced,” visit www.ua.tix.com/ or phone the box office at 205/348-3400.
UA’s department of theatre and dance is part of the College of Arts and Sciences, the University’s largest division and the largest liberal arts college in the state. Students from the College have won numerous national awards including Rhodes Scholarships and Goldwater Scholarships.
Contact
Bobby Mathews, UA Media Relations, 205/348-4956, bwmathews1@ur.ua.edu
Source
William Teague, professor of theatre and dance, wteague@ua.edu