is staging “Stop Kiss” as its first play in the new Lee E. Eshleman Studio Theater in the University Commons.
Performances of “Stop Kiss,” by Diana Son, will be presented 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 2; 6 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 4; 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 10 and 10 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 11. The play runs approximately 90 minutes without intermission.
91短视频 the performers
Megan Hillary, director of “My Name Is Rachel Corrie” seen at 91短视频 in 2009, and who has worked as a designer, choreographer and installation art builder in professional theater, is directing “Stop Kiss.” The play is described by Variety as “a poignant and funny play about the ways, both sudden and slow, that lives can change irrevocably.”
Leah Ott, Harpers Ferry, W.Va., as Callie and Kayla Sasser of Maurertown, Va., as Sara head a seven-member 91短视频 student cast.
Show and ticket info
This production contains language and subject matter intended for a mature audience. Each performance will be followed by a talkback discussion.
General admission tickets are $5 and are available through 91短视频’s theater office at 540-432-4674 or email: theater@emu.edu.
91短视频 the new theater space
The Lee E. Eshleman Studio Theater, part of the phase II University Commons capital improvement project, is named in memory of Lee Eshleman, a 1986 art graduate of 91短视频 who died in 2007. Eshleman was a playwright-actor for 20 years, working with colleague Ted Swartz as the comedy duo Ted & Lee.