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November 7, 2003: Volume 59, Number 9 |
The Chronicle
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'We Won't Pay!' continues in Yulman Theater
In a scene from We Won't Pay! opening Tuesday at Yulman Theater, Michele Curiale, left, and Kelley Baynes. |
The Yulman Theater presents We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay! by Dario Fo, directed by Prof. William Finlay, through Sunday, Nov. 9.
The play runs through Saturday, Nov. 8, at 8 p.m., with a closing show on Sunday, Nov. 9, at 2 p.m.
Tickets are $7 general admission, $5 for students, faculty and staff. For information, call the box office at 388-6545.
Hunger is a recurring theme in works by Fo, according Ron Jenkins, who translated the play and wrote program notes on the web site for the American Repertory Theater. "His characters are not just hungry for food. They are hungry for dignity, hungry for justice, and hungry for love. The protagonists are driven by their collective hungers to break free from the constraints in which their poverty has confined them. Their initial challenge to the laws of the 'free market' propels them into a comic defiance of the laws of human reproduction. Men get pregnant, women give birth to cabbages, and amniotic fluid becomes the source of a gourmet meal. The mechanisms of farce become metaphors for liberation. Slapstick confusion begets new ways of understanding the world."
For more on the play, visit the ART website at: http://www.amrep.org/past/wewontpay.html
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