2010 College of Arts & Media Theatre Production Series
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UC Denver’s Department of Theatre, Film & Video Production announces its world premiere of William Leiren’s stage adaptation of the novel by Margaret Atwood.
The Handmaid’s Tale
Directed by Laura Cuetara
February 25, 26 & 27 and March 3, 4, 5 & 6 • 7:30pm
Eugenia Rawls Courtyard Theatre, King Center
855 Lawrence Way, Auraria Campus
Tickets: $12 General Admission • $5 UC Denver students
Set in the near future, in a totalitarian theocracy that has overthrown the United States government, The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, explores themes of women in subjugation and the various means by which they gain agency – the capacity of human beings to make choices and to impose those choices on the world.
The plot reveals a revolution has replaced the government of the United States with the Bible-based Republic of Gilead, a theocracy. The novel is narrated by Offred (“of Fred”), a 30-year-old woman who has been separated from her husband and young daughter, then sent to a brainwashing center. She is trained to be a Handmaid, obliged to serve any member of the hierarchy as birth mother of his children.
She is now on her third assignment, having failed to become pregnant in her previous two, so her time is running out. If she does not have a child soon, she will become an Unwoman, exiled to clean up toxic waste in one of the Colonies until she dies in two or three years. Unwomen, like Jews, African Americans, Catholics, and other groups considered undesirable by the Gilead regime are not allowed in Gilead.
The Handmaid's Tale won the 1985 Governor General's Award and the first Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1987, and it was nominated for the 1986 Nebula Award, the 1986 Booker Prize, and the 1987 Prometheus Award. It has been adapted for the cinema, radio, opera, and stage.
Kenneth King Center Box Office:
- South Entrance of King Center (facing St. Cajetan’s)
855 Lawrence Way, Denver 80204 - 303-556-2296 or http://www.ahec.edu/kingcenter/main/box_office.html
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- Night of show—the Box Office will open 90 minutes before the scheduled start time of the show.
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