The St. Olaf Theater Department presents
THE BALTIMORE WALTZ
Written by Paula Vogel
Directed by Jeanne Willcoxon
Written in 1989 one year after her brother died of AIDS, Paula Vogel’s BALTIMORE WALTZ imagines the trip she never took with her brother to Europe. Rejecting realism, Vogel’s Europe is a pop-culture landscape peopled by Strangelovian doctors, quinquagenarian little Dutch boys and Orson Welles wannabes. Ribald and absurd, the surreal journey of Anna and her brother Carl through Europe unfolds in a hospital lounge as Anna faces the death of her brother. At a time when AIDS was a death sentence and government response to the growing epidemic criminally slow, Vogel’s funny and moving play reveals both the ludicrous ineptitude and profound loss that she and many others experienced during the AIDS crisis of the 80s, a crisis that continues today as 33.4 million people live with HIV/AIDS worldwide.
CONTAINS SEXUAL SITUATIONS
FOR MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY
HAUGEN THEATER
General Seating
Thursday, October 3rd @ 7:30pm
Friday, October 4th @ 7:30pm
Saturday, October 5th @ 2:00pm & 7:30pm
Sunday, October 6th @ 2:00pm & 7:30pm
Tickets for this production are available online at http://fusion.stolaf.edu/tickets or by calling (507)-786-8987
St. Olaf Students get one (1) free ticket with their student ID.
Faculty/Staff/Retirees receive two (2) free tickets.
Additional tickets are $8.00
For special needs please call the main theater office at (507) 786-3240
Featuring:
Becca Hart as Anna
John Michael Verrall as Carl
Andrew Lindvall as the Third Man
Megan Behnke as the Stagehand