Adelphi University is proud
to announce that Jade King Carroll, a New York Theatre Workshop Fellow, will direct
The Basset Table by Susanna Centilvre featuring the students of the Department
of Theatre. The play will take place in Olmsted Theatre, which is located in
the Adelphi University Performing Arts Center (AUPAC), 1 South Avenue, Garden City, NY. Performances run from
March 26 through March 30, 2013 with most performances at 7:30 p.m. On
Wednesday, March 27, the performance will begin at 6:30 p.m. and there will be
a post-show discussion with the cast and creative team. On Saturday, March 30,
there will be a Matinee performance at 2:00 p.m. in addition to the performance
at 7:30 p.m.. A complete schedule is
available at aupac.adelphi.edu.
The
Basset Table was written by Susanna Centlivre,
and follows the fortunes of Lady Reveller. She runs a table where her friends
play the card game basset, and is in a struggle to avoid marrying Lord Worthy.
Meanwhile, Lady Reveller’s cousin, Valeria, spends her time conducting
scientific experiments and dissections, but her father intends to marry her off
to the bluff sea-captain Hearty. How can Lady Reveller be persuaded to forego
the delights of gambling? And how can Valeria avoid an unwanted marriage? This
witty Restoration comedy is filled with characters who revel in their gambling,
and their story is one in which deceit, not love, conquers all.
Jade King
Carroll is a former Theatre Communications Group (TCG) New Generations Future
Leader Award recipient, through which she was artistic associate at Second
Stage Theatre where Carole Rothman
mentored her in artistic direction. In 2010, Carroll was presented with the Paul Greene
Award for Outstanding Emerging Theatre Professional from the National Theatre
Conference and The Estate of August Wilson. Her credits include Lorraine
Hansberry’s A Raisin In The
Sun – Juilliard Drama; David
White’s White Baby - Passage Theatre; Nicole
Thompson-Adams’ Black Girl
You’ve Been Gentrified –
Joe’s Pub at The Public; Ellen McLaughlin’s adaptation of The Persians,
Scott Kaiser’s Splittin’ the
Raft - People's Light &
Theatre; Christina Hamm’s After
Adam - Playpenn; Sex on
Sunday – BE Company at Urban
Stages; and Zakiyyah Alexander’s The
Etymology of Bird –NYCitiParks
Summer Stages. Additionally, she has developed works by playwrights such as Kia
Corthron, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Chisa Hutchinson, Joshua Allen, and Zakiyyah
Alexander.
Celebrating its
fifth year, Adelphi University’s Performing Arts Center is Long Island’s
premier cultural arts venue for entertainment of all kinds. Tickets for this
play are on sale now for $15. Information is available at The Lucia and Steven
N. Fischer Box Office at (516) 877-4000 or boxoffice@adelphi.edu.
Check out
aupac.adelphi.edu for more on this event and others coming to the venue.
About Adelphi University: Adelphi is a world-class, modern university with
excellent and highly relevant programs where students prepare for lives of
active citizenship and professional careers. Through its schools and
programs—The College of Arts and Sciences, Derner Institute of Advanced
Psychological Studies, Honors College, Robert B. Willumstad School of Business,
Ruth S. Ammon School of Education, University College, and the Schools of
Nursing and Social Work—the coeducational university offers undergraduate and
graduate degrees as well as professional and educational programs for adults.
Adelphi University currently enrolls nearly 8,000 students from 43 states and
45 foreign countries. With its main campus in Garden City and its centers in
Manhattan, Hauppauge, and Poughkeepsie, the University, chartered in 1896,
maintains a commitment to liberal studies, in tandem with rigorous professional
preparation and active citizenship.
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