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The UU直播 Directing Class of 2008-9, under the guidance of Professor Myrna Wyatt Selkirk, celebrates their year of work with a festival of 10 one-act plays from around the globe.听 This year鈥檚 lineup includes a play-within-a-play, a film-within-a-play, and a cartoon-within-a-play.听 Also featuring stories about sex, love, and rock n鈥� roll (not to mention infanticide, AIDS, cancer, murder, and adultery), the festival promises to be an entertaining and provocative exploration of humanity and morality.听 So come experience the comedy of death and the tragedy of love.听 Even though there鈥檚 nothing for little ones, these final projects have something for big ones of all sorts.听 Evening shows are $5, Matinees just $3.

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How do you say goodbye to a lover? How do you move on?听 Daniel MacIvor's In On It weaves together the spiraling narratives of a dying man, two lovers, and a search for the right words.听 The play-within-a-play takes the intricate tapestry of accidents, control and letting go out from under your feet.

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A young couple checks into a hotel with their two small children.听 A week later police make a chilling discovery.听 Aaslt explores the motivations that drove two parents to murder their own children.听 Pol Heyvaert鈥檚 thrilling play is based on the 1999 homicide case in Belgium.

Directed by Rachel Paul Press Preview

Not every fairy tale has a happy ending.听 In Beth Henley's Sisters of the Winter Madrigal, the idyllic aspirations of two sisters clash against the violent realities of life in a medieval rural town. The entrancing images of love, lust, bestiality, and death dare you to close your eyes to wish the nightmare away.

Directed by Nathalie Selles听听听听听听Press Preview

How He Lied to Her Husband is the comedic tale a young poet, his beautiful muse, and her aristocratic husband.听 Henry is an idealist and a dreamer, but his adulterous poems to Aurora have suddenly gone missing. Does pure love casteth out all fear, or is Henry about to discover that even undying love has limits?听 George Bernard Shaw鈥檚 play bridges the gap between romantic boyhood and artistic maturity.

Directed by Alex Meikleham听听听听听Press Preview

Could an entire town be responsible for the murder of one man? Moises Kaufman鈥檚 The Laramie Project examines the fallout from a gruesome 1998 Wyoming hate crime.听 The voices of a prairie town emerge from over 200 interviews, searching to understand how such a thing could happen.

Directed by Chu-Lynne Ng听听听听听听Press Preview

Alan and Moira meet while undergoing cancer treatment at Princess Margaret Hospital.听 Their companionship and humour help them struggle against isolation and fear, even while their personal boundaries and Moria's worsening condition strain their bond.听 Adam Pettle's Therac 25 reveals how friendships form under the most difficult circumstances.

Directed by Rachel Penny听听听听听听Press Preview

Featuring the bacteriologist Dr. Koch and his live-in chef Typhoid Mary, Joan Schenkar鈥檚 Fufilling Koch鈥檚 Postulate mixes German expressionism and comic book tropes into an absurd 鈥渃omedy of menace.鈥� The play satirizes the artificiality of gender roles in domestic life and in hard science, but with death on the table, no one leaves unscathed.

Directed by Stephanie Ouaknine 听听听听听Press Preview

Exposing the America鈥檚 early reaction to AIDS, Paula Vogel鈥檚 The Baltimore Waltz rends the ridiculousness with belly laughs, then turns the pieces into a poignant, personal revelation about memory, illness, hope, and how we learn to talk about dying and the dead.

Directed by Dan Ruppel听听听听听听Press Preview

A breakneck ride through the Irish countryside, and a wind that would cut the arse off ye - Marie Jones鈥� Stones in His Pockets follows Charlie and Jake, two men cast as extras in a Hollywood film being shot in County Kerry, Ireland. After a local tragedy, the cast of the film (as played by Jake and Charlie) must pull together to overcome grief and restore hope.

Directed by Jess Kostuck 听听听听听听Press Preview

鈥淵ou gotta be a rock-and-roll Jesus with a cowboy mouth.鈥澨� Slim and Cavale are hiding from a society that has abandoned them.听 Living in a rock-and-roll fantasy, they play a series of increasingly violent games in a frantic search for sonic salvation.听 Based on the adulterous affair between playwrights Sam Shepard and Patti Smith, Cowboy Mouth is a testament to the power of sex, lobster, and rock-and-roll.

Directed by Eric Weiss 听听听听听听Press Preview

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