Muhlenberg Theatre Association To Stage Comedy “Private Eyes” By Steven Dietz
Muhlenberg Theatre Association presents the comedy “Private Eyes” by distinguished American playwright Steven Dietz, March 21 – 30.Thursday, March 13, 2003 02:40 PM
Muhlenberg Theatre Association presents the comedy “Private Eyes” by distinguished American playwright Steven Dietz, March 21 – 30. Directed by Muhlenberg senior Laura N. Feliciani, the work will be staged in the Studio Theatre of the Trexler Pavilion for Theatre & Dance on the Muhlenberg College campus in Allentown. Tickets are $14, general admission seating. Call 484-664-3333, Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. for ticket reservations. You may also request tickets by visiting www.muhlenberg.edu/cultural/bakerand going to the calendar.
“Private Eyes” is a strangely romantic comedy about the confusion and heartache we spin out of telling lies. The play investigates a love affair of passion and deception that is twisted to a delicious frenzy in a funny, turbulent and time-bending journey. The journey sends the structure of the play and the audience’s perception of the players into a spiraling fantasy.
“Private Eyes” has the popular distinction of being one of the10 most produced plays in the American theater in 1998; the 20+ plays that Dietz has written have received several hundred productions in some 80 regional theatres across the country. His notable plays include “Lonely Planet,” which won the PEN USA Award in Drama, Outer Critic Circle’s Nomination, and Drama-Logue Award and re-staged was produced Off-Broadway at Circle Repertory Company in 1995; and “Still Life with Iris” (Seattle Children’s Theatre 1996) which won a production grant from the Kennedy Center’s Fund for New American Plays Award and also won the American Alliance for Theatre and Education “Distinguished Play” award.
Director Laura N. Feliciani ’03 directed the black box productions of “St. Valentine’s Day Massacre” and “The Problem” and directed for Muhlenberg Theatre Association’s “New Voices.” She was the assistant director of “Juliet and Her Romeo,” performed in productions of “Our Town,” “The Crucible,” and the black box “The Bride Stripped Bare.” She works with 4 and 5 year olds at Stage Door Workshop, is a drama counselor for City Space program, and was a drama counselor for Muhlenberg’s Camp Imagine Summer Program. Laura student-taught for her Education Degree last fall semester and is a Muhlenberg Scholar.
The acting ensemble includes Robbie Saenz de Viteri ’04, Leah Elizabeth Goldstein ’05, Guy Newman, Dana A. Iannuzzi ’03 and Mia Scarpa ’04. The creative team includes designer Edgar DuPont, costume designer Susan Nester, lighting designer Susan Hamburger, and sound designer Paul E. Theisen, Jr.
