And Baby Makes Seven poster

   

Department of Fine Arts
University Theatre presents:

And Baby Makes Seven
by Paula Vogel
directed by Dawn Larsen

    February 20-23, 2013
   7:30 pm Weds-Fri, 2:00 pm Sat
  
Performing Arts Center, Downtown Florence


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photos by A. G. Gourley
The Francis Marion University Theatre's 2012-13 season's winter production will be And Baby Makes Seven by Paula Vogel, directed by professor Dawn Larsen.  It will be performed in the Black Box Theatre in the Performing Arts Center downtown.

Anna, Ruth and Peter await the arrival of their newborn child, but first they must rid the crowded apartment of their three imaginary children.

"AND BABY MAKES SEVEN is a profound and clever comedy." —Drama-Logue. "What's remarkable about BABY—a really lovely play—is the sense of innocence and optimism that rises from potentially dark subject matter." —Philadelphia City Paper. "AND BABY MAKES SEVEN is a hilariously inventive play. Playwright Vogel's writing is witty and precise." —Daily Californian. "Don't you sometimes want to howl like a dog, giggle till you drop, pout, pitch a fit…eat like a pig, get-your-own-way-no-matter-what, fly off with the balloons? You can go to Esalen and take a Trans-actional Analysis weekend to learn about your Child Within, or you can see AND BABY MAKES SEVEN. The second way comes with brownies at intermission." —Providence Phoenix. "Filled with outrageous touches, AND BABY MAKES SEVEN offers one of those rare theatergoing opportunities where everything comes together in a string of magical moments. Be prepared to be enchanted seven times over." —Austin American Statesman. "What makes AND BABY MAKES SEVEN fascinating is its brilliant unsettling of our notions, not of sexual boundaries, but of the real. It is theatre that cleverly theatricalises the everyday in a way that is both startling and funny." —Age (Australia). "[BABY is] most original and important for its redefinition of family. What is one to make of a family in which the boundaries between illusion and reality, power and subjection, friendship and love, female and male, are so porous…and in which family members freely materialize and dematerialize. It is a celebration of narrative, of the power of the theatre to make fantasy real. It commemorates the childhood one never had, the friends wished for but never gained, the desires never acknowledged." —David Savran, Introduction to The Baltimore Waltz and Other Plays.

RESERVATIONS: Reservations may be made by calling 843-661-4444 between 12:00 and 5:00 pm.

The FMU Theatre's mainstage season will close with The Book of Liz by David Sedaris, directed by professor Keith Best and performed in the Hyman Fine Arts Center April 11-13, 2013.


For additional information contact Director of Theatre professor Glen Gourley in FAC 224, 661-1538, agourley@fmarion.edu.


Interested in working "behind the scenes"?  Contact Mr. Granath in FAC 222, 661-1536, dgranath@fmarion.edu.

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                            Baby Makes 7 Rehearsal
And Baby Makes Seven -- blocking rehearsal

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