Frank Campailla, university writer
203-772-8224 / frank.campailla@quinnipiac.edu
Date: April 14, 2008
QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY THEATER FOR COMMUNITY
TO
PERFORM "WHITEWASHED" APRIL 17 TO 20 AT LONG WHARF
HAMDEN, Conn. - Quinnipiac University Theater for Community will present the original play "Whitewashed: The Rough Draft" April 17 to April 20 at the Long Wharf Theatre, Stage II, in New Haven. Quinnipiac theater professor Crystal Brian will direct.
Students are writing "Whitewashed," a multimedia production with documentary videos, images, theatrical scenes and monologues. "We'll explore why, as human beings, we seem hardwired to focus on our differences rather than our commonalities," said Brian, chairwoman of visual and performing arts at Quinnipiac.
"We'll examine prejudice, privilege, community and diversity from different perspectives by conducting interviews with people in the Quinnipiac and New Haven communities and examining our own experiences, ideas and feelings."
Theater students, students from Quinnipiac's School of Communications and communications professor Rebecca Abbott are creating the multimedia play with help from the West Haven Veterans Affairs, the New Haven police department, the New Haven homeless shelter Columbus House and other groups in New Haven.
Performances are at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 17; Friday, April 18; and Saturday, April 19. The performance on Sunday, April 20, is at 2 p.m.
Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for students and seniors. Tickets will be sold at the door. Group rates are available for groups of more than 10. To reserve tickets, call 203-582-3500.
Quinnipiac is a private, coeducational, nonsectarian institution located 90 minutes north of New York City and two hours from Boston. The university enrolls 5,400 full-time undergraduate and 2,000 graduate students in more than 51 undergraduate and 19 graduate programs of study in its School of Business, School of Communications, School of Health Sciences, School of Law, College of Liberal Arts, Division of Education and College of Professional Studies.
Quinnipiac consistently ranks among the top universities with master's programs in the Northern region in U.S. News and World Report's America's Best Colleges. Quinnipiac also is recognized in Princeton Review's The Best 361 Colleges. For more information, please visit www.quinnipiac.edu
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Media Contact: Frank Campailla, university writer
203-582-8653 or frank.campailla@quinnipiac.edu
275 Mount Carmel Ave., Hamden, Conn. 06518
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