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Uncommon Women and Others focuses on five 1972 graduates of a prestigious women's college. The story of their college days is told in flashback based from a get together of the friends six years following graduation. Set on the brink of the age of the liberated woman, the play is a revealing look at how the ideals and expectations of women have both changed and remained the same over the last 30 years.
"The play presents women with a lot of depth and the script allows the actors to really develop the characters and explore the relationships between the women," said Director Megan Shea. "It's an interesting time for us to look back on women who were then deciding if they wanted to be schooled to be an intelligent wife or a career woman." Shea is a Ph.D. Candidate in Theatre Arts and is the first graduate student to be accepted to the new Advanced Graduate Training Program (AGTP) in directing. She has participated in Schwartz Center productions in a variety of capacities including serving as dramaturg for the past two seasons, playing Prim in last season's Comic Potential and Assistant Directing The Nero Project in 2004. Megan also appeared as the Duchess of York in Richard III and as AnnePage/Peter Simple in The Merry Wives of Windsor at the Cornell Plantations.
The talented cast includes: Anya Degenshein (Muffet Di Nicola), Blanca Hernandez (Holly Kaplan) , Gia Crovatin (Kate Quin), Ariel Reid (Samantha Stewart), Ashley Adams (Rita Altabel), Equity actor Carolyn Goelzer (Mrs. Plumm), Ashten Waks (Susie Friend), Katherine Karaus (Carter), and Barrie Kreinik (Leilah). The design crew features Christa Seekatz (scenery), Sarah Bernstein (costumes), Dan Hall (lighting), and Warren Cross (sound).
Evening performances of Uncommon Women and Others are February 14-18, 21-24 at 8 pm and afternoon performances are February 18 and 24 at 2 pm. A post-show discussion with actors and designers will be held February 22.