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upacreek120When MacRorie Dean (Denison University ’12), managing director of Up A Creek Cabaret Company, came home to Ithaca for the summer, she was dealing with the aftermath of a national campus epidemic:  rape.  Near the end of spring semester she was raped by another student, a total stranger who cried 'hook up' to avoid criminal consequences. 

So when Dean was approached by fellow Running to Places Alum, Eliza Vann (Fredonia State University ’13) to do a musical revue, she choose to comment on the full range of male female sexual encounters, including assault. The result is "Can’t Live With(out)Them," performed as a 1900s style cabaret:  funny, politically significant, and, at times, uncomfortable.

'Can’t Live With(out) Them' deals with dating, falling in love, relationships, and sexual assault. Directors Anya Gibian (Cornell University ’12), Travis Jones (Bates College ’13), and Tessa Cannon (Ohio Wesleyan ’13), along with Dean and Vann explore the deeper themes of relationships; those we create and those that shape our lives. 

"The show also includes monologues and scenes from our own voices," says Gibian.  "We started having conversations about what it means to be a man or a woman, how that makes us behave, what is it like to fall in love…and then we created theatre out of those conversations."

Can’t Live With(out) Them, a musical revue to benefit Running To Places, will be performed, one night only, on Thursday, August 12, at 10PM in the Gallery at the Community School of Music and Art, 330 E. State Street, Ithaca.  The show welcomes audience members ages 16 and up.

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