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11/4/02

'REVISION' OF SHAKESPEARE IN PLAY AT SLU

CANTON - Performances of the play Goodnight Desdemona (Good 
Morning Juliet) will be presented at St. Lawrence University 
November 6 through 9 at 8 p.m. each evening in Gulick Theatre. 
The presentation is open to the public, free of charge; tickets 
are available at the Gulick box office.
	Directed by Assistant Professor of Speech and 
Theatre Rhea Lehman and written by award-winning Canadian playwright 
Ann-Marie MacDonald, this joyous revision of Othello and Romeo and 
Juliet embraces a full measure of Shakespearean turns - swordplay, 
wordplay, dancing, cross-dressing, bawdiness and mistaken identities - 
in what reviewers have called both a "knee-slapping" and 
"intellectually ambitious" comedy. Goodnight Desdemona was originally 
commissioned and produced at the Nightwood Theatre, Toronto, 
in 1988, and has had over 50 productions in Canada, the U.S., and 
Great Britain. The play won the 1990 Governor General's Award for 
Drama and the Canadian Authors' Association Award.
	For more information, contact the speech and theatre 
department, 315-229-5192.

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