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3/26/07

DRAMA 'SPINNING INTO BUTTER' TO BE PERFORMED AT ST. LAWRENCE

CANTON - Spinning Into Butter, by Rebecca Gilman, will be presented Wednesday through Saturday, April 4 through 7, in Gulick Theatre at St. Lawrence University. The production is directed by Ann Marie G. Halstead.

Admission is free, but tickets are required. They are available at the box office Monday through Friday, April 2 through 6, from 1 to 5 p.m.

Gilman received the Roger L. Stevens Award from the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays for Spinning Into Butter. The play was commissioned by the Goodman Theatre in Chicago as part of the Scott McPherson Award and premiered in their Studio in 1999. It premiered in New York in 2000 at Lincoln Center Theatre.

Set on the campus of a small college in Vermont, Spinning Into Butter explores the dangers of both racism and political correctness. When one of the few African American students at Belmont College begins receiving hate mail, the campus erupts, first with shock, then with mutual recrimination as faculty and students alike try to prove their own tolerance by condemning one another. At the center of this maelstrom is Sarah Daniels, the dean of students. As the administration sponsors public "race forums" and the students start their activist groups, Sarah is forced to explore her own feelings of racism. Her self-examination leads to some surprising discoveries and painful insights, the consequences of which even she can't predict.

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