SMU’s Meadows Theatre stages Balm in Gilead

by PegNews wire

Southern Methodist University's Theatre Division at the Meadows School of the Arts is currently staging Balm in Gilead, the first full-length theatrical work by Missouri-born playwright Lanford Wilson. The play centers on the interactions of a number of social outcasts - junkies, prostitutes, drug dealers, hustlers, transvestites and politicians - as they converse and occasionally address the audience directly from the setting of an all-night New York coffee shop.

The production could be taken as a cautionary tale thanks to the frank discussions involving such dangerous undertakings as drug dealing and prostitution. The play was originally produced in 1965; the Meadows Theatre production is being directed by senior directing student Travis Ballenger.

Tickets for the play (which runs through Sunday, Dec. 2) are $13 for adults, $10 for seniors and $7 for faculty/staff. You can reach the Meadows Ticket Office at 214-768-2787.

posted by JM