SMU’s Meadows Theatre stages Balm in Gilead

by PegNews wire

It's the first full-length work by American playwright Lanford Wilson, and it's intended for mature audiences.

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