February 21, 2007
Clark, Foxrock Company to perform Beckett's 'Endgame' at Foothills
  WORCESTER, MA—Clark University's ClarkArts and Higgins School of Humanities, with the Foothills Theatre Company, will present The Foxrock Performance Company production of "Endgame" by Samuel Beckett, from 8 to 9:30 p.m., April 4, 5, 6 and 7, at the Foothills Theatre located in the Mall courtyard on Commercial Street, Worcester.
All seats reserved at $20 each through Foothills Theatre's box office, 508-754-4018 or click here: Foothills.
Clark Theater Arts professor and Foxrock's artistic director, Raymond Munro, directs the cast of four, which includes Clark graduates William Sigalis '56 and Richard Roode '00; others in the cast are Sally Earle and Joseph Finneral.
These "Endgame" performances form the centerpiece of a weeklong homage arranged by Theater Arts in honor of Beckett's centenary, with theater people and Beckett devotees from overseas as guests of the department.
Samuel Beckett wrote Endgame in 1957, and translated it himself the following year from its original French into English. Written during the "age of anxiety" of Cold War posturing by the former Soviet Union and the United States, Endgame is set in a post-apocalyptic world. The four characters live out what could prove to be their final days in a bunker-like environment, each attempting—whether by connecting to the past or entertaining themselves with the routine inanities of daily life—to will themselves to live another day. The results are penetrating, profound, and hilarious. Indeed, the humor generated from this despairing situation is quite surprising, and shows Beckett's sure hand with tragicomedy.
Virginia Penta, Executive Director of the Foxrock Performance Company, says of Beckett's "dark, comic masterpiece": "Like most work of brilliance, Endgame, although written nearly fifty years ago, seems to be particularly relevant to our chaotic times."
Clark University is a private, co-educational liberal-arts research university with 2,000 undergraduate and 800 graduate students. Since its founding in 1887 as the first all-graduate school in the United States, Clark has challenged convention with innovative programs such as the International Studies Stream, the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the accelerated BA/MA programs with the fifth year tuition-free for eligible students. The University is featured in Loren Pope's book, "Colleges That Change Lives."
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