STILL MORE ON BIG LOVE
LSU Theatre performs delayed opener

Another advance article, this time from LSU's student newspaper The Reveille:

After much delay due to Hurricane Katrina, the world will finally have the chance to see LSU Theatre’s production of “Big Love” – just leave the kids at home for this one.

“The show does have mature themes such as murder, sexuality, language and cartoon violence,” said Vastine Stabler, director of marketing and public relations for LSU Theatre.

Nikki Travis, a Master’s of Fine Arts candidate who is playing the character of Olympia in “Big Love,” said despite the violence in the play, “Big Love” is a love story many students will be able to relate to.

“Love is a huge theme in this play,” Travis said. “There is anger and murder, but what it all boils down to is love.”

“Big Love” was written by Charles L. Mee and is a modern update of Aeschlyus’ “The Suppliant Women,” a story of 50 brides being forced to marry their cousins. The modern version of this story centers around three of these women, sisters Lydia, Olympia and Thyona as they either flee from or embrace love.

“I think that young people will be able to relate to being in love and not being sure if that person is the right person for you,” Travis said. “It is a universal theme.”

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Well, the article is nigh on incoherent, but any publicity is good publicity, I say.

We had a really good audience for the opening night performance Friday, lots of laughing and whatnot, but a somewhat smaller and quieter group on Saturday--it's hard to say whether they enjoyed it. It is a weird play, and it's tempting to assume that people from a smaller town like Baton Rouge just might not get it. On the other hand, it's an engaging and entertaining script. I just can't imagine that its vaguely avant garde nature would put off anybody who might set foot into a theater in the first place. I mean, we've got singing and dancing for god's sake! Who doesn't like that? We've even got rock and roll and Bach. I think they liked us last night even if they weren't laughing their heads off.

At any rate, I'm quite sure we've got a good show on our hands, myself.

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