Margo Lee Sherman's compelling solo performance is based on the actual words of contemporary American soldiers who have served in Iraq. Through a series of fragments and vignettes composed of quotes from an amazingly diverse spectrum of real-life characters, Sherman gets at the human cost of the war. From two gung-ho nineteen-year-old girls killed in combat to a long-time professional soldier who reexamined his beliefs in the wake of Abu Ghraib and became a conscientious objector, these remarkable stories, performed with Sherman's unique intensity and concentration, convey the many dimensions of this complex tragedy with power and immediacy, offering new insights.

Margo Lee Sherman has created over 30 critically-acclaimed solo performances over as many years. She was one of the early members of the legendary Bread and Puppet Theater, and has worked with Meredith Monk, Joseph Chaikin, Jean Claude van Itallie, and many other seminal artists of the off-off-Broadway movement. She has performed in twenty
countries--including performances of Samuel Beckett's Not I and Footfalls in Czechoslovakia in 1989, the first artist permitted to present Beckett there in two decades.

BLACK BOX STUDIO PRODUCTION
October 17 - 19 and October 23 - 26, 2008
All performances at 8pm except Sunday matinees which are at 2pm
The Insect Comedy (The World We Live In) by Josef and Karel Capek
Directed by ALMA BECKER

A wanderer who is something of a philosopher falls asleep after drinking in a forest. In his dream he observes the comedy and tragedy in the lives of the insects, whose problems and affairs are like those of humankind. The butterflies make violent love. The beetles hoard money and live selfishly. The ichneumon flies murder crickets and stuff their larders with food, and parasites greedily devour what others work to save. Finally the red and yellow ants wage war to see which shall have the right to travel a particular sunlit path between two blades of grass.

One of Shakepseare's most lyrical play, this is the first of his history series that continues with Parts 1 and 2 of King Henry IV and with King Henry V. The unpopular King Richard II, having bankrupted his country, banishes his cousin Henry Bolingbroke who later returns and deposes Richard. Richard is imprisoned, and later murdered while Bolingbroke is crowned King Henry IV.

WORKSHOPS PRODUCTIONS
The workshop program provides students with the opportunity to explore their interests in acting, directing and playwriting. Each semester, students develop theater projects in consultation with a faculty advisor, culminating with performances in the Rehearsal Studios. Workshops are generally in Studio A on the second floor of the JKB Theater at 8pm unless otherwise noted.