"The Madwoman of Chaillot" to be Staged at Rutgers-Camden

For Immediate Release

CAMDEN Students at Rutgers UniversityCamden will present Jean Giraudouxs comedy The Madwoman of Chaillot at 5 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 30; 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 1; and 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 2.

Written in 1943 during the German occupation, The Madwoman of Chaillot depicts a Paris rich with oil that some want to destroy for profit. Only an allegedly mad caf owner and her band of wayward comrades take a stand against corruption.

The production is directed by Paul Bernstein, an assistant professor of theater at Rutgers-Camden. Bernstein has taken a highly physical approach to the comedy, which he has set in the 1950s and against a cinematic backdrop of the destruction of Paris, and the world.

In keeping with the themes of the play we have turned the Gordon Theater upside down just as the Madwoman turns the immediate world on its ear. The audience will be seated as a kind of tribunal on the stage itself, says Bernstein.

Sponsored by the Department of Fine Arts, the student production will be held in the Gordon Theater, located in the Fine Arts Complex on Third Street, between Cooper Street and the Benjamin Franklin Bridge on the Rutgers-Camden campus. Admission is $8. Tickets are free for Rutgers-Camden students with identification. For more information, call (856) 225-6176.

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