This weekend, MC’s Crimson Masque theater troupe will be performing “The Baltimore Waltz,” one of acclaimed playwright Paula Vogel’s best known plays. This award winning piece deals with the AIDS epidemic, relationships and loss in a comedic setting.

Director Janeve West, assistant professor of communication and theater arts, said that she chose this play among others because it was exciting, original and provocative, both in structure and content; and because she believed it would be a great opportunity and learning experience for the student actors.

West claims that the play is carried by the energetic, hilarious and creative performances given by the actors, who portray easily accessible characters, due to the play’s form. West said that the current production is more like a movie than a typical play, with its exotic locations, short scenes and overlay of multiple settings. Audiences will be intrigued by the dichotomies that arise between the settings, as it is not every day that a play presents multiple scenes at once.

The play will be performed in the WIT Theater in the basement of the Haldeman-Thiessen Science Center, which is a thrust configuration, presenting a very open, circular stage. West hopes to give students a unique and wonderful opportunity to present audiences with a hard-hitting and heavily ironic piece. The plays will run Nov. 2-3 at 7:30 p.m. and will conclude on Sunday, Nov. 4 with a 2 p.m. matinee. Ticket prices are $4 for all MC students, faculty and staff, $5 for senior citizens and other students and $6 for adults. For reservations, please call 457-2104 or e-mail theater@monm.edu.

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