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The three explore this mythical place after venturing all over the known world. While there, the three find artifacts of the then-current time period (the 1950s) and realize that they are actually discovering the future.

In addition to the frequent use of rather curious language, the play uses only a four-person cast. Maggie Anthony and Nicole Joy Brunsvold play sisters Mary and Alex. Junior Leah Starr plays third sister Annie, leaving Tim Daly to take on the roles of all other characters.

Starr said On the Verge is “a special challenge for [Tim], as he has to play all of these sorts of different roles in about hour timespan.”

Lending his directing talents to Hamline for the show is Rob Shimko, who has worked extensively at the
University of Minnesota, as well as the Minnesota Fringe Festival. Regarding Hamline theatre students,
Shimko said, “I’ve been thrilled by their artistic passions and intellectual curiosity.”

He expressed eagerness for the surreal aspect of the play to unfold, as it “invites the design team to go wild with scenery, lights, sounds, and costumes.”

Performances of On the Verge show at 7:30 p.m. in the Anne Simley Theatre on March 4-5 and 10-12.

Following On the Verge, HU theatre will move into the realm of provocative sex comedy as it stages Caryl Churchill’s controversial Cloud 9.

Characters are cast as actors of a different gender, and in order to question the roles and stigma that society has placed on race, gender, and sexuality, provocative dialogue is inserted, such as in this following excerpt.

Lin: “Don’t turn it into a lecture, Vicky, it’s meant to be an orgy.”

Victoria: “It never hurts to understand theoretical background. You can’t separate fucking and economics.”

The first act of Cloud 9 takes place in a British colony in Africa, and as it moves into the second act, jumps ahead 100 years to, according to Churchill, “end up in the changing sexuality of our own time.”

It follows the lives of people struggling to understand and cope with the roles that each is assigned in contemporary culture. Taking charge of this unique drama for Hamline is the third guest director of the season, Wendy Knox, a founder and the artistic director of the Minneapolis Frank Theatre. Knox has high hopes that Hamline’s production will turn out to be “a very powerful piece of theatre,” like the “highly adventurous, political work” put on by her own Frank Theatre. Performances run April 22-23 and 28-30.

The Alpha Psi Omega (APO) Theatre Film Festival and Dance Ensemble Showcase is in May, and ending the HU Theatre season are the Theatre Film Festival and Dance Ensemble Showcase.

The Theatre Film Festival, presented by the Hamline Theatre Fraternity, gives all students and faculty a chance to enlighten the campus with their theatre or video art talent. All students are encouraged to participate, and, according to the HU box office, registration is coming soon.

The festival will again kick off with the 24-hour theatre show - a show fueled by junk food and caffeine and created by theatre students locked in a room for a day with only their imaginations. The show will be performed on May 5 and kicks off the three-day (5, 6, and 7) festival.

Lastly, from May 12-14, the Dance Ensemble Showcase displays the Dance Ensemble’s final product of a year’s worth of choreography styles, learned dances, guest instruction, and experimentation. The showcase follows the film festival and concludes a year’s worth of Hamline University theatre near the middle of May.