The Student Experimental Theatre Organization

Recent Tragic Events
by Craig Wright
directed by Jay Harvey

Metcalf Theatre
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
April 1 through 4 at 7:30 pm
April 4 at 2:00 pm

Call the SIUE Box Office at 650-2774 for more information.
Tickets are on sale at the Box Office and will also be sold at the door. Admission is $5.00.

Does destiny exist? Do we make our own choices? Recent Tragic Events follows one individual’s struggle to put her life back together during the aftermath of the September 11th attacks.

It is September 12th, 2001; the setting is the Minneapolis apartment of Waverly, a young advertising executive. Soon to venture on a blind date amidst the television news coverage of the September 11th attacks, Waverly becomes preoccupied when she discovers that her twin sister, Wendy, a student in New York, has not been heard from. Waverly reassures herself that Wendy had no reason to be at the World Trade Center.

As the evening unfolds, Waverly and her blind date, Andrew, an airport bookstore manager, realize that they are connected by a succession of bizarre coincidences. As Waverly awaits word on Wendy, the date is complicated by visits from her crazed-musician neighbor, Ron, and his girlfriend, Nancy, and a startling visit from Waverly's great aunt, Joyce Carol Oates—played by a sock puppet.

CAST
Waverly Wendy Renee Greenwood
Andrew Gabe Cranston
Ron Rahamses Hibar Galvan
Nancy Jesse Askew
Stage Manager Marissa Panzeri