School of Theatre and Dance Mainstage Series: Look Homeward, Angel
March 27-30, April 3-5
Showtimes: 7:30 p.m. Weekdays and Saturdays & 2:00 p.m. Saturdays and Sunday
It is fall in the fictional town of Altamont, Catawba, in the year nineteen hundred and
sixteen. Eugene has spent his young life juggling the needs
and demands of his overbearing mother to help run her seedy boarding house, “Dixieland.”
Financially and emotionally miserly, she is obsessed by the accumulation of wealth and property.
His father is an alcoholic and prone to very loud if not violent outbursts. On his sober days,
he is a stonecutter in great demand for his beautiful work, but still imprisoned by his failures.
Eugene slowly realizes his brother, too, will never break away.
Touched by eccentric and colorful travelers staying at “Dixieland”, Eugene
Gant has begun to yearn for the world outside what he has always known.
Nominated for multiple Tony Awards, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the New
York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best American Play in 1958, Look Homeward, Angel is an
adaptation by Ketti Frings of Thomas Wolfe’s semi-autobiographical first novel of the same name.
Concentrating on the last third of Wolfe’s story, the play vividly portrays in romantic hindsight
Eugene’s longing to go to college, of becoming a writer and breaking into the wider world.
An authentic American classic, this powerful yet tender play captures the sardonic humor and
the grief, both private and universal, of Wolfe’s story about a youth coming of age.
“One of the finest plays in American dramatic literature.” - The New York Post
This production is not affiliated with DeKalb CUSD # 428
Saturday, April 5, 2014 at 7:30 PM
Huntley Middle School, Auditorium 1515 S 4th St, DeKalb, IL
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NIU Students: $8 Non-NIU Students: $16 Seniors: $13
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