West campus news Releases Archive
National festival taps ASU's St. Clair to stage 'Topdog/Underdog'
Mar. 14, 2005
ASU faculty member and Technical Director Charles St. Clair has been invited by the 2005 National Black Theatre Festival to stage "Topdog/Underdog"— the darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity by Pulitzer-winning author Suzan-Lori Parks—at the festival in August.
"Topdog/Underdog," a co-production of ASU's Department of Interdisciplinary Arts and Performance and iTheatre Collaborative, was presented to audiences at the Herberger Theater and at ASU's West campus in February to rave reviews.
"It's a tremendous honor to be invited to this prestigious event and to have the university represented in front of a national audience," said St. Clair. "We have accepted the invitation, subject to obtaining appropriate funding, and we're planning to remount the production for local audiences this summer to help defer costs."
The 2005 National Black Theatre Festival, now in its 16th year, will be held Aug. 1-6 in Winston-Salem, N.C. The festival attracts more than 55,000 persons nationally and internationally over its six-day period.
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