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Adelphi Theatre Department Presents One-Act Plays Suppressed Desires and Seaweed

Garden City, NY (09/16/2024) — Adelphi University's Theatre Department will present two, one-act plays from icons of the American Little Theater movement, of the early 20th century, Wednesday, September 25 through 29. The plays, Suppressed Desires by Susan Glaspell and George Cram Cook and Seaweed by Alice Gerstenberg will be directed by Triza Cox.

Gerstenberg's Seaweed explores the future prospects and dating escapades of twenty-somethings in the 1920s. It's "Sex and the City" but only four years after women received the right to vote. Gaspell and Cook's Suppressed Desires brings the audience into a 1914 marriage where a husband, wife, and her sister interrogate the psychological meaning of every conscious and unconscious utterance.

There will be six performances of the one-act plays including, Wednesday, September 25, at 6:30 p.m., Thursday, September 26 at 7:30 p.m., Friday, September 27, at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, September 28, at 2 p.m., and 7:30 p.m. (livestream available), and Sunday, September 29 at 2 p.m. All shows will take place in Adelphi's Performing Art Center's Black Box Theatre.

This production is a partnership with Hedgepig Ensemble Theatre, a New York-based company with a mission to explore the classics through the lens of gender equity. These plays were discovered through the curation of their Expand the Canon initiative (expandthecanon.com), a call to action to recognize classic plays written by women.

Tickets for Adelphi's Two One-Act Plays are on sale now for $25, with discounts available to seniors, students, Adelphi alumni and Adelphi employees. Livestream tickets are $20. For more information call the Lucia and Steven N. Fischer Box Office at 516-877-4000 or email boxoffice@adelphi.edu. Regular box office hours are Wednesday through Friday from Noon until 5 p.m. and the box office is also open two hours before ticketed events. Ticket sales and additional information are also available online.

The Adelphi PAC is one of Long Island's premier cultural arts venues for entertainment of all kinds. See more about other upcoming Adelphi PAC offerings at adelphi.edu/pac

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Adelphi University, New York, US, is a highly awarded, internationally ranked and powerfully connected doctoral research university dedicated to transforming students' lives. It is recognized for small classes with world-class faculty, hands-on learning and innovative ways to support academic and career success. Adelphi offers exceptional liberal arts and sciences programs and professional training at the undergraduate and graduate level with particular strength in its 'Core Four' academic areas: the Arts and Humanities, STEM and Social Sciences, the Business and Education Professions, and Health and Wellness.

Recognized as a Best College by U.S. News & World Report, Adelphi is Long Island's oldest private coeducational university. It serves more than 7,250 students at its beautiful main campus in Garden City, New York-just 23 miles from New York City's cultural and internship opportunities-and at dynamic learning hubs in Brooklyn, the Hudson Valley and Suffolk County, as well as online.

More than 119,000 Adelphi graduates have gained the skills to thrive professionally as active, engaged citizens, making their mark on the University, their communities, and the world.

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Adelphi Department of Theatre students in a past production at Adelphi's Performing Arts Center.

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