WAUKESHA – Director Jeff Smerz has chosen a cast of nine – six University of Wisconsin-Waukesha students, one alumnus, and two community members – for parts in the fall UW-Waukesha theater production, Brian Clark’s Whose Life Is It Anyway? Performances will be 8:00 Friday and Saturday evenings, November 4, 5, 11, and 12, and Sunday, November 6, at 2:00 p.m.
Appearing in these will be students:
- Deborah Skidmore, Eagle, as the injured artist, Claire Harrison
- Stephanie Sell, Hartland, as Mary Jo Sadler
- Jared Cisz, Waukesha, as Orderly John
- James Boylan, Hartford, as Dr. David Scott
- September Olson, Wauwatosa, as Mrs. Louise Boyle
- Theresa Cinpinski, Hartland, as Margaret Hill
- Andrew Klauck, West Allis, as Dr. Paul Jacobs
- Jonathan Dorn, Sun Prairie, as Peter Kershaw
- Meg Cyrulik, Waukesha, as Dr. Roberta Barr
- Heather Marie Smith, Waterford, as Andrea Eden
- Alumnus Thomas Quirk, Wauwatosa, will play Judge Wyler.
Community members, both of Milwaukee, Benjamin Smith plays Dr. Michael Emerson, and Miranda Tully appears as Nurse Anderson.
Paralyzed from the neck down in an automobile accident, artist Claire Harrison only has the use of her mental and vocal facilities and wants to die. She uses her sharp wit and indomitable spirit to make us laugh but does not wish to employ those tools to evoke tears. She does, however, want to exercise a right to choose death and goes to court to claim it.
This morally provocative play appeared first on television and premiered on stage in London in 1978, where it won the Society of West End Theatre’s Best Play Award. Clark re-wrote it for a female lead, which is the version produced here, and in 1979 the play reopened on Broadway starring Mary Tyler Moore, who subsequently won a Tony Award for her performance.
Tickets are available from the ticket office, (262) 521-5212. They are $8 for adults and $7 for students and senior citizens (62+). All seating is general admission. Call the ticket office to request special accommodations.
UW-Waukesha has the largest enrollment among the 13 freshman-sophomore University of Wisconsin Colleges campuses. For information about programs, admission, or financial aid, contact the Student Services office at (262) 521-5200 or visit the Web at waukesha.uwc.edu.
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