WAUKESHA – The University of Wisconsin-Waukesha Lunt-Fontanne Ensemble will perform the female version of Brian Clark’s Whose Life Is It Anyway?, directed by Jeff Smerz, on Friday and Saturday evenings, November 4, 5, 11, and 12, at 8:00 and Sunday, November 6, at 2:00 p.m. in the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, located in the Fine Arts Center on campus as 1500 N. University Dr., Waukesha.
Tickets are available by phoning the ticket office, (262) 521-5212 and also will be sold at the door. The ticket office opens an hour before each performance. Admission is $8 for adults and $7 for students and senior citizens (62+). All seating is general admission. Call the ticket office to request any needed special accommodations
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.
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