Texas Tech's Department of Theatre & Dance's production of Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike opens tonight at the MaedgenMainstage Theatre, throwing the spotlight on the department that director Jonathan Marks calls "terrific."
Written by Christopher Durang, a fellow Yale alum of Marks', Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike follows the comedic chaos that ensues when the movie star sister Masha comes home to visit the quiet Bucks County, Pennsylvania home of her siblings Vanya and Sonia with young boy-toy Spike in tow.
Marks said the Tony-award winning comedy fits the absurdist bill and adds variety to the theatrical canon of a typical four-year career of an acting student.
"It's a combination of his wicked sense of humor," Marks said, " and his satirical tic that has made him one of the leading Broadway playwrights, one of the leading American playwrights, along with a sense of pathos that is kind of new for him."
Tickets are available at the box office of the Maedgen Mainstage Theatre on 18th Street between Boston and Flint, for $18. Texas Tech students can purchase tickets for $5 with a valid TTU ID.
Tonight's opening performance will be at 8 pm, as well as at 8 pm tomorrow night and Saturday night. A matinee showing will be performed Sunday at 2 pm.
