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Warren Wilson Theatre will presents Sheila Callaghan’s new play,”Fever/Dream” March 4-7.
Shows Thursday-Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 2pm, at Kittredge Theatre on the Warren Wilson College Campus. Students of any sort are free with ID.
Warren Wilson Theatre presents Sheila Callaghan’s new play,”Fever/Dream”, an updated, hip and darkly comic version of the classic “Life is a Dream” by the Spanish Renaissance playwright Calderón. Callaghan’s play had its world premiere just this year at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, DC, attracting the national attention of playgoers and critics alike.
The play follows the story of the imprisoned Segis Basil, the son of big business executive Bill Basil. Segis, by the orders of his father, has been chained to a desk and forced to work in customer service in the basement of the Basil Enterprises skyscraper. Life is monotonous and unkind for Segis until a disillusioned bike courier and her nerdy friend discover him. Together, they rattle the whole office building, shaking-up ennui-stricken video-blogging corporate associates and uncovering executive plots on their way up the management chain. Released from his prison, will Segis succeed in transforming corporate culture in the age of new media, or will he be returned to his customer service dungeon and believe it’s all been a dream?
Playwright Sheila Callaghan has written numerous critically acclaimed plays for the modern stage and is currently a writer for the television series “The United States of Tara”, starring Toni Collette and created by “Juno” screenwriter Diablo Cody. She is the recipient of the Princess Grace Award for emerging artists, the Susan Smith Blackburn Award, and the prestigious Whiting Award.