Photo by David Allen
From the Lesher Center for the Arts:
When:
January 25, 2013, curtain 8pm
January 26, 2013, curtains 2pm & 8pm
January 27, 2013, curtain 2pmRun Time:Act I: 35 minutes / Act II: one hour / Act III: 30 minutes plus two 15 minute intermission
A 20 year old treaty states that Princess Ida and Prince Hilarion are to marry when they come of age. That time has come, but Ida refuses to honor a commitment made on her behalf when she was an infant, and has gone off to the country to start a women’s university. There she teaches an interesting variation on Darwin’s theory: that man – not woman, just man – is descended from apes, and thus are inferior to women. The Prince, on the other hand, is an unabashed romantic, and decides to woo Ida and win her love. He and two friends make their way to the university, where they disguise themselves as women in order to enroll and get close to her.