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Show Denver theatre brings culture to Evanston t At 1 in Kfl k -v, i Will PZ4hiA 11 Jr i : ! I - Chocolate or bullets? Which would you choose? In the Denver Center Theatre Company's production of Shaw's "Arms and the Man," playing in Evanston, Wyoming, you'll watch the beautiful Raina make that very choice! The production plays at the Davis Middle School, 845 Tenth St., in a 2 p.m. matinee on Sunday May 6. "Arms and the Man," the first publicly produced play by the great comic writer George Bernard Shaw, pokes fun at 19th-century notions of love and heroism. A "chocolate "choco-late cream soldier" invades the bedroom of a beautiful Balkan woman, who shelters him from his pursuers and then is forced to choose between his gruff charms and the blustery heroics of a dashing officer. The Denver Center Theatre production is filled with moonlit romance and vivid Balkan colors. Director Walter Schoen has been with the Denver Center Theatre Company for four years during which he directed "The Night of the Iguana," "Denver Messiah," Mes-siah," "The Seahorse," and "Waiting for Lefty." On Broadway, Schoen assisted Alan Schneider in the direction direc-tion of "The Lady from Dubuque," by Edward Al-bee. Al-bee. The Denver Center Theatre The-atre Company's tour of "Arms and the Man" was made possible, in part, by a grant from Mountain Bell. This is the first time Bell has enabled the company to take a production on the road. Other stops on the tour include Vernal, Utah, and Lander and Casper, Wyoming. Wyo-ming. The play is presented in conjunction with the Uintah Arts Council. Tickets, available at the door, are $6 for adults and $5 for students, senior citizens and members of the Uinta . Arts Council. : ,(j!y it, j,, Established in. 1979 as the professional resident repertory reper-tory theatre of the Rocky Mountain region, the Denver Center Theatre Company presents the classics of world theater as well as works by outstanding modern and contemporary playwrights. m " " - --m.-. T-TMf...- Jamie Horton as Sergius (left), Yolanda Lloyd as Raina (center), Gregory Mortensen as BluntschJi (right), and Caitlin O'Connell as Louka (seated) in the Denver Center Theatre Company's production of "Arms and the Man." |