Margo Regan, a visiting theater professor at USC, will stage a production of Jane Anderson's play Defying Gravity April 22–25 at USC's Lab Theater in the Booker T. Washington Auditorium. Curtain times are 8 p.m., and tickets are $5 at the door.
Defying Gravity depicts the experiences of seven fictional characters whose lives, in the imagination of the playwright, are entwined with the launch of the space shuttle Challenger on the day it exploded. The characters include a schoolteacher, her daughter, a NASA ground-crew worker, a female bartender at the local tavern, a retired couple touring the country in their motor home, and the French impressionist painter Claude Monet.
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| Margo Regan |
"Defying Gravity is a montage of hope and faith," Regan said. "It's also an expression of our capacity to recover from catastrophe and move forward again."
Regan appeared in USC's productions of Look Homeward, Angel and You Can't Take it with You. Her directing credits at USC include The Baby Dance, also by Anderson.
Monet's curious appearance in a play about space exploration, Regan said, represents mankind's capacity to find beauty in overlooked places and its endless quest for the new.
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| Jane Anderson |
Anderson has written plays, episodes of television series, and feature films. Her best-known work is the screenplay for the award-winning HBO film The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom. Defying Gravity was her first play.
For more information, call Tim Donahue at 7-9353.
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