Sherri Marina and Justin Rose are members of the cast. Photo by Tom Jorgensen Season packages are now on sale for the 1998-99 University Theatres mainstage productions.
Individual tickets are also available.
The season's productions of classic and contemporary theater probe the human condition through humor and invention, realism and fantasy. In Cloud 9, now recognized as one of the landmark plays of the 1970s, Churchill tackles issues of gender, class, family, and race with daring comedy and theatrical flair. The story begins in the colonial Africa of the late 19th century, when the British mania for propriety was at its height, but when the Act II curtain rises on late 20th-century England, the empire and all its purported certainties have evaporated. The actors have switched roles and genders, and both values and identities have been sent reeling. Everything That Rises Must Converge, written by Flannery O'Connor, one of the UI's most distinguished alumni, will be a UI world premiere.