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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-CA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:13.2pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:118%'>UW Drama presents <i>An Experiment with an Air Pump</i> by Shelagh Stephenson in the Theatre of the Arts on March 10-12 and 17-19 at 8 pm. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:13.2pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:118%'>This play takes as its point of departure Joseph Wright’s 18</span><sup><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:8.0pt;line-height:118%'>th</span></sup><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:118%'> century painting <i>An Experiment on a Bird in an Air Pump </i>in which a scientist is placed “where you usually find God”. Stephenson’s play asks whether the scientist has a right to ‘play God’, and if so, at what cost when a life lies in the balance?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:13.2pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:118%'>As we travel back and forth between 1799 and 1999, we realize that although the context may have changed, the basic questions remain the same. We are still playing with life and death and aren’t really able to deal adequately with the serious ethical questions that come hand in hand with technological and scientific advances and our yearning to “change the world”. The story is also a vivid commentary on evolving gender roles within two unfolding, family dramas. Two marriages, intimately portrayed, form the prism through which we view the story.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:13.2pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:118%'>Finally, there is a bit of Agatha Christie in the telling as well. Some fun on the way and a mystery slowly unveiled which packs a powerful punch in the end. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:13.2pt;line-height:150%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%'>Tickets are available from the Box Office in HH, Monday-Friday noon-5:00 pm or call 519 888-4908. General: $17, Students/Seniors: $13.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:118%;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>