Student-Directed Play to Open Mar. 1

March 1-3 at 8:00 p.m., March 4 at 2:00 p.m.
Fallout Theater, Blocker 144
Tickets $5 at the door

“Two Rooms,” written by Lee Blessing and directed by Vicky Végh ’07, is a play set in the late 1980’s that deals with the Lebanon Hostage Crisis from 1982-1992. The play’s title comes from the stage setting one space that serves as two rooms, one in Washington D.C. and one in Beirut.

The play revolves around Michael Wells, a professor at the American University in Beirut who has been taken hostage, and his wife, Lainie Wells, who is dealing with a State Department representative and an overzealous reporter in her attempts to free her husband. The play covers a span of three years and shows many scenes of Lainie's pain and Michael's captivity.

While the characters are fictionalized, the events surrounding the characters refer to real events during the Lebanon Hostage Crisis.

Vicky Végh ’07, student director, is a theatre arts/English double major with a minor in anthropology. After completing the directing class (THAR 320), Végh had the opportunity to submit a proposal for the chance to direct and was chosen as this year’s student director.

Végh, who plans to pursue her acting and directing career in Chicago after graduating in May, said “This is my first play to direct, but I've enjoyed the experience so much I can't wait for the next one.”

Join the Department of Performance Studies and director Vicky Végh, in association with The Aggie Players, for a performance you won’t want to miss.

Contact: Blair Williamson, 979.458.1347, bwilliamson@libarts.tamu.edu or
Pat Nies, 979.845.2588, patnies@tamu.edu