CONWAY, Ark. (February 24, 2014) – The Hendrix College Department of Theatre Arts and Dance will produce the world premiere of The Hourglass Project, a play by Lee Blessing originally commissioned through the Hendrix-Murphy Foundation Programs
in Literature and Language and directed by Hendrix theatre professor Ann Muse, Wednesday, March 5 – Friday, March 7, at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, March 8, at 2 p.m. in Cabe Theatre.
Admission is free and open to the public. Reservations are recommended. Call 501-450-1343 for more information. There will be a special reception following Wednesday’s opening production with the playwright in attendance.
The Hourglass Project is “a speculative comedy about the future,” according to Blessing, and finds a wealthy couple experimenting on an indigent and elderly group to discover the fountain of youth through regenerative gene research.
An acclaimed playwright, Lee Blessing's plays have premiered at the Manhattan Theatre Club, the La Jolla Playhouse, Yale Repertory Theater and the Actors Theater of Louisville among others and have been performed at the O'Neill Playwrights Conference
in six different summers. His plays have been nominated for Tony and Olivier Awards, as well as the Pulitzer Prize, and have won the American Theater Critics Award and the George and Elisabeth Marton Award. Eleemosynary
won the 1997 L.A. Drama Critics
Circle Award. Blessing has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as the Guggenheim, Bush, McKnight and Jerome Foundations.
The Hendrix-Murphy Foundation Programs in Literature and Language are designed to enhance and enrich the study and teaching of literature and language at Hendrix College.
Check out rehearsal photos of the production at www.facebook.com/hendrixplayers.
Founded in 1876, Hendrix College is a national leader in engaged liberal arts and sciences education. For the sixth consecutive year, Hendrix was named one of the country’s “Up and Coming” liberal arts colleges by
U.S. News and World Report. Hendrix
is featured in the latest edition of Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change
the Way You Think about Colleges, as well as the 2014 Princeton Review’s The Best 378 Colleges, Forbes magazine's list of America's Top Colleges, and the 2014 Fiske Guide to Colleges. Hendrix has been affiliated with the United Methodist
Church since 1884. For more information, visit
www.hendrix.edu.