Starr Williams
  • Theatre
  • Class of 2018
  • Port Jervis, NY

Starr Williams Featured in Cast and Crew for 'Blood Wedding' Play at SUNY Potsdam

2017 Oct 24

SUNY Potsdam's Department of Theatre and Dance is set to debut its production of Federico Garcia Lorca's "Blood Wedding," running from Nov. 1 to 5 in the Performing Arts Center.

The student cast and crew includes Starr Williams of Port Jervis, NY, who plays the role of the Mother-in-Law and is also the props manager.

Directed by Assistant Professor of Theatre Dr. Rivka Rocchio, the 90-minute play is a surreal tragedy about a death-bound love triangle of a bride, bridegroom and Leonardo. Doomed love, fate and revenge hang over the world of the play and the abstracted shadowy characters therein.

The mixture of realism, expressionism and surrealism will leave the audience at the edge of their seats -- which, incidentally, will be located on the stage for this unconventional performance.

"Audience members will be seated on the Proscenium Theater stage, watching performers in a play space that ranges from the typical stage, to all around the house and balcony," Rocchio said. "We chose to use non-traditional staging to create an intimacy between the audience and performers that increases the feeling of tragic inevitability with the story of the doomed lovers. We also hope to use the depth and grandeur of the theater space to evoke those same feelings of awe, expansiveness and loneliness that one experiences in nature."

For production and ticket information, please contact the Community Performance Series Box Office at (315) 267-2277 or visit http://www.cpspotsdam.org.

About the SUNY Potsdam Department of Theatre and Dance:

From directing, choreographing, acting and dancing to designing and technical work, theatre and dance are highly collaborative art forms at SUNY Potsdam. Students and professionals engage in creative problem solving, requiring the setting and meeting of long-term goals, and the analysis and understanding of movement and dramatic literature. The College's award-winning $55 million Performing Arts Center is home to the Department of Theatre and Dance. For more information, visit http://www.potsdam.edu/theatre.