Exquisite Torture opens at Todd Theater

he University of Rochester International Theatre Program will open its second production of the semester, Charles Ludlam's Exquisite Torture, on Thursday, December 7, in the Todd Theater in Todd Union. The play will run at 8 p.m. on December 7, 8, 9, 14, 15, and 16, and at 3 p.m. on December 10.

Exquisite Torture unveils the story of a fading, impoverished, and love-wracked Italian aristocrat and his passionate attraction to a woman he thought lost to him forever but who now has possibly been found. Based on Salvador Dali's remarkable novel Hidden Faces, Ludlam's idiosyncratic farce blends Jean Genet's The Maids and Luigi Pirandello's As You Desire Me.

Nigel Maister, associate director of the International Theatre Program, will direct the production, with set and costume design by Holly Laws. Lighting design will be done by Allen D. Hahn; composer and sound designer is Obadiah Eaves.

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