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One-woman Show, “Dreadful Sorry Guys,” Coming to at USM on March 1

February 6, 2006

Claudia Stevens will perform “Dreadful Sorry Guys,” a musical monodrama, at 7 p.m., Wednesday, March 1, in the Hannaford Lecture Hall located in USM’s Abromson Center on the Portland campus. The performance is free and open to the public. 

Stevens was inspired to write “Dreadful Sorry Guys” after the 1999 murder of her friend environmentalist Gary Matson, and his partner Winfield Mowder, in northern California.  The hate crime, carried out by members of the World Church of the Creator was documented on PBS’s “Frontline.”  Utilizing music, staging, lighting and audience participation, “Dreadful Sorry Guys” suggests connections between the slaying of Matson and other acts of genocide. The text and original music is by Stevens, with additional musical excerpts by Debussy (”Syrinx”), Brahms (from Piano Concerto no. 1) and additional text by e. e. Cummings, (“n(o)w”) used by permission.

Stevens is a performance artist, playwright and composer who holds degrees in music from Vassar College, University of California at Berkeley, and Boston University. She is an associate professor of music at the College of William and Mary.

“Dreadful Sorry Guys” is brought to USM by the Women’s Studies Program. For more information, please call 780-4862.

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