'Time Stands Still'
Time Stands Still, a work from Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Donald Margulies, takes stage at the Caine Lyric Theatre Sept. 23. The play runs Sept. 23-24 and Sept. 28-Oct. 1 at 7:30 p.m. The contemporary play opens Utah State University’s Theatre Arts Department’s 2016-17 season. The play contains adult content and language.
The plot looks at Sarah, a wartime photojournalist badly injured by a roadside bomb in Iraq. She is forced to return to her Brooklyn loft to piece her life back together with the help of her boyfriend, James. The audience also meets photo editor Richard and his girlfriend, Mandy. The play focuses on their relationships and Sarah and James’ prospects of a more conventional life.
“Are the media invasive ghouls due to their portrayal of war through stories and photos?” asks Adrianne Moore, the play’s director and head of the Department of Theatre Arts in the Caine College of the Arts at USU. “Or, are they providing an incredibly vital service so that the rest of the world knows exactly what’s going on? That’s a question that one of the characters really wrestles with.”
There is a particular niche that people who work in war zones occupy, Moore said.
“Sarah and James are working in an environment where there’s an extraordinary amount of adrenaline and their lives are at risk, but there’s also some attractive aspects of living life so much on the edge,” Moore said. “It gives their lives not only a sense of purpose but also a sense of extremity that they miss when they return to the United States. That way of living becomes an addiction.”
It soon becomes clear to James that Sarah is eager to return to the action while he is relieved to be away from the terror and bloodshed. Meanwhile, Mandy can’t understand why journalists simply record what they see rather than actively try to stop the violence.
Go behind the lens of this hard-hitting drama as it explores enduring love, everlasting friendship and the role the media plays in the coverage of tragedy.
Tickets for Time Stands Still are $13 adults, $10 seniors/youth, $8 USU faculty/staff and free for USU students with ID. For more information or tickets, contact the CCA Box Office in room L101 of the Chase Fine Arts Center on USU’s Logan campus, call 435-797-8022, or go to the Caine College’s website.
Related links:
Caine College of the Arts Box Office
Writer and Contact: Whitney Schulte, 435-797-9203, whitney.schulte@usu.edu
Max Falls as James and Claire Harlan as Sarah in the Utah State University production of the contemporary play "Time Stands Still," presented by Utah State Theatre and the Department of Theatre Arts at USU. The play runs Sept. 23-24 and Sept. 28-Oct. 1 at 7:30 p.m. at the Caine Lyric Theatre, 28 West Center Street, Logan.
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