HEARTLAND THEATRE COMPANY opens MAURITIUS

Heartland Theatre Company opens MAURITIUS (by Theresa Rebeck) Thursday, February 16 on a Pay-What-You-Can Preview donation basis.  The play continues through March 4 and is sponsored by Drake Zimmerman and Jan Elfline.

The play, directed by SANDRA ZIELINSKI, features:  ANDREW HEAD, SARAH STONE INNERST, MICHAEL PULLIN, NANCY SULTAN and KEVIN WICKART.

ABOUT THE PLAY: “Betrayal and treason and poor behavior. A lot of poor behavior,” is how Theresa Rebeck has described her play MAURITIUS. At first glance, the play is about valuable stamps, unscrupulous collectors and two half-sisters with very different ideas about family, loyalty and what belongs to whom. But underneath…there’s plot and counterplot, scam and counter-scam, desperation and desire. All over two tiny scraps of paper printed wrong in 1847, now incredibly valuable because of that mistake. If only people were more valuable because of their mistakes…

[Adult Language & Violence]

Performances: FEBRUARY 16, 17, 18, 19 and, 23, 24, 25, 26 and March 1, 2, 3, 4 (2012)

Curtain is 7:30 PM for Thursday, Friday and Saturday night performances

Curtain is 2:00 PM for Sunday matinees

Panel Discussion Sunday, February 26, After the Matinee:

Panelists are Sandra Zielinski, Director and Professor of Theatre/ISU; Alaina Winters, Assoc. Professor of Communication/Heartland Community College; V. Loree Adams, Instructor, Sociology Department/IWU.  Free and Open to the Public.

Senior (65+) Discounts Thursdays 7:30 PM and Sundays 2:00 PM – $10.00

$12 Everyone on Friday and Saturday Nights 7:30 PM

One Normal Plaza, 1110 Douglas St – Normal Community Activity Center (Print out a user-friendly map from our website)

FOR RESERVATIONS CALL 309 452 8709 or email boxoffice@heartlandtheatre.org.

RESERVATIONS RECOMMENDED for all performances, except Pay-What-You-Can – no reservations taken on that night only.

1110 Douglas St.– One Normal Plaza

Normal Community Activity Center- Normal

FOR MORE INFORMATION:  www.heartlandtheatre.org