Georgia College & State University Theatre Presents the Celebrated Restoration Comedy by the First Professional Woman Playwright Aphra Behn, The Rover
Directed by Karen Berman
  
The Rover is a bawdy and delightful excursion into the love escapades of the men and women of the English Restoration during Carnival re-imagined for today’s audiences. Come for a Mardi Gras party in Italy, where 4 swashbuckling musical British cavaliers arrive in the 1660s reminding audiences of the Beatles invasion of the 1960s.
 
Sword fights, masquerade disguise, damsels in distress, and rock music make this a Carnival to remember!  The amorous adventures of the Englishmen in Naples during Mardi Gras create a topsy-turvy world of chases, mistaken identities, and love affairs.  The leader of the British cavaliers is Willmore, a rake and a rover, who arrives looking for fun.  An aristocrat Don Pedro is in charge of his sisters, Helena who is destined for the convent and Florinda, destined to marry a man she does not love.  The story unfolds as these feminist women revolt. 
  
February 25-28, 2009 at 8 PM and March 1, 2009 at 2PM
Tickets: $13 (general seating), $9 (GCSU faculty and staff, non-GCSU students and Senior Citizens) and $5 (GCSU students).  Group Rates Available!  To order, call 478-445-4226