Sharing "Fragments"

Skidmore’s Department of Theater presents Fragments, by Pulitzer-winner Edward Albee, in Bernhard Theater’s intimate Black Box space. Curtain times are 8 p.m. March 2–4 and March 6–8, with a 2 p.m. matinee Sunday, March 5.

Just months after the renowned playwright’s death, director Shea Leavis ’17 brings one of his rarely produced plays to life. In the show, eight people gather and read aloud a series of proverbs, which lead them to begin telling stories—of the past, of dreams, of identity, and of fundamental questions about existence. Albee has said, “The piece proceeds as a piece of music does,” with words building, scattering, and exploding in rhythm as they address the human search for meaning in life and the struggle to connect to the world and to one another through storytelling.

For Leavis the play “searches for significance in the strangeness of everyday life and magnifies the importance of how people struggle to communicate with one another in an increasingly fractured world.... In Albee’s universe even the small act of sharing stories is something the human body relies on for survival and nourishment as heavily as it does the air we breathe.” 

Tickets are $12 general admission and $8 for students and senior citizens; to reserve seats, call 518-580-5439, email boxoffice@skidmore.edu, or visit theater@skidmore.edu.