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Play: "Men On Boats"
Venue: Squires Studio Theatre, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Organizations: Virginia Tech School of Performing Arts
Date: Monday, April 25, 2022
Time: 7:30 - 9:00 PM
Event Types: Arts & Theatre
Cost:
General Public: $12.00 Seniors / Students: $10.00

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Description:
The Virginia Tech School of Performing Arts presents the play "Men On Boats" at Squires Studio Theatre within the Squires Student Center on the campus of Virginia Tech with eight performances starting on Tuesday, April 19, 2022 through Tuesday, April 26, 2022.

Performance Schedule:
• Tuesday, April 19th at 7:30 PM
• Wednesday, April 20th at 7:30 PM
• Thursday, April 21st at 7:30 PM
• Friday, April 22nd at 7:30 PM
• Saturday, April 23rd at 2:00 PM
• Saturday, April 23rd at 7:30 PM
• Monday, April 25th at 7:30 PM
• Tuesday, April 26th at 7:30 PM

Ten explorers. Four boats. One Grand Canyon. "Men On Boats" is the true(ish) history of an 1869 expedition, when a one-armed captain and a crew of insane yet loyal volunteers set out to chart the course of the Colorado River.

“…off-the-canyon-walls funny…” — Variety

“['Men On Boats'] is marvelously destabilizing both as history and theater. The stalwartness and selfishness of the adventurers — their cockiness and cluelessness — become biting satire when sent up by women.” — NY Magazine

“…you will surely want to spend time with the hearty title characters of "Men On Boats" … [a] rollicking history pageant… "Men On Boats" makes canny use of the obvious distance between performers and their roles to help bridge the distance between then and now…The tone is comic, but never cute or camp. And ultimately, you feel, the play respects its bold if fallible pioneers, in all their natural bravery and fearfulness.” — NY Times.

Written by Jaclyn Backhaus; directed by Gregory Justice.

Tickets are $15.00 for the general public, $12.00 for seniors and $10.00 for students.

To purchase tickets online, visit: https://tickets.artscenter.vt.edu/online/mapSelect.asp?BOparam::WSmap::loadMap::performance_ids=D1EE52BA-B62C-4707-8E6D-BEB16406D3D3.

Masks are recommended for all School of Performing Arts events.

For more information, visit: https://www.performingarts.vt.edu/performances/2022/04/sopa-menonboats.html or https://www.facebook.com/VTperformingarts or https://www.instagram.com/HokiesOnStage/.