English Department Calendar

Performs at the Phoenix Theatre (across from Tidball’s). Showtimes: Thursdays at 7 pm, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm, and Sundays at 3 pm. adults: online $16.52, at the door $17. Students/Seniors: online $11.34, at the door $12.

By J.P.Miller. Directed by Jeff Beard. February 6-15. In the fast-moving milieu of Madison Avenue, social drinking is almost an occupational necessity, and one that fast-rising young Joe Clay adopts with too ready ease. Unfortunately the girl he meets and marries shares his proclivity, and while they continue to tell themselves that they drink because they choose to, it is soon apparent that their habit has become a serious problem. But their failure to acknowledge this plunges them headlong into the shattering events of the play—a career in shambles, a marriage destroyed, the esteem of friends and family lost, and a child who has become the innocent victim of their obsession. In the poignant ending of the play a spectre of hope arises but, more important, so does a galvanizing awareness of the depth of their torment, and of the lesson that their compulsive self-destruction must have for others