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COLUMBINUS (UW-Waukesha Lunt-Fontanne Theatre)

April 1 & 2 (7:30 p.m.), April 1 & 3 (2 p.m.)

Written by Stephen Karam, Sean McNall, and PJ Paparelli.
Directed by Steve Decker.
Produced by special arrangement with THE DRAMATIC PUBLISHING COMPANY of Woodstock, Ill.

$10 Adults, $8 Seniors/Students, Free for UW-Waukesha Students.

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A play sparked by the April 1999 massacre at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., is a meeting of fact and fiction that illuminates the realities of adolescent culture by exploring the events surrounding the shootings. The play weaves together excerpts from discussions with parents, survivors and community leaders in Littleton as well as police evidence to bring to light the dark recesses of American adolescence. Following the off-Broadway opening at New York Theatre Workshop one year later, Variety proclaimed: "This one comes straight from the gut—a wrenching return to the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School in which 12 students and a teacher were killed when two senior classmates went on a shooting rampage. The United States Theatre Project's smart and sensitive treatment of the event, which traumatized a suburban Colorado community and shocked the entire country, stirs up thought and feeling in this clean ensemble production, drawn from interviews, public records and the private diaries of the shooters.

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