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Dominican University’s Performing Arts Center will present Exploring Beckett, four shorts plays by Nobel Prize-winner Samuel Beckett. The production will be presented on Saturday, November 3 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, November 4 at 3:00 p.m. in the Eloise Martin Recital Hall located on the Main Campus, 7900 West Division Street, River Forest.

Exploring Beckett is a showcase of four classic plays by the esteemed playwright known for his stark, minimalist and often wickedly funny explorations of the bleakness, irony and ultimate hope that characterize the human condition. Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969 in recognition of his groundbreaking work.

The plays gathered for this performance are among Beckett’s greatest works: Come and Go, That Time, Ohio Impromptu, and What Where.  The pieces, produced with minimal sets, lights and costumes, are part of the university’s Black Box Experiment, a new developmental program in which the plays are designed to showcase the craft of the actor. The pieces revolve around the actor as storyteller, chronicler, pretender, artist, entertainer and human being.

For more information or to order tickets, contact the Dominican University box office at (708) 488-5000 or purchase tickets online at www.dom.edu/pac. General admission tickets are $5.

Founded in 1901, Dominican University is a comprehensive, coeducational Catholic institution offering bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Dominican offers 50 undergraduate academic programs in the Rosary College of Arts and Sciences and 15 graduate programs through the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, the Brennan School of Business, the School of Education, the Graduate School of Social Work, and the Institute for Adult Learning. In the 2008 issue of America’s Best Colleges, U.S. News & World Report again ranked Dominican University in the top tier of Midwest master’s level universities and as a “best value” for the tenth consecutive year.