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Performing Arts Center Presents Lillian Hellman’s “Toys in the Attic”

Dominican University Performing Arts Center will present Toys in the Attic, Lillian Hellman’s final original play, from Friday, April 11 through Sunday April 13 in Eloise Martin Recital Hall, 7900 W. Division Street, River Forest.

Written in 1959, Toys in the Attic is set in steamy, insular, pre-civil rights New Orleans. Two spinster sisters, on the cusp of middle age, have repeatedly sacrificed their dreams to rescue their ne’er-do-well brother Julian. When Julian returns home bearing gifts, money and a new bride, the family’s long-established balance of power is thrown into chaos. Desperation, schemes and betrayals follow, revealing the trap in a popular proverb: you’ll always have family.

In Toys in the Attic, Hellman tackled the complex issues of the corrosive side effects of the American Dream and the often destructive force of familial love. The play, written for the Broadway stage, won the New York Critics Circle Award in 1960. Hellman’s own life was rife with drama: a longtime political activist, she refused to name names in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1952 and was blacklisted for many years.

Friday and Saturday night performances begin at 7:30 p.m.; the Sunday performance is at 3:00 p.m. 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 $15.

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 School of Leadership and Continuing Studies. 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 “great school at a great price” for the tenth consecutive year.