Paterno Fellows, Paterno Aspirants, and their guests are invited to a special evening out on Friday, February 25.  For just $5, you’ll get to see “The Beaux Strategem” at the Playhouse Theatre (the reviews have been raves!) with a pre-show dinner preview at 6:30 in 111 Arts Building.   

At 7:30 you’ll enjoy a wonderful performance of George Farquhar’s famous comedy The Beaux Strategem at the Playhouse Theatre (next to the Forum Building).  Directed by distinguished visiting artist Di Trevis, the play is a hilarious romantic comedy involving two dirty rotten scoundrels–two fashionable beaux–with a strategy for getting rich by separating naive young heiresses from their dowries.  Their plans go haywire, though, when true love intervenes, not to mention mistaken identities and robberies gone strangely awry. 

Before the play, at 6:30 (and over a free dinner provided right there for you), in 111 Arts Building, director Di Trevis and PSU Evan Pugh Professor Robert Hume will offer an informal orientation to the play.  This should be tremendous because the food will be good and because Trevis and Hume are experts on the English stage.  Trevis (according to wikipedia) has been directing plays in Britain and the US since 1981.  The first woman to run a company at Britain’s Royal National Theatre, she has directed a host of wonderful performances, particularly at the Royal Shakespeare Company. Hume is one of 22 Penn State Evan Pugh Professors (the highest honor a PSU professor can receive) because of his remarkable and sustained studies of English theatre.

And both Trevis and Hume have a pretty good sense of humor.

Fellows and aspirants can pick up tickets ($5 each) from Billie Moslak in 119 Sparks beginning Monday, February 21.  First come, first served.  Each Fellow or aspirant can also buy a ticket for one non-Paterno guest.  But all ticket holders must commit to attending both the pre-show dinner as well as the play itself.