Oscar winner and Emmy nominee Olympia Dukakis is scheduled to perform her one-woman show “Rose,” at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the R. Don Cowan Fine and Performing Arts Center. Tickets are free for students.
“We are honored to welcome Olympia Dukakis to UT Tyler,” said Susan Tomae-Morphew, Cowan Center director. “She is widely acclaimed in the entertainment industry for her mastery in acting and award-winning career. Her performance in this production is one of her best as she brings to life this story of survival and hope.”
“Rose” tells the story – in a play-length monologue – of an 80-year-old Jewish holocaust survivor.
“’Rose’ is a gripping and inspiring story. At 80, she shares her incredible life journey that winds through war-torn Warsaw to modern-day Miami Beach,” according to a press release from the University.
“It’s political, deeply personal, very comic, very serious, very moving,” Dukakis said in a 2007 Boston Globe article. “It’s a tremendous landscape, a big arc.”
The play premiered in London in 2000 by playwright Martin Sherman, who had Dukakis in mind, according to the University press release.
Cowan Center officials said the play is not intended for children.
Dukakis, known for her role as Clairee Belcher in 1988’s “Steel Magnolias,” and her Oscar-winning role in 1987’s “Moonstruck,” is the daughter of Greek immigrants and a Massachusetts native who earned two degrees from Boston University, according to a Yahoo! Movies biography.
“She made her off-Broadway debut in 1960 and within two years was on Broadway in ‘The Aspern Papersm,’” according the biography. “Dukakis went on to appear in classics and contemporary plays, mostly in East Coast productions. From 1967-70 and again from 1974-83, she taught acting at New York University.”
She also has spent time on the small screen in television roles.
She appeared in an episode of “Frasier,” and did voice acting for “The Simpsons.”
“‘Steel Magnolias’ is a great story about strong women, and ‘Rose’ is an equally gripping story about one strong woman,” Thomae-Morphew said.
Tickets are $61, $51, $41, $36 and $21 and are available at the Cowan Center box office, online at www.cowancenter.org or by calling 903.566.7424.
Box office hours are 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.
By Allen Arrick Editor in Chief
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