University Theatre plumbs artistic price of success in season finale
It’s probably the dream of virtually every visual artist (and writer) to have work purchased — for a hefty sum — “Sight Unseen.”
In University Theatre’s ‘Sight Unseen,’ artist Jonathan Waxman, played by Josh McCabe, left) examines his portrait of Patricia (right, played by Sarah Phillips), while her husband Nick (Steve O’Connell) looks on.
Painter Jonathan Waxman finds himself in that happy situation, although, ominously, his muse is slipping away.
Donald Margulies’ Obie Award-winner “Sight Unseen” will wrap the University Theatre season, with performances Thursday-Saturday, April 20-22 and 27-29.
Directed by Norma Saldivar, an associate professor of theatre and drama and recipient of the 2006 Arts Institute Creative Arts Award, “Sight Unseen” follows Waxman’s exodus back to his first muse.
Will Waxman regain the way he has lost? Can he come to terms with his own insecurities — which fame have not abated in the least? And his ethnic heritage — what’s going on what that?
“Sight Unseen” offers no easy answers and draws no defintive conclusions. Much remains ambiguous. Audiences will dine out on the knotty issues raised in the play during many an evening.
Curtain is at 7:30 p.m. in Vilas Hall’s Mitchell Theatre. Tickets, available through the Vilas Hall Box Office, are $16 general and $12 for UW–Madison students. For more information, call 262-1500 or visit http://www.utmadison.com.