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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-CA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO DRAMA DEPARTMENT PRESENTS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><b><i><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:26.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>on love</span></i></b><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:26.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>directed and dramaturged by Naila Keleta-Mae<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Run</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>: </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>February 6-9<sup>th</sup> at 8pm & Feb. 8<sup>th</sup> & 9<sup>th</sup> at 2pm</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Created by UW Drama’s own Dr. Naila Keleta-Mae in 2008, <b><i>on love</i></b> was further developed by UW Drama students during Dr. Keleta-Mae’s <i>Performance Creation</i> course in the fall. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>on love</span></b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> is a play about love and legacy; it is a Canadian story about the historic site in St. Armand, Quebec called Nigger Rock. </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>In the 19th Century, black people – slaves, free tradesmen, and travellers – lived in St. Armand and buried their dead at the base of an enormous dark-coloured bolder that was, and still is, called Nigger Rock. The bolder sits on private land. It is not officially recognized as a cemetery. <b><i><o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Faculty collaborators, <b>Bill Chesney </b>(set/props) and <b>Sharon E. Secord </b>(costumes), have worked with local designer <b>Kirsten Watt </b>(lighting) and Montreal designer </span><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Pohanna Pyne Feinberg </span></b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>(sound)</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> to transform our small black box theatre into a space where past and present collide.</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Featuring a diverse cast of uWaterloo students, <b><i>on love</i></b> is a moving piece about the complexities of race, gender, history, and heteronormativity told through a cast of eight who explore love’s capacity to be a “fine balance between hope and despair.” (Rohinton Mistry)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><u><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Location</span></u></b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Studio Theatre 180, Hagey Hall of Humanities<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><b><u><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Tickets</span></u></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>$17 General <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>$13 Students & Seniors<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow'>$10 RUSH tickets at the door</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>$5 eyeGo<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Box Office: 519.888.4908<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Visit </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="http://dramaandspeechcommunication.uwaterloo.ca/drama/productions.htm">http://dramaandspeechcommunication.uwaterloo.ca/drama/productions.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Check out our trailer at <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L80NvHRACLM&feature=youtu.be">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L80NvHRACLM&feature=youtu.be</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Read the preview in the KW Record at <a href="http://www.therecord.com/whatson/artsentertainment/article/880028---under-told-slavery-story-focus-of-uw-drama-students-performance">http://www.therecord.com/whatson/artsentertainment/article/880028---under-told-slavery-story-focus-of-uw-drama-students-performance</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>for upcoming productions<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Follow us on Twitter @UWDramaDept<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Like us on Facebook at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/UWDramaDept"><span style='color:#0020F6'>http://www.facebook.com/UWDramaDept</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> 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