The Shadow Box

BFS theater, Basel, Kohlenberggasse 11
Performance dates: 19th, 20th, 21st, 26th, 27th, 28th April 2012



Evening: 20:00 pm
Matinee: 14:00 pm

Tickets: CHF 30
Student/AHV: CHF 20

Tickets available at TICKETINO:
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More info:
www.semi-circle.ch

This outstanding and award winning play is Semi Circle’s next venture in English speaking theater!

Winning both Tony and Pulitzer prize awards for best play in 1977, The Shadow Box was written by actor and playwright Michael Cristofer. It made its Broadway debut on March 31, 1977 winning a Drama Desk nomination for Best American New Play. Paul Newman also directed a TV movie version in 1980, which won the Golden Globe award and garnered 3 Emmy nominations.

According to drama critic Marie Rose Napierkowski “The play is still a hearty read for a contemporary audience. The work interweaves the lives of three dramatically different terminally ill patients and their loved ones to give a dynamic, well-rounded perspective of death and dying. The richness of the play is exemplified by its unity. The action takes place during the course of one day, on a hospital campus. The source for Cristofer’s inspiration was his personal experience with two close friends dying of cancer. Offering varying perspectives of characters, comprising three different plots, gives the work certain objectivity in its discussion of a sensitive subject.”

Semi-Circle hopes their spring production not only entertains audiences but also stimulates them to think about these delicate topics and personal issues. Director Jerome Salyers adds:”This play challenges us all to ask the question: Is Death the only way to show us how to live?” The families in The Shadow Box ask, and in some cases, answer that question for themselves with grace and honesty, beckoning us to do the same.

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