WHEN:
8 p.m. shows
Thursday-Saturday, Feb 5-7 and Feb. 12-14
 
2:30 pm shows
Sundays Feb. 8 and 15
   
WHERE:
San Antonio College
1300 San Pedro Ave., 78212
McCreless Hall, Second Floor Theatre
(building located on W. Dewey at Belknap)
 
COST:
General Admission $10
Free to all SAC and ACCD Students, Staff and Faculty
(Not for children under age 13.)
 
CONTACT:
For information contact the Theatre Department Office in McAllister Fine Arts Center room 125 or call (210) 486-0484.
 
Play Information:
This wild epic celebrates the mad obsession and ambiguous triumph of Christopher Columbus. The charming Italian mariner moves through the nightmare of life - he loves, he struggles against authority and stupidity, and he confronts the wondrous and terrible fruits of his obsession.
He is brought to judgment before the inquisition for his sins of lechery and pride. Kings, queens, mermaids, dead sailors, lovers, princes, fools, and even madhouse inhabitants haunt and taunt the compromised hero.
 
This play, commissioned for the 500th anniversary of Columbus's first voyage, is rich in language, action, character and humor as it explores the consequences of exploration, discovery, madness, and creation.