To Love Or Not To Love

First Production: August 24, 2001

Playwright: Kelsy Schoenhaar
Director: Kelsy Schoenhaar and Mark Hisler
Year: 2001
Produced: Dane County Sensitive Crimes Commission - Coordinated Community Response on Crime and People with Developmental Disabilities and Encore Studio for the Performing Arts.

The Capital Times called Encore “a vigorous addition to Madison’s theater scene.” This seven-scene play with music is approximately one hour and twenty minutes in length. One night only in April! Edgewood College, Rape Crisis Center and Wisconsin Coalition Against Sexual Assault are sponsoring the production of “To Love Or Not To Love” as one of the many events of Sexual Assault Awareness Month. With a bold directness To Love or Not to Love explores issues of sexuality, power, abuse, desire, and relationships. In the seven vignettes, the cast comprised of actors both with and without disabilities will provoke all the human emotion that one can bear. This play with music is approximately one hour and twenty minutes in length. Original songs include “All She Thinks About Is Sex”, “Music Is Better Than Sex” and “Out There, There’s A Man Just For Me”.

Produced by Encore Studio for the Performing Arts at the Bartell Theatre 113 East Mifflin

“A miracle of expression… a tour-de-force”
“Watching an Encore show… is like stepping into an alternate universe…”
- Amanda Henry, Wisconsin State Journal

“Their candid insights are bluntly startling, deeply profound and curiously humorous all at once”
”... a testimony to spirit and determination.”
- Deborah Hirsch, The Capital Times

Engagements

August 24-25, 2001
April 19, 2002
August 15-24, 2002
April 24-26, 2003

Note: Historical detail provided by MadStage.