 EVOLUTION:
Patricia Buckley
October 8 at 8 p.m.
in the Baker Theatre
The event is FREE:
Tickets are not required.
Evolution is a story of two distant sisters who come together again after a tragic accident. The two then embark on an eye-opening journey where family ties, precious memories and the force of change collide. All three roles are played by its creator, Patricia Buckley.
Evolution dreams up an unlikely connection between mental illness, human progress and the evolution of whales This tragicomedy, written and performed by Patricia Buckley and directed by Leslie Noble, tells the story of two estranged sisters and their mother wrestling with the challenges and perks of a mysterious illness. Just as sea mammals evolved into terrestrial creatures then returned to the sea, Pammy and Minnie grew up in middle America becoming normal adults until one took a dark turn backward. When a ridiculous accident occurs, Pammie, a successful Paleontologist specializing in whale evolution, leaves her work to try to solve the mystery of her sister’s regression. The journey brings her home, where a collision takes place between scientific knowledge, memory and family experience. In plumbing her family’s evolution she will discover if she has the courage to allow a seismic change to happen.
Evolution has received two fellowships from the Women’s Interart Development Series and workshop productions at Six Figures Theatre Company, The Franklin Stage Company, and LeMoyne College Theatre Department. The piece was chosen for a 2006-2007 workshop and teaching series at Gettysburg College.
 Patricia Buckley is a theater performer, director, writer, and educator. She is a founding member of the award-winning performance trio Gams On The Lam whose original blend of theater, dance, clowning and satire has been performed in the US, Europe, Canada and Latin America since 1993. The group has received funding from NYFA, NYSCA, Arts International and The Franklin Furnace. Regionally, Ms. Buckley has collaborated as a performer and writer with the Minneapolis company Theatre de la Jeune Lune. Performing credits with TJL include Olivia in Twelfth Night and Constance in The Three Musketeers (Minneapolis season and Spoleto Festival) and Yang Zen Frogs in Moon Over a Hong Kong Sweatshop (LaJolla Playhouse). New York credits include Flesh and Blood (New York Theatre Workshop), Sweet Nothings For My Neurosurgeon (NYTW Larson Lab), Moliere’s Shorts (Actors Shakespeare Company), Peter Ackerman’s The Urn (The Irish Arts Center), Politics as Usual (Westbeth) and sketch comedy with Mr. JumpyPants (PSNBC) .
She has been a guest instructor in physical theater and clowning at Brandeis University, Hamilton, Union and LeMoyne Colleges. She has been a National Performance Network Artist-in-Residence at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center and a Teaching Artist with the New York State Aesthetic Education Institute.
Ms. Buckley has recently completed her first solo piece, Evolution, with support from the Women’s Interart Development Series in New York City and Six Figures Theatre Company. Evolution has been seen as part of guest artist series at LeMoyne and Gettysburg Colleges.
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