The Horror of the Little Family Farce Opens on U of M’s Mainstage October 1

For release: September 29, 2009
For press information, contact Alice Berry (901) 678-3184

The University of Memphis Department of Theatre & Dance 2009/10 season opens with a world-premier production of The Horror of the Little Family Farce. Performances are October 1-3 and 8-10 at 8 p.m. on the Mainstage, 3745 Central Avenue. Tickets are $10 and $15. For ticket information call the box office at (901) 678-2576
. Box office hours are Monday through Friday 12:30 to 4 p.m.


Written and directed by Stephen Hancock, associate professor of theatre at the U of M, The Horror of the Little Family Farce presents a zany family of characters.  For Tina and her younger brother Sam, an afternoon of play laced with a heavy dose of imagination produces absurd situations and creates both horrifying and farcical circumstances. “The play is about the unintentional and unexpected influences that each generation in a family has on its off-spring,” Hancock says.  “Elements of the play that seem the most absurd are in fact true ones.”

This production represents the Department of Theatre & Dance in the 2009/10 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival.
 Hancock directs frequently in the Memphis community, and premiered one of his other plays, The Writer’s Block, at the University of Memphis in 2004.