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FSC theatre troupe presents
"The Roads to Home"

LAKELAND, Fla. (March 19, 2003) - Florida Southern's theater department presents "The Roads to Home," a trilogy of one-act plays by Horton Foote, in the Buckner Theater on campus. Performances begin at 7:30 p.m. April 3-5 and 10-12; matinees start at 2:30 p.m. April 6 and 13.

A critical and popular off-Broadway success, the three short plays blend humor and poignancy as they probe gently into the crises besetting a group of Texas friends and neighbors. In the first, "A Nightingale," two Houston neighbors are forbearing and patient about the uninvited visits of a girlhood acquaintance from their small hometown as she inexorably slips into insanity. The two friends are more concerned with silencing their friend's accounts of old scandals. In the second play, "The Dearest of Friends," one of the two friends is facing the crisis of a husband who is involved with another woman and who wants a divorce. Her friend is sympathetic, but cannot bring herself to face its implications in her own household. In the third and final play, "Spring Dance," years have passed and the girlhood acquaintance is now confined to a sanatorium. She and her fellow patients are scrupulously polite and obviously totally divorced from reality.

"The Roads to Home" is an all-student-directed production. Tickets are $15. FSC students are admitted free. Non-FSC students pay half price. For ticket information, please contact the Branscomb Auditorium box office at (863) 680-4296.

About Florida Southern College
Florida Southern is a four-year, private, co-educational liberal arts college affiliated with the United Methodist Church. The college offers more than 40 undergraduate majors and a master of business administration degree accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Located in Lakeland, Fla., the college is home to the largest, single-site collection of Frank Lloyd Wright architecture in the world.

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