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'Scotland Road' this weekend at DePauw revolves around Titanic tragedy
The award-winning play “Scotland Road” will be staged Thursday-Saturday, Nov. 10-12 and Sunday, Nov. 13 at DePauw University.
The play will be staged at 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday in Moore Theatre of the Green Center for the Performing Arts
Tickets are $10 for general admission. Students are admitted free.
The plot line finds a current-day young woman, dressed in clothes of the early 20th century alone on an iceberg. She is terrified and confused and utters only one word: “Titanic.” Brought to a makeshift hospital and interrogated by a man determined to break her story, she’s forced her to admit that she’s a publicity-seeking fraud. But as the interrogation intensifies, so does the mystery, and characters reveal devastating secrets. Everyone’s identity is suspect; no one is as they seem.
“Scotland Road” has been described as a “gripping and relentless” and a “Gothic psychological thriller.”
This year marks the 110th anniversary of the Titanic tragedy. Over the past century, the story of this “ship of dreams,” in which more than 1,500 people (out of 2,200) lost their lives, has enthralled the public, prompting hundreds of news stories, films, poems, songs, musicals, symphonies, dance performances, board games, video games and two Titanic museums in the United States. The disaster also brought issues of sexism, racism and classism to light.
Robert Ballard’s discovery of the Titanic in 1985 and the premiere of James Cameron’s film “Titanic” in 1997 revived public fascination with the doomed ocean liner.
Jeffrey Hatcher’s award-winning mystery “Scotland Road”-- named for a section of the ship that runs from bow to stern -- explores the Titanic legend and the shifting realities of those obsessed by it.
However, as Titanic survivor Miss Kittle warns, “there was more to the Titanic than the myth would have you believe. What you see, Mr. Astor, is just the tip.”
DePauw Theatre’s next mainstage production is” Iphigenia Crash Land Falls on the Neon Shell That Was Once Her Heart” by Caridad Svitch, directed by Felicia Santiago, running March 16-19.