After a successful debut in October 2009, the Department of French and Italian troupe will perform a reprised reading of the musical comedy, La Colonie.
Written by UW-Madison Professional French Masters Program Executive Director Ritt Deitz, La Colonie is a play in French. The play débuted October 9, 2009 to a full UW-Madison French House audience made up of university and community members.
La Colonie may be the first all-French-language musical to be written and débuted in Madison—it is certainly the first one about Madison, even an imaginary one.
The play will held February 12, 2010 at the Hemsley Theatre at 8 pm. The performance is free and doors open at 7:30 pm.
Deitz (PhD'94, French) teaches a course on Quebec every spring in the Professional French Masters Program and has long been fascinated by the odd nature of that miniature French-language society.