McDaniel College Freshman Joshua Harding of Federalsburg, Md. Performs in "The Sleep of Reason," Examining one of the world's greatest painters, Francisco Goya

2013 Feb 12

McDaniel College Freshman Joshua Harding of Federalsburg, Md. performs as Calomarde in "The Sleep of Reason," a highly imaginative fantasy examining the turbulent final years of one of the world's greatest painters, Francisco Goya. Performances are Wednesday, March 6 – Saturday, March 9, 7:30 p.m., in WMC Alumni Hall at McDaniel College, 2 College Hill, Westminster, Md.

Tickets are $7 for adults and $5 for seniors, students, and those with a McDaniel College ID. For ticket information, call 410-857-2448.

"The Sleep of Reason" written by Antonio Buero-Vallejo, who is considered the most important Spanish dramatist of the second half of the 20th century, and translated from Spanish by Marion Peter Holt. Set in Spain in 1823, the play focuses on King Ferdinand of Spain's obsession to punish those he deemed his enemies, including one enemy in particular, Goya.

Visit www.mcdaniel.edu for more information about the college and the theatre arts department.

McDaniel College, recognized nationally among 40 "Colleges That Change Lives" and U.S. News top-tier liberal arts colleges, is a four-year private college of the liberal arts and sciences offering more than 70 undergraduate programs of study, including dual and student-designed majors, plus 25 highly regarded graduate programs. Its hallmark faculty-student collaborations in research,teaching and mentoring plus hundreds of leadership and service opportunities enrich a lively learning experience that is rooted in a personalized interdisciplinary and global curriculum. Innovative January courses take students to points all over the world while McDaniel's degree-granting European campus offers a unique opportunity for international study at the only American university in Budapest, Hungary. A diverse and close-knit community of 1,600 undergraduates and 1,560 part-time graduate students, McDaniel also boasts a spectacular 160-acre hilltop campus in Westminster, Md., an hour or less from Baltimore, D.C., the Chesapeake Bay, an Amtrak station and BWI international airport.