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Professor Designs “The Real Thing”

Maggie Morgan, UC Davis professor of theatre and dance, has designed the costumes for Aurora Theatre’s production of Tom Stoppard’s Tony Award-winning play The Real Thing. Directed by acclaimed Bay area artist Timothy Near, the production runs Jan. 27 through Feb. 26 in Berkeley, California. 

When Henry, a cerebral playwright, is asked by his mistress to ghost-write a script, his life begins to imitate his art too closely. More comfortable with words than feelings, Henry must decide which of his emotions are the “real thing.”

Stoppard tackles questions of love and marriage with dazzling comedy and more than one play-within-a-play, sending his characters and the audience reeling between authenticity and artifice, intellect and passion, and love and infidelity.

“So packed with wit, ideas and feelings … Stoppard’s most moving play and the most bracing play anyone has written about love and marriage in years.” - The New York Times

For tickets and information about this production, visit Aurora Theatre.  

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