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FSC theater department 
presents "The Shadow Box"

LAKELAND, Fla. (Sept. 30, 2002) - Florida Southern's theatre department presents its opening performance, "The Shadow Box," in the Loca Lee Buckner Theater on campus. Performances begin at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 10-12 and 17-19; matinees start at 2:30 p.m. Oct. 13 and 20. 

Playwright Michael Cristofer's Pulitzer Prize-winning story takes place at a hospital where three terminal cancer patients dwell in separate cottages on the hospital's grounds. The play dramatizes their anxieties and their coming to grips with the finality of their conditions. This 1997 Tony Award-winner is directed by James F. Beck, theatre department chair. 

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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