28 • Thursday, October 10, 2019 • On the Edge of the Weekend
SIUE Theater and Dance to present ‘She Kills Monsters’
The Edge
EDWARDSVILLE — Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) Department of Theater and Dance opens its 2019-2020 main season with “She Kills Monsters,” by Qui Nguyen. “She Kills Monsters,” directed by Tress Kurzym, and performed by SIUE students, will take the stage at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct.
16, through Saturday, Oct. 19, and at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 20, in the Dunham Hall Theater on the SIUE campus in Edwardsville. Critics have said this show is “A comedic romp into the world of fantasy role-playing games.” “She Kills Monsters” tells the story of Agnes Evans as she leaves her childhood home in Ohio, following the death of her teenage sister, Tilly. When Agnes finds
Tilly’s “Dungeons & Dragons” notebook, however, she stumbles into a journey of discovery and action-packed adventure in the imaginary world that was Tilly’s refuge. In this high-octane, dramatic comedy, laden with homicidal fairies, nasty ogres and ’90s pop culture, acclaimed young playwright, Nguyen, offers a heart-pounding homage to the geek — and warrior — within us all. “I love to play. I love imagi-
nary play, board games, card games and sports,” director Kurzym noted. “I make a living teaching people how to play. So, it is no surprise that I would be drawn to a script that focuses on a game. “What is surprising, is that the game in the script is a game that I had never played, prior to preparing for this production — ‘Dungeons and Dragons,’” she said. “I’m not sure why I never played the game. I knew people who
played it growing up in the 1980s. My own son started playing after being introduced to it through the television phenomenon ‘Stranger Things.’ Like our protagonist, Agnes, I didn’t think it was a game for me. It felt too complicated, too many rules. Have you seen the ‘Player’s Handbook’?“ She said the script called like a siren song.
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