Actor Steve Kidd to Perform Sigh/Omelas
Friday, March 2, at 1 p.m.

WATERVILLE, Feb. 23 — Actor Steve Kidd will perform his one-person show “Sigh/Omelas” at Thomas College on Friday, March 2, at 1 p.m., in the Laurette Ayotte Auditorium.

According to Larry Stark of The Theater Mirror, an online review: “If you get the chance, experience this hour and a quarter of theatrical excellence. It is rare that a performance can so remind us of the dangers, the beauty, and the obligations involved in being human...The best solo performance of the year. Steve Kidd is his characters; floating unrestrained emotions with exactly realized detail and lending every phrase, each work, expressive weight, humor and honesty.”

According to a Colby College Web site, Kidd created “Sigh/Omelas” “in response to his ongoing work with children who are affected by or afflicted with HIV and AIDS. His original dramatic text is interwoven with Ursula K. LeGuin’s short story ‘The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas,’ a haunting and provocative story of the fictional utopian city of Omelas, where people live in happiness and joy...but at what cost?”

Kidd has performed Sigh/Omelas” at a variety of venues, including Bridgewater College. According to the college’s Web site, Mr. Kidd “has worked as an actor and director in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Boston and London. He earned a master’s in theater studies from Brown University, and he trained professionally with London’s Royal Shakespeare Company.” Mr. Kidd has also taught drama at Brown University and works at Providence’s Gamm Theater.

The performance is made possible by support from Thomas’ Student Senate, the Campus Arts and Performance Series and the Office of Academic Affairs.

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