'Three on the Seesaw' opens theater season at Covenant

A businessman expects to meet a lady friend at an out-of-the-way-hotel. A professor arrives at a publishing house to pick up galley proofs. A military sergeant enters a business to purchase war equipment.

And yet their disparate intentions bring them to the same place, which they discover is the correct address for all three.

Eventually, they come to suspect that they have arrived in a waiting room for the life beyond and that they are already dead and awaiting final judgment.

How they react to this knowledge forms the basis of "Three on the Seesaw," a farcical comedy about life, death and mystery from contemporary Italian author Luigi Lunari, the current production of the Department of Theatre and Film Studies at Covenant College.

Considered Lunari's best-known work, the play has been translated into 23 languages.

Covenant's show is directed by visiting professor Deborah Kirby and features the talents of Peter Upton, Katie Jenkins, David Reid, Lindsey Hawkins and Jordan Linkston.

It will be presented in three more performances this weekend and next.

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