March 13, 2009... The Clemente Players at Trident Technical College present The Werewolf’s Curse or Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow, an uproariously funny spoof of old horror films of the 1930s, April 3-5. Show times are 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 3 and Saturday, April 4 and 1:30 p.m. Sunday, April 5 in the Complex for Economic Development/College Center (Bldg. 920) on Trident Technical College’s Main Campus, 7000 Rivers Ave., North Charleston. A minimum donation of $15 is requested for tickets except for Sunday’s performance, which includes $8 student tickets. Donations of $100 will receive four premiere seats.

Proceeds from the play support the Charleston Clemente Course at Trident Technical College, a free college-level humanities course for impoverished, homeless and otherwise disadvantaged adults in the Charleston area.

TTC employees and students as well as Charleston Clemente Course participants and community members will be part of the production, which includes the mad Dr. Frank Einstein and Professor Wonder’s Carnival Troupe as well as a host of other zany characters. A carnival pre-show features fortune tellers, magicians, tightrope walkers and a human tiger. The Werewolf’s Curse was written by Billy St. John and is produced by permission of Samuel French.

Sharon Willis, an instructor in TTC’s Speech, Foreign Language and Theater department and director/producer of the play, says the show is a must-see. “I knew The Werewolf’s Curse was the play I wanted to do when I met the Doppelganger characters. One actor plays all the community people of Rumania including a constable, a cook, a maid, the village idiot, a peasant and an old grandmother. His/her performance alone will bring the house laughter to a roar,” she said. This is the fifth year for a Clemente Players production. Last year’s play raised $9,000. Willis hopes to raise $12,000 from ticket sales for the Charleston Clemente Course.

For more information, contact Willis at 843.574.6605 or sharon.willis@tridenttech.edu