International Theatre Program

"Terminal 3"

Two couples. Separated by 20 years. One waiting room. Bookended by life's milestones of birth and death, a man and a woman confront the ghosts of their past and the delicate reconciliation that a future might potentially hold. An extraordinarily intimate, subtle, and moving exploration of the ties that bind and those that rend asunder, Terminal 3 by Lars Norén (Sweden's preeminent contemporary dramatist) is both richly indebted to Beckett, Pinter, and, indeed, Albee, while charting an aesthetic course all of Norén’s own. Both an ode and a requiem, this delicate work about memory and loss moves the online theatrical explorations of the UR International Theatre Program forward and into new territory. Neither play nor movie, the production straddles the hybridity of this particular cultural moment in new and exciting ways.