UNIVERSITY THEATRE TO CONDUCT TOUR OF LONDON THEATER SCENE

The London Theatre '96, a 10-day study tour of the London theater scene, will be sponsored by the University Theatre at the end of December.

Participants will attend performances of Agatha Christie's "The Mousetrap," Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Sunset Boulevard," a Shakespearean play and a holiday pantomime.

The tour also will go backstage at the London Coliseum (home of the English National Opera) at St. Martins Lane. The itinerary includes the Henley Street house in Stratford where Shakespeare was born, along with the Tower of London, Buckingham Palace, Piccadilly Circus, Westminster and Windsor Castle.

The tour will be led by Dennis Seyer, an associate professor of speech communication and theater at Southeast. Seyer is the University Theatre's technical and lighting design director.

Seyer has led theater tours to New York for more than 10 years and was the resident director of the university's London exchange program at Roehampton Institute, Wimbledon, during the spring of 1992.

Those who wish to earn university credit can take a companion course in connection with the tour.

More information and a full itinerary will be presented at an informational meeting at 6 p.m. Monday in Room 316 of the Graul Building on the university campus.

Anyone who is unable to attend can contact Seyer at (314) 651-2490.