Performance to benefit UCO library support group
EDMOND — The Friends of the Chambers Library will welcome One’s Company, featuring Pippa White, for their fall fundraiser at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 1 at the UCO Jazz Lab, 100 E Fifth St.
One’s Company will perform “Far as the Eye Can See,” a dramatization of the experiences of the people of the prairie — pioneers, American Indians, homesteaders and others who endured the Dust Bowl.
One’s Company is a collection of one-woman shows featuring White. She grew up in San Francisco, appeared regularly on TV as a child, trained at the American Conservatory Theatre Academy and for five years was seen as hostess of a daily morning show on San Francisco’s ABC affiliate. Moving to the Midwest compelled her to create her onewoman shows, drawing on many different sources for a collection of unusual and entertaining solo productions. White has a love of dialects and accents that she tries to incorporate into her shows. Some of her dialects come naturally, thanks to a British father.
“Other children came home to milk and cookies after school,” she said. “I came home to afternoon tea!”
Tickets are $40 each with discounts for groups of four or more and are available at library.uco.edu/events.
Proceeds will benefit Friends of the Chambers Library, which supports UCO’s Max Chambers Library through development and fundraising initiatives, including book donations and maintaining an extensive archives department.