OAKDALE, NY- "Two young people - one mad, one sexually insatiable - are roaming this asylum. At all costs, we must prevent a collision!" So says Dr. Rance in Joe Orton's twisted, smart, breakneck farce, What the Butler Saw, directed by Stephen Wisker. A cross between Oscar Wilde, Monty Python and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, the play opens with a psychiatrist trying to seduce an aspiring secretary but turns into madcap Freudian bedlam filled with mistaken identities, sexual intrigue, cross-dressing, and possible murder.

This performance will take place at the Dowling College Performing Arts Center, Rudolph Campus in Oakdale on the following dates:

THURSDAYS: MAY 3 & 10 AT 8 PM
FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS: APRIL 27 & 28; MAY 4, 5, 11 & 12 AT 8 PM
SUNDAYS: APRIL 29; MAY 6 & 13 AT 2 PM

Suggested Donation is $12 per person and Dowling Faculty, Staff, Alumni can purchase tickets for $10 per person. Students and senior citizens may purchase tickets at a discounted rate of $6. For ticket reservations, call 631-244-5037or visit www.dowling.edu/loft or buy tickets at TheatreMania.com.

"What the Butler Saw" is directed by London-born Stephen Wisker, a specialist in British farce, Shakespeare & clowning, who previously directed two smash hits at the Loft; 12th Night and Dario Fo's Can't Pay! Won't Pay! According to Artistic Director of the Loft, Dr. Andrew Karp, "Orton's play is simply one of the smartest and most outrageous farces every written for the stage. Every line is a zinger and, by the end of the play, no sacred cows remain unmilked!" The Loft Theatre, a non-profit theatre company, has dedicated itself to presenting classic, thought-provoking, ensemble-based works that both entertain and educate, utilizing the intimacy of the Loft space to expand the relationship between audience, actors, and material. In every instance, the Loft has tried to produce entertaining plays of both academic and literary excellence.