Neil Simon's 'Rumors" to be SIC performance

</element><element id="paragraph-1" type="body"><![CDATA[Imagine walking into a party hosted by the deputy mayor of New York and finding out he has shot himself in the earlobe - and his wife is missing.

That's exactly the situation in which partygoers find themselves in Rumors, a Neil Simon-penned play scheduled for three upcoming performances by the SIC Theater Department.

"It's got all the classical elements of a farce," director Alison Oshel said.

"It's very witty, sarcastic and humorous."

Oshel said that the play - originally written by Simon in 1988 - has been modernized a bit, but retains the premise: The guests, fueled by their fixation on their own reputations and upper-class status, come up with increasingly wild and ridiculous explanations and methods of hiding the facts from those who arrive after them.

The play's roster is filled with entirely student actors. Theater program students also were responsible for the set construction.