Six Anoka-Ramsey Community College Cambridge Campus student-actors and college play director Gail Kasl will bring to life A.R. Gurney’s play, “The Dining Room,” on stage at the Anoka-Ramsey Community College Cambridge Campus theatre, Feb. 27 and 28 and March 6 and 7 at 7:30 p.m., and March 1 at 2 p.m. An alumni reception will follow the Feb. 28 performance. The March 6 production will be interpreted.

“The Dining Room” is a series of inter-related scenes with 57 unique characters in typical well-to-do households over several time periods. Families gather daily for meals and dinner parties and also in times of emotional turmoil, creating an in-depth portrait of this vanishing upper-middle-class.

Actors change roles, personalities and ages to produce a rich theatrical experience embodying humor and humanity as traditions and formality are replaced by a generation who have rejected or lost sight of the family dinner at the dining room table.

“Anyone attending the play will recognize the slice of life within the diningroom wall,” says Anoka-Ramsey Theatre faculty and play director, Gail Kasl. “Audiences will also experience the amazing acting challenge the six performers faced as they developed nine, distinct characters each.”

Tickets for “The Dining Room” are $8 for the general public, $6 for senior citizens and available at the college’s bookstore during normal business hours. For more information, visit the Theatre Department Web site or call 763-433-1850.

Anoka-Ramsey Community College student Colette Bulera (center) portrays a mother being sang to by her three sons, student actors Joshua Scharber, Steve Taylor and Douglas Bujak, in the college’s production of “The Dining Room,” Feb. 27 and 28 and March 6 and 7 at 7:30 p.m., and March 1 at 2 p.m.

In this scene from “The Dining Room,” playing Feb. 27 and 28 and March 6 and 7 at 7:30 p.m., and March 1 at 2 p.m. at Anoka-Ramsey Community College Cambridge Campus theatre, student-actor Fancey Lorsung (right) as Grace tells student-actor Colette Bulera, playing her daughter Carolyn, that she must go to dance school.