Members of The Lascivious Winks, a radical theater group, will perform3 Ring Political Circustoday (Monday, Dec. 5) at 8:30 p.m. at 123 Pleasant Street. Doors will open at 8 p.m.

The performance will feature a scene from a recent play by Tony Kushner, a poem by Amiri Baraka and a staged reading of the children’s book The Librarian of Basra.

Lascivious Winks is composed of students from Professor Katy Ryans Radical Theater class in the WVU Department of English. As part of their final project for the course, students use creative performance to examine the problems of contemporary society as well as pressing political issues, such as the war in Iraq and its devastating aftermath.

Students will enact scenes from a number of creative texts to illuminate a variety of social and political issues.

InOnly We Who Guard the Mystery Shall Be Unhappy,writer Tony Kushner imagines an encounter between an angel, Laura Bush and dead Iraqi children, killed by U.S. bombs. The performance will also include a reading of an Amiri Baraka poem titledSomebody Blew up America,written in response to the tragedy of Sept. 11, and a staged reading of the childrens book The Librarian of Basra by Jeanette Winter, which deals with the cultural and personal ramifications of war.

The performance will run approximately one hour. Donations at the door will be accepted for the Appalachian Prison Book Project, a non-profit organization that provides books free of charge to incarcerated men and women in the Appalachian region. Cover charge for the performance is $3.