Pigeon — Claudia Stevens’ new monologue play, with music and audience participation, about Dame Miriam Rothschild, the famed environmentalist and champion of animal rights. Set in 1984, the play depicts Rothschild with a group of visiting American students, sharing ideas with them as she prepares to give an important lecture, “Animals and Man,” at Oxford. This event is sponsored by the Consortium for Women in Research in collaboration with the School of Veterinary Medicine and the Department of Theatre and Dance. One performance only, 5 p.m. today (March 11), Lab A, Wright Hall. Admission is free and open to the public.For more informatyion, send an e-mail to consortforwomen@ucdavis.edu.

Come Hell and High Water — This new work, devised and directed by Granada Artist-in-Residence Dominque Serrand, continues at 8 o'clock tonight (March 11) and Saturday, March 12, and 2 p.m. Sunday, March 13, in Main Theatre. The Department of Theatre and Dance describes Come Hell and High Water as an epic play about America’s humanity, suffering and vulnerability, as revealed by the forces of nature. See home page feature story.

Early Music and Baroque ensembles — J.S. Bach's Cantata No. 4 (Christ lag in Todesbanden), BWV 4; Motet: Komm, Jesu, Komm, BWV 229; and Violin Concerto No. 2 in E Major, BWV 1042, with Wesley Wang, violin. Also: works by Gesualdo, Lotti, Purcell and Zelenka. 7 p.m. Saturday, March 12, at St. Martin’s Episcopal Church, 640 Hawthorne Lane, Davis. Suggested donations at the door: $12 adults, $6 students and children.