Property master Byron Rudrow of theatre and dance sands a Grecian pedestal for the campus production of Charles Mee's "Big Love." The show opened Thursday in the Main Theatre and runs through March 14. The award-winning play follows the plight of 50 women who reject their arranged marriages and flee to an Italian villa, with their would-be grooms in pursuit. It's a quirky, comic romp through gender politics that blends contemporary language and pop culture with ancient-Greece-inspired philosophical ponderings. Behind Rudrow students sculpt women out of plastic foam. The statues appear as columns that hold up a roof. Director Sheldon Deckelbaum says the statues aptly represent the position the play's female characters face of being "stuck between a rock and a hard place."