[NEohioPAL]Red Hen's Cherchez Dave Robicheaux opens Friday!

[Red Hen Productions]

Red Hen Productions presents
CHERCHEZ DAVE ROBICHEAUX
by Nancy Wright and directed by Denise Astorino

Opening this Friday, March 1st!

Ever yearn for the warmth of southern climates and the smell of salt water 
and Spanish moss?  In the middle of a Cleveland winter, who could blame you? 
 Nola lives in a trailer park north of Elkhart.  She yearns too.  

Meet Nola Rhinderknecht, an agoraphobic Indiana housewife who may or may not 
abandon her champion-bowler husband Bob.  For five years Nola has rarely 
left their mobile home.  TV, the Book of the Month Club, and the Internet 
keep her connected, more or less.  Mostly, though, Nola seeks refuge in the 
novels of James Lee Burke, whose recovering-alcoholic Cajun detective Dave 
Robicheaux is her romantic hero.  She decides to find him in the flesh. 
 (Never mind that he's a literary character.)  On the road to New Iberia, 
Louisiana, Nola becomes the involuntary travel partner of another fugitive 
from reality.  Elizabeth Bye Harkness and her multiple personalities lead 
Nola into a Hoosier Wonderland where Fiction and Blind Faith confront Fear 
and Regret.  Guess who wins?  The outcome will amuse and move you.

Featuring Kat McIntosh as Nola, Cat Kenney as Picket Pie, Julie Angel Saad 
as Brittney, Spencer White as Bob and Paul Kaiser as Dee.

Playing Thurday, Friday, and Saturday evenings at 8:00 pm at Spaces Art 
Gallery on the west bank of the Flats, 2220 Superior Viaduct, March 1-23, 
2002.  

Tickets are $12 regular; $8 students/seniors
Preview night is Thursday, February 28th, $6 tickets

Moderated talk-backs every Thursday night following the show
Discussion with the playwright on Opening Night, Friday March 1st!

RESERVATIONS
216-661-4301
redhen at logan.com

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Red Hen Productions
PO Box 91926, Cleveland OH 44101 * (216)661-4301
http://www.logan.com/redhen/


>From nlilly at clevelandplayhouse.com" <nlilly at clevelandplayhouse.com  Wed Feb 27 11:57:03 2002
From: nlilly at clevelandplayhouse.com" <nlilly at clevelandplayhouse.com (Nathan Lilly)
Date: Wed Feb 27 11:57:03 2002
Subject: [NEohioPAL]The Cleveland Play House presents Kenneth Lonergan's The Waverly Gallery
Message-ID: <01C1BF8C.DA00D9A0.nlilly at clevelandplayhouse.com>

The Cleveland Play House proudly presents...

The Waverly Gallery
The Drury Theatre
Mar. 12, 2002 - Apr. 7, 2002

A drama by Kenneth Lonergan

Directed by Cleveland Play House Artistic Director, Peter Hackett

A heart-tugging and very funny drama about the twilight years of Gladys 
Green, a former liberal firebrand attorney, now making a gradual descent 
into another world.

As a new retiree, Gladys concentrates on running an anachronistic art 
gallery in a dilapidated Greewich Village hotel. Despite the help and 
tolerance of her family and a self-deluded artist friend, Gladys' situation 
can only worsen. Told with great humor and compassion, The Waverly Gallery 
is a thoughtful treatment of a subject that, in one way or another, touches 
us all.

Gladys will be played by Ann Guilbert, last seen in The Cleveland Play 
House World Premieres of Jerusalem and Touch the Names and best known for 
her TV roles as Laura's friend and neighbor, Millie, on "The Dick Van Dyke 
Show" and Fran Drescher's Grandama Yetta on "The Nany."  Plain Dealer 
Theatre Critic Tony Brown wrote Ms. Guilbert "...can rule the stage with a 
raised forefinger."

Playwright/screenwriter Kenneth Lonergan is one of America's hottest 
writers. He wrote the screenplay for Analyze This and was Oscar-nominated 
for his work on You Can Count On Me.

Groups tickets for 10 or more are now available at a special rates for this 
production.  To inquire about group tickets contact Kimberly D. Furganson, 
Audience Development & Group Sales Manager, at 216.795.7000 x 235 or 
Kfurganson at clevelandplayhouse.com.

Single tickets available by contacting CPH Ticket Office.