[NEohioPAL]Bodwin Theatre Presents Honoré de Balzac’s Colonel Chabert, Award Winning Play

[Kevin Cronin]

List:   Bodwin Theatre Company presents a staged reading of Honoré de 
Balzac’s "Colonel Chabert," with three performances, offered free of charge, 
over one week-end only. Performances are:

Friday, January 7th at 8:00 P.M.
Saturday, January 8th at 2:00 P.M.
Sunday, January 9th at 2:00 P.M.

Performances will be held at Notre Dame College, Great Room, located on the 
3rd floor of the Administration Building, 4545 College Road near Green Road 
and Cedar Road.

Love, honor, error and life after wartime…Set in Paris in 1819, Colonel 
Chabert (1832) tells the story of a Napoleonic cavalry officer, presumed 
dead for ten years, who returns home to reclaim his wife and estate. His 
wife has since remarried and given birth to two children.  The aftermath of 
war can be more personally devastating, for the warriors and the civilians 
left at home, than the war itself.  Is all fair in love and war?  Who are 
the real casualties of war?

This adaptation of Honoré de Balzac’s stirring story of the casualties of 
war was the 1984 winner of the L. Arnold Weissburger award for 
playwrighting.

The reading is offered free to the public, with the support of Actor’s 
Equity, the professional stage actors’ union.

Join us for the staged reading.  The cast, which includes Bernie Caneperi*, 
Tony Walsh*, Sandra Manos*, Peter Manos* and Kevin Cronin, will be directed 
by Peter Manos.

Honoré de Balzac was arguably the greatest French writer before Hugo and 
after Voltaire.  Originally a poor student, but voracious reader, Balzac was 
a starving artist in Paris writing under a pseudonym, who earned his first 
literary success with Les Chouans (1829). Over the next 20 years, he wrote a 
huge collection of novels and short stories, La Comédie Humaine, depicting 
French society with more than 2,000 characters from all walks of life. Often 
moralizing, Balzac’s originality, precise observation and imagination 
created some of the world’s greatest literature.

For reservations and more information, contact:

Bodwin Theatre Company
216.556.4996
Bodwin_Theatre at hotmail.com
On the web: http://Bodwin_Theatre.tripod.com

Bodwin Theatre supports the Cleveland Theater Collective (CTC), a 
comprehensive source for information about professional theater in northeast 
Ohio.  On the web: www.clevelandtheater.com

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