[NEohioPAL]Ohio Premier of Paula Vogel's "The Long Christmas Ride Home" - Opens this Weekend at BNC Theatre

[andthe at bnctheatre.com]

PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Date: November 24, 2006

Contact: Laurel Johnson / Sean Derry
From: The Bang and The Clatter Theatre Company
	Summit ArtSpace Facility
	140 E. Market St.
	Akron, OH 44308
Phone: 330.606.5317
E-mail: andthe at bnctheatre.com
Website: www.bnctheatre.com

Akron, OH – The Bang and The Clatter Theatre Company presents the Ohio Premier of The Long Christmas Ride Home, by Paula Vogel. Performances run from Nov. 24th - Dec. 23rd, Thu. – Sat. at 8pm, every Sun. at 3pm, and Sun. Dec 10th at 8pm, in the Summit ArtSpace Facility, 140 E. Market Street.

All Tickets are $15. All students and seniors “Pay as You Can” for each show. Two “Blackout Monday” performances, provided for all regional actors and theatre technicians, will be held on Dec 4th and 11th at 8pm. Tickets are $7.50 for “Blackout Monday” performances. For ticket reservations call the box office at 330.606.5317. “Dinner and a Show” packages are also available through Crave Restaurant. For more information call the box office or visit www.bnctheatre.com. 

The Bang and The Clatter Theatre Company welcomes the holiday season with Pulitzer Prize Winning Playwright Paula Vogel’s The Long Christmas Ride Home. On an ill-fated drive to Christmas dinner at grandparents’ house, a Man (Ron Cuirie) and Woman (Teresa McDonough) trigger an event that will forever change the fates of their three children, Rebecca (Heather Irwin), Stephen (Ryan McMullen), and Claire (Sara Cutlip). Even the sermon from a Unitarian Minister (Tom C. Barnes) cannot fix the unrest in this family. In this compelling drama, the lines between past, present, and future are blurred as we learn that all families are not cookie-cutter perfect. 

Directed by Sean McConaha, The Long Christmas Ride Home wraps up the inaugural season at BNC into a holiday treat only the Seans could provide.

“HAUNTING AND STUNNING!”
“Full of adventurous theatricality. The Long Christmas Ride Home strikes just the right chord.”
-	Michael Kuchwara, Associated Press 

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