[NEohioPAL]Roulette Press Release

[alanna at bnctheatre.com]

PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIEATE RELEASE
Date: 3-22-07

Contact: Alanna Romansky/ 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: alanna at bnctheatre.com
Website: www.bnctheatre.com

Akron, OH – The Bang and The Clatter Theatre Company presents the Ohio Premier of Roulette, by Paul Weitz. Performances run from April 13th to May 12th, Thursday – Saturday at 8pm, every Sunday at 3pm, and Sunday, April 22nd 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 will be held on April 30th and May 7th at 8pm. Tickets for those performances are $7.50 for those currently working in the theatre industry. 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. 

With the attentive direction of Sean McConaha, a black comedy about the exploration of the tragedy and hilarity of suburban family life unfolds on the BNC’s stage. “Within their addled heads, those myths of the cozy nuclear family are still stenciled, like fading, atavistic tattoos. A comedy of loneliness, in which each dysfunctional family member is dysfunctional in his or her own isolating way. You start to realize that they all have their ways of withdrawing from life. No one has it under control in ‘Roulette.’ But whether they admit it or not, these characters are all at least slightly in love with the romance of the family that pulls together.”

“Every now and then a cliché sheds its skin in American comedy to reveal something raw and unsettling.  Cultural anthropologists and savvy theatergoers should know that this molting process is occurring…a sharp-tongued, broken-hearted and seriously funny new play called Roulette...”
- The New York Times

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