[NEohioPAL]BNC Opens Roulette This Friday

[alanna at bnctheatre.com]

Akron, OH – The Bang and The Clatter Theatre Company presents the Ohio Premier of Roulette, by Paul Weitz. Performances run from April 20th 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

www.bnctheatre.com
330-606-5317

~Alanna Romansky
alanna at bnctheatre.com