[NEohioPAL] $10 Preview Night on Thursday for Holy Ghosts in the Studio Theater at Beck Center

[Fran Storch]

Beck Center for the Arts
presents
Holy Ghosts
~ $10 Preview Night ~
Thursday, September 27
8:00 pm in the Studio Theater
Directed by Matthew Wright
Featuring Nicholas Koesters* and A. Neil Thackaberry*
 
Preview night admission is $10 at the door.  No advance purchases.  General admission seating.  Doors open approximately 15 minutes prior to curtain.
 
Beck Center for the Arts presents Holy Ghosts, a dark comedy written by award-winning playwright, Romulus Linney, Sept. 28 - Oct. 21 in the Studio Theater.  Directed by Matthew Wright, Holy Ghosts tells the story of a runaway wife, an abusive husband and a Southern Pentecostal sect whose members speak in tongues and practice snake handling as the ultimate test of their faith.
 
A young woman runs away to escape her mistake-of-a-marriage to a broken and thoughtless man.  She seeks refuge amongst the members of a fundamentalist religious group in the rural South.  The play questions the true meaning of faith as the husband, looking to retrieve his runaway wife by force, is - much to his own amazement - converted to a true believer.
 
Holy Ghosts is sponsored by Cox Communications, FreeTimes and WCPN 90.3 ideastream.  Show times are 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 3 p.m. Sundays.  Admission is $28 for adults, $25 for seniors, and $17 for students (22 and under).  Special group rates are available for groups of 13 or more.  Rush tickets for students (22 and under with I.D.) are offered for $10 each on Sundays only, 30 minutes prior to curtain, based on availability.  To reserve tickets call the Beck Center box office at 216-521-2540 or online at www.beckcenter.org <http://www.beckcenter.org/> .  Convenient on-site parking is free.  Beck Center is located just ten minutes west of downtown Cleveland at 17801 Detroit Avenue in Lakewood.
 
Beck Center for the Arts is a nonprofit 501(C)3 organization whose mission is to offer the highest quality arts experience, performance, and education to all people and communities of the region.
 
Thank you for supporting the arts in our community!  
 
 
A Note from the Director ~ Matthew Wright
 
" And these signs shall follow them that believe: in my name shall they cast out devils. They shall speak with new tongues. They shall take up serpents. And if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them. They shall lay hands upon the sick, and they shall recover."
The Book of Mark, Chapter 16, verses 17 and 18
 
Faith, according to Webster's, is a "firm belief in something for which there is no proof." Most of us, in moments of total candor, would admit that we wish desperately to believe that ours is a benevolent and forgiving universe...that we have faith that life's mysteries will be revealed and that our struggles are not in vain. Such faith may sustain us and give us courage to face our own darkness, whatever it may be. Without such faith we are bereft of meaning in a chaotic world and have naught for company but anxiety, depression and the constant hollow knowledge of our own mortality. With faith, with belief, comes the courage to carry on.
 
Romulus Linney has written a play about faith, about the universal human need to believe. And like all things human, this play is terribly funny and terribly sad and full of fear and hope. The people who populate the world of this play are not like those with whom we come in contact every day; these are a people who test their faith in ways unimaginable to most of us. And yet the motivations that drive their belief - their faith - are absolutely universal. In getting to know these folks, the cast and I have laughed with them, cried with them and stood in awe of them. We invite you to do the same. Welcome to the world of the Holy Ghosts.
 
 
Cast of Characters
Nancy Shedman......................................................................Laurel Johnson
Coleman Shedman..............................................................Nicholas Koesters*
Rogers Canfield.....................................................................Michael Regnier
Oby Jr........................................................................................Curtis Young
Virgil Tides...............................................................................Kyle Downing
Orin Hart....................................................................................Darryl Lewis
Howard Rudd...........................................................................Robert McCoy
Lorena Cosburg.........................................................................Lisa Siciliano
Mrs. Wall..................................................................................Rhoda Rosen
Muriel Boggs..................................................................Joanna May Hunkins
Billy Boggs.................................................................................Josh Theilan
Obediah Buckhorn, Sr....................................................A. Neil Thackaberry*
Carl Specter............................................................................David Bugher
Bonnie Bridge........................................................................Maryann Elder
Cancer Man...................................................................................Dan Bush
 
Production Staff
Artistic Director.......................................................................Scott Spence
Director...............................................................................Matthew Wright*
Stage Manager.........................................................................Emily Tinawi
Scenic Designer......................................................................Richard Gould
Costume Designer...................................................................Aimee Kluiber
Lighting Designer..........................................................Jeremy K. Benjamin
Sound Designer............................................................Richard B. Ingraham
Movement Coach.............................................. .................Martín Céspedes**
Vocal Coach...........................................................................Douglas Collier
Technical Director................................................................Joseph Carmola
Technical Assistants................................................Clint Felker, Chris Young
Light/Sound Board Operator......................................................Emily Tinawi
Properties Manager...........................................................Deanna R. Caudill
Props.........................................................................................Kate George
 
*Member of the Actors Equity Association (AEA), the union of actors and stage managers
** Member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers
 
 
Posted by:
Fran Storch
Marketing Assistant
Beck Center for the Arts
17801 Detroit Avenue
Lakewood, OH  44107
(216) 521-2540, x244
 
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