[NEohioPAL] Coach House Theatre presents "Drowning Sorrows"

[Bob Schaefer]

    *Coach House Theatre*


      Presents


  Drowning Sorrows


      by


    Douglas Post

Coach House Theatre continues its 80th anniversary season with the 
affecting and thought-provoking /Drowning Sorrows/ by 
critically-acclaimed playwright Douglas Post. The show opens Thursday, 
Jan. 17 and runs through Saturday, Feb. 2, 2008.

The show stars Emily Demiray, Jonathan Fletcher, Bob Kenderes, Bettina 
Steinmetz and Richard Worswick.

Duncan Crawford (played by Richard Worswick), a bartender on the island 
of St. John, is considering abandoning his bar for greater adventure 
when an heiress from Manhattan, Emily Miles (played by Emily Demiray), 
wanders into his establishment. She begins to tell him the story of her 
life: how she was left at the altar at the tender age of 19 by a fiancé 
who mysteriously disappeared, how she has spent the past 20 years 
searching for this man, and how she now believes that she has found him 
in Duncan. Duncan denies this, but Emily is certain.

The Chicago Reader calls /Drowning Sorrows/ a kind of "dramatic 
Rorschach test" where the Emmy-nominated playwright creates a 
"psychological puzzler" and "forces audiences to fill in some 
tantalizing blanks."

/Drowning Sorrows/ marks the directorial debut of Ron Cuirle, a familiar 
face to Coach House audiences from his performances in/ Custer, Hay 
Fever, Don't Drink the Water /and /Picasso at the Lapin Agile/. Mr. 
Cuirle has performed and starred in numerous plays throughout 
Northeastern Ohio since 1993.

/Drowning Sorrows/ will be presented Jan. 17-Feb. 2, 2008. Curtain times 
are Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., with Sunday matinées at 
2:30 p.m. The house opens a half hour before the show, and the box 
office opens one hour before the show. Coach House Theatre is located at 
732 W. Exchange Street, in Akron, next to the Akron Woman's City Club. 
Tickets for /Drowning Sorrows/ go on sale Jan. 3. Prices are $15 for 
adults, and $6 for students (with valid ID) and children. Reservations 
are recommended by calling our box office at 330-434-7741 or visit 
www.coachhousetheatre.org <http://www.coachhousetheatre.org/> online for 
more information.


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