[NEohioPAL] GLTF Presents Free Touring Production of "Seeing Red"

[Todd Krispinsky]

For Immediate Release

January 25, 2008

 


Winter Heats Up With 


Great Lakes Theater Festival's 


FREE Touring Production of Seeing Red


The Festival's 2008 touring production 

will visit twenty-seven venues throughout northern Ohio.

 

Great Lakes Theater Festival (GLTF) will launch the world premiere of
Seeing Red, a free outreach touring production scheduled to visit
twenty-seven neighborhood venues throughout northern Ohio, to kick off
the company's Spring 2008 series of Surround programming.   The
production is written by GLTF Director of Education, Daniel Hahn, and
features a touring company of four actors.  GLTF's Associate Artistic
Director, Andrew May, directs the production.  The Seeing Red tour
begins February 19th, continues through March 19th and is designed to
support the Festival's upcoming main stage production of Arthur Miller's
The Crucible.  All non-school performances of Seeing Red are free and
open to the public. (Click here for a complete list of performance
venues, dates and times.)
<http://www.greatlakestheater.org/education/surround/default.shtm#dark> 

 

"A program like the outreach touring production affords communities the
unique opportunity to experience art where they live...right in their
own backyards...in their neighborhoods," remarked Daniel Hahn, Great
Lakes Theater Festival's Director of Education, when asked about the
Festival's annual tour.  "There are a lot of people that don't go or are
unable to go downtown for a variety of reasons... preventing them from
experiencing the plays on our main stage.  The outreach tour offers us
[GLTF] a unique opportunity to connect with these people and their
communities."

 

Seeing Red explores the question of what happens when government
oversteps the bounds of its power and infringes upon the rights of
citizens?  For over thirty years, the United States government called
upon American citizens to testify before the House Un-American
Activities Committee, where naming names of purported communists was as
commonplace as it was ruinous.  Seeing Red dramatizes the actual
testimony of four key witnesses, concluding with Arthur Miller himself,
whose play, The Crucible, serves as an allegory for these congressional
hearings.  Although The Crucible is set in Salem, Massachusetts of 1692,
it was the congressional witch hunts of the 1940s and 1950s that
inspired Miller to write his epic play.  Seeing Red provides a unique
historical context for the Festival's spring production of The Crucible,
and raises important questions which still have resonance today.

 

The four-actor touring ensemble features Cleveland actors David Hansen,
Joseph Primes, Justin Tatum and Elizabeth Wood.  The design trio of
Joshua Frachiseur (scenic design), Melanie Boeman (costume design) and
Richard Ingraham (sound design) complete the play's production team.  "I
couldn't be more proud of the talented production team that we have been
able to assemble for this project," said Hahn of his artistic
collaborators.  "I can't wait to share their work with the twenty-seven
partner venues that we'll have the privilege of visiting during our tour
of northern Ohio."  

 

Seeing Red is a seventy-minute program that includes an introduction and
post-performance discussion. Times and dates are subject to change.
Call individual venues for more information about the performances.
(Consult the enclosed tour calendar for a complete list of performance
venues, dates, times and contact information.) 

 

Seeing Red is part of a series of community programs surrounding Great
Lakes Theater Festival's upcoming Spring Repertory production of The
Crucible by Arthur Miller (March 28 - April 27, 2008, at the Ohio
Theatre, Playhouse Square).  Held throughout northern Ohio from February
through May, the 2008 Surround is designed for audiences of all
backgrounds and ages.  All Surround events are free and open to the
public at non-school venues.  For more information, visit the Great
Lakes Theater Festival website at
www.greatlakestheater.org/education/surround/ or call the Festival's
education department at (216) 241-5490 x307.

 

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Media Contact:

Todd Krispinsky

Marketing and Public Relations Director

(216) 241-5490 x 317

tkrispinsky at greatlakestheater.org

 
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