[NEohioPAL] Little Box at CPT opens October 23!
Mindy Herman
MHerman at cptonline.org
Fri Oct 17 10:42:43 PDT 2008
Cleveland Public Theatre presents:
Little Box
Staged readings of new work by six local writers
October 23 - November 1
James Levin Theatre
As part of CPT's commitment to local playwrights and producers, CPT
presents Little Box, a series of staged readings. Little Box is modeled
after CPT's successful Big [BOX] Series but on a smaller scale, designed
to foster works at an earlier stage of development. Six plays will be
presented as staged readings over two weekends.
Premiere Performances
Tickets only $10 General Admission, $7 Students and Seniors
All shows begin at 7:30pm!
Visit www.cptonline.org <http://www.cptonline.org/> or call
216.631.2727 x 501 to purchase tickets now!
Bridge by Andrew Kramer
Thursday, October 23rd
Two strangers meet late one night on a city bridge. The men soon
discover that they have come to the bridge with the same goal: to commit
suicide. Not wanting to jump the same night as the other, a violent
debate of race, politics, class and addiction emerges as the two men
fight to be the one to carry through with their plan of death. Directed
by Josh Brown
Bon Voyage, Nate by Steve Maistros
Friday, October 24th
Nate is dead and Darla is in charge of helping his co-workers deal with
it. Scenes from their grief counseling session mix with monologues from
Nate's funeral to show just how deeply (or not so deeply) his passing
has affected the group. Darla struggles to keep the group on task. The
group struggles to figure out why they're there. In the end the truth
comes out, progress is made (if that's what you want to call it), real
tears are shed (sort of) and Nate is just as dead as he was in the
beginning. Whether any actual grief gets counseled remains to be seen.
Directed by Margi Herwald Zitelli
Bisbee, America by Tara Broeckel Ooten
Saturday, October 25th
Bisbee, America examines the lives of the Nations family, before, during
and after the 1917 Bisbee Deportation, a real event that forced over
1,000 striking copper miners to be deported from their home in Bisbee,
Arizona. This play looks at the role of women and children in the
male-driven world of the copper mining industry in early 20th century
America while examining how corrupt business can encourage a town to
become so fearful of a community that they turn on each other. The
events of this play ultimately force the question: What does it really
mean to be a patriot? Directed by Rose Leininger
The Conjure-Man Dies: A Play in Five Acts by Adrienne Gossellin
Thursday, October 30th
The Conjure-Man Dies is the story of the murder of N G'ana Frimbo,
scientist, Harvard graduate and African king, who resurrects himself to
find his murderer, only to be killed in the process. The crime is
investigated by John Archer, a pedantic doctor, and Perry Dart, the
first black detective in Harlem, with help from Jinx Jenkins and Bubber
Brown, two ex-sanitation workers turned "private eyes." The Conjure-Man
Dies is an adaptation of the first African American Detective novel
written by Rudolph Fisher in 1932.
540 AM by Jeffrey Grover
and
It's Okay to Cry: A Personal History of Cleveland Baseball by Mike
Geither
Saturday, November 1st
540 AM by Jeffrey Grover
A 50 something man finds himself an orphan, having recently lost his
Mom. Add to that a divorce and the quest to find the answer to the
question: How can I die content? Lessons learned from the way his mom
died and the ways that she lived add to his introspective and often
humorous journey. 540 AM is a time of day for everyone.
It's Okay to Cry: A Personal History of Cleveland Baseball by Mike
Geither
It's Okay to Cry is a Cleveland sports fan's attempt to negotiate
bitterness, death and middle age. By exploring the Ray Chapman/Carl Mays
story, the economics of professional baseball and personal tragedy, this
quirky fan makes peace with the complexity of loving losers of all
kinds.
Both productions will be directed by Jacqi Loewy
Visit www.cptonline.org <http://www.cptonline.org/> for more
information and to purchase tickets!
Mindy Herman
Communications Director
Cleveland Public Theatre
6415 Detroit Ave.
Cleveland, OH 44102
[p] 216.631.2727 x 203
[f] 216.631.2575
mherman at cptonline.org
www.cptonline.org
www.myspace.com/cptonline
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.neohiopal.org/pipermail/neohiopal-neohiopal.org/attachments/20081017/bce73677/attachment-0003.htm>
More information about the NEohioPAL
mailing list