[NEohioPAL] Corey Mach, Brian Marshall and Rob Gibb in Lilies

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LILIES

or the revival of a romantic drama

A Staged Reading to benefit Mercury Summer Stock



by Michel Marc Bouchard

directed by Pierre-Jacques Brault



																								Sunday, May 31, 2009 at 7:30  
PM                                                  		   		Tickets:  
$10.00
	
																									Brooks Theatre, Cleveland Play House, 8500  
Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH, 44106

Featuring Mark Cipra, Zach DeNardi, Rob Gibb, Robert Hawkes, Corey  
Mach, Brian Marshall, Joseph Monaghan, Devon Settles Jr. and Nicholas  
Varricchio.

For Tickets: 216-771-5862 or mercuryss at mac.com. Seating is Limited.

The love story no one ever told you.


In Michel Marc Bouchard's masterpiece Lilies, Father Saint-Michel  
states "...theatre should reach everyone. One can do anything in  
theatre, you know. One can reinvent life. One can be in love,  
jealous, insane, tyrannical or possessed. One can even lie and cheat.  
One can kill without feeling the slightest bit of remorse. One can  
die of love, of hate, of passion...one can conquer the unconquerable."

Lyrical, erotic, and redemptive, Michel Marc Bouchard’s Lilies  
unfolds as a play-within-a-play that centers on an impassioned love  
between two young men at a Catholic boys’ school in rural Canada in  
1912. As the story opens, Bishop Jean Bilodeau is summoned to a  
Québécois prison to hear the confession of Simon Doucet, a boyhood  
friend jailed for a murder he did not commit 40 years earlier. But  
instead of the confession he expects to hear, Bilodeau is forced to  
watch a play re-enacted by Doucet’s prisonmates detailing the  
horrendous and shocking events that transpired in their teenage  
years. A tense drama of tangled emotions and unfulfilled longing,  
Lilies was adapted into a film by John Greyson that became an  
audience favorite at the 1996 San Francisco Gay & Lesbian Film  
Festival and won the Canadian Genie (equivalent to the American  
Academy Award) for best picture of 1996.

This production marks the play’s Ohio premiere.

All proceeds benefit Mercury Summer Stock's ongoing mission to bring  
new and rarely performed works of theatre to the Greater Cleveland  
Community. All donations tax-deductible.


AT A GLANCE:

What: Mercury Summer Stock presents Lilies or The Revival Of A  
Romantic Drama

When: Sunday May 31, 2009 at 7:30 PM

Where: Brooks Theatre, Cleveland Play House, 8500 Euclid Ave,  
Cleveland, OH, 44016 
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