[NEohioPAL] LAST TRAIN TO NIBROC at Actors' Summit with Keith Stevens and Shani Ferry

Tue Feb 2 11:29:38 PST 2010

*For Immediate Release*

*For additional information contact: *
*Neil Thackaberry (330) 342-0800*
*Hudson**, Ohio*

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*The Romance of *

*LAST TRAIN TO NIBROC***

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*Actors’ Summit Announces Another Regional Premiere *

Actors’ Summit, Hudson’s professional theater, is preparing for the regional
premiere of *Last Train to Nibroc* by Arlene Hutton.  This World War II
romance captures the optimism of America as it follows one couple’s journey
out of misunderstanding to love.  *Last Train to Nibroc* will have a preview
performance on Thursday, February 11, 2010, followed by the official opening
on Friday, February 12.  The play will run Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays at
8:00 PM and Sunday afternoons at 2:00 PM through February 28 at the theater
in downtown Hudson.

*About the Play*

Two young people meet in December 1940 on a California to New York bound
train.  May is a self-admitted goody two shoes schoolteacher with a "never
no mind" certainty about right and wrong.  She is feisty and religious and
plans to become a missionary.  Raleigh is a young soldier who has recently
been discharged from the Army air corps.  May will change trains to complete
her journey home to Corbin, Kentucky.  Raleigh is also a Kentuckian (in
fact, his home is close enough to Corbin for him to visit the annual Nibroc
Festival), but he is headed for New York City to become a writer.  This
ambition has been bolstered by the fact that the train is carrying the
bodies of two famous writers -- F. Scott Fitzgerald and Nathaniel West.

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Out of this chance meeting begins an unlikely romance that over time, draws
them together and pushes them apart.  Over the next three years, Raleigh and
May experience the changes in the country caused by the war, and changes in
their lives as they fight, challenge and eventually discover their love.  There
is no fairytale, happily ever after ending here -- just an honest look at
falling in love in simpler times, when people rode trains, wrote letters and
had dinner with their family on Sunday.

*The Performers*

Two of Actors’ Summit regular company members take the roles of May and
Raleigh.

*Shani Ferry* (May) returns after having appeared in this season’s opening
show, *Are* *We There Yet?*  Shani’s other credits with Actors’ Summit
include *Quilters, Inside Out, Swingtime Canteen*, and* The Shakespeare
Revue*.

*Keith Stevens* (Raleigh) was seen earlier this season in both *Are We There
Yet? and* *For Better.  *Other recent Actors’ Summit credits include:  *Don’t
Hug Me*, *Big Boys,* *Russians in Love, Main-Travelled Roads* & *Sanders
Family Christmas.  *Keith holds a MFA in Acting from The Actors Studio Drama
School and a BA in Theater from Cleveland State University.  He is a
lifetime member of the Actors Studio.

*The Director*

*Constance Thackaberry* is directing her fourth show at Actors’
Summit.  Previously,
Connie directed *Big Boys*, *Nixon’s Nixon *and* Rounding Third *and
she* *restaged
*Clarence Darrow for the Defense.  *She has also served as assistant
director for* Tremont*, *Macbeth, *and *Musical of Musicals, The
Musical!*  Other
directing credits include:  *For You*, *The Audience*, *Liner Notes*, *11th
Hour, To Be Confirmed*, and Sartre’s *No Exit* (Leicester, England).  She was
a co-creator of two original pieces for the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, of
which she is an alum.  She holds an MFA from The Actors Studio Drama School.

*Performance times:*

Performances are given Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays at 8:00 PM and Sundays
at 2:00 PM at the theater, located at 86 Owen Brown Street, Hudson, Ohio.

*Ticket Prices*

Preview tickets (February 11) are $16.  Regular performance tickets are $29
on Fridays & Saturdays, $26 on Thursdays & Sundays, with seniors receiving a
$3 discount at regular Thursday and Sunday performances.  Additional
discounts are available to groups of ten or more.

ALL full time student tickets (with ID) are $7 at all performances.

Season subscriptions are still available.

Tickets can be purchased by phone at (330) 342-0800 or from the website at *
www.actorssummit.org*.

*Web site**
*Actors’ Summit Theater can be found on the web at www.actorssummit.org.
Actors' Summit is a professional, not for profit, 501-c-3 professional arts
organization.
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