[NEohioPAL] "Lettice and Lovage" opening at Coach House Theatre

[Nancy Cates]

COACH HOUSE THEATRE

Box Office: 330-434-7741

732 W. Exchange Street

Akron, OH 44302

coachhousetheatre.com

 

Meet delightful "Lettice and Lovage" 

in Coach House Theatre comedy

March 24-April 10, 2011

($12 Preview Performance, Thursday, March 24 only)

 

 

Lettice and Lovage, a "sublime" comedy from the author of Equus and Amadeus,
will be on stage at Akron's Coach House Theatre March 24-April 10.

Lettice Duffet, an expert on Elizabethan cuisine and medieval weaponry, is
an indefatigable but daffy enthusiast of history and the theatre. As a tour
guide at Fustian House, one of the least stately of London's stately homes,
she theatrically embellishes its historical past, ultimately coming up on
the radar of Lotte Schon, an inspector from the Preservation Trust. Neither
impressed nor entertained by Lettice's freewheeling history lessons, Lotte
fires her. Not one, however, to go without a fight, Lettice engages the
stoic, conventional Lotte in a battle to the death of all that is sacred to
the Empire and the crown.

 

Lettice and Lovage will be presented March 24 to April 10. Curtain times are
Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., and Sunday matinees at 2:30 p.m.
Dinner or Brunch is available to all theatre patrons prior to every
performance at the Akron Woman's City Club next door. There will be a
special $12 preview performance Thursday, March 24 only, at 8 p.m., and an
added Saturday matinee on April 2 at 2:30pm.

 

Tickets are $18. 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, and at the corner of W. Exchange and N. Portage Path.
Tickets may be purchased by calling our box office at 330-434-7741, or
online at coachhousetheatre.com.        

 

The Cast

Lettice Douffet --- Tracee Patterson

Lotte Schoen --- JoMcGarvey

Miss Framer --- Lyla Schwartz

Mr. Bardolph --- Jim Fippin

A Surly Man - Alfred Anderson

Visitors to Fustian House - Kendra Schaefer, Bob Schaefer, 

Michael James, Debi D'Amico Kilivris

       

The Director

Terry Burgler, one of Coach House's two Artistic Directors, has worked as an
actor, director and producer nationally and internationally, performing at
the Globe Theatre in London, and winning accolades for his work as Artistic
Director at Porthouse Theatre and Ohio Shakespeare Festival. He was named
Outstanding Theatre Artists in 2007 by Arts Alive! for his theatrical
achievements, and he has won many awards as an actor and director. He is
also one of the two Artistic Directors of Ohio Shakespeare Festival, which
performs each summer at Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens, as well as periodically
at Coach House and the Players Guild of Canton. For Coach House, Terry has
appeared on stage in last season's Deathtrap and will perform in our next
show, Sleuth. He has directed our hit productions of You Can't Take It With
You, Witness for the Prosecution, Light up the Sky and Not Now, Darling! 

 

The Leading Lady

Although new to Coach House, Tracee Patterson (Lettice Duffet) is well known
to Northeast Ohio audiences.  Most recently she appeared with Dobama Theatre
as "Jean" in Dead Man's Cell Phone; she also played "Stevie" in Dobama's
critically-acclaimed production of The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? Other credits
include "Gloria/Science Officer" in Return to the Forbidden Planet (CSU
Summer Stages); "Woman 2" in Songs for a New World and "Luisa" in Nine (Cain
Park); "Frances" in Breakup Notebook: The Lesbian Musical,  "Emma" in Song
and Dance, "Arkadina" in The Seagull, "Mrs. Potts" in Beauty and the Beast,
and "Gertrude McFuzz" in Seussical (Beck Center for the Arts); "Zlata" in
Necessary Targets (Willoughby Fine Arts); "Yentl" in Yentl and "Aldonza" in
Man of La Mancha (Halle Theatre); "Susannah" in The Upstart Crow (Ohio
Shakespeare Festival); "Tracey" in Unbeatable (staged reading, Journey
Productions at WVIZ IdeaCenter); "Holly" in Nickeled and Dimed (Great Lakes
Theatre Festival/Cleveland Public Theatre); and in Cally's Tally, Tuesdays
with Morrie, and Staged Reading Festivals at the Cleveland Play House.
Tracee is particularly excited about joining Dorothy Silver in Fred
Sternfeld's fall 2011 production of A Little Night Music at the Fairmount
Performing Arts Conservatory. 

 

The Playwright

Peter Shaffer is the celebrated author of Equus and Amadeus, both Tony Award
winners for Best Play. A number of Shaffer's plays were made into movies,
including Five Finger Exercise (1962), The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1969),
Equus (1977), and Amadeus (1984), which won eight Academy Awards including
Best Picture. Shaffer is the twin brother of the late playwright Anthony
Shaffer, whose play Sleuth will appear at Coach House later this spring.

 

And join Coach House for the final show of our exciting 2010-11 season: 

Sleuth by Anthony Shaffer, starring Terry Burgler & Andrew Cruse, May 12 -
June 5, 2011

 

Visit us at  <http://www.coachhousetheatre.com/> www.coachhousetheatre.com!

 

 

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