[NEohioPAL] "Sleuth" coming to Coach House Theatre

[Nancy Cates]

COACH HOUSE THEATRE

Box Office: 330-434-7741

732 W. Exchange Street

Akron, OH 44302

coachhousetheatre.com

 

 

Coach House closes its season with classic thriller!

"Sleuth" plays May 12-June 5, 2011

Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays at 8 p.m.; Sundays at 2:30 p.m.

$12 Preview Performance, Thursday, May 12 only, 8 p.m.

Saturday matinee, May 21 at 2:30 p.m.

 

 

Coach House closes its season with Sleuth, a classic thriller!

Andrew Wyke (Terry Burgler) is an immensely successful mystery writer, whose
manor home reflects his obsession with games and game-playing. He lures his
wife's lover, Milo Tindle (Andrew Cruse), to the house and convinces him to
stage a robbery of her jewelry, a proposal that sets off a chain of events
that leaves the audience trying to decipher where Wyke's imagination ends
and reality begins.

 

Sleuth will be presented May 12 to June 5. Curtain times are Thursday,
Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., with 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, May 12 (only) at 8 p.m. There will also be a Saturday
matinee May 21 at 2:30 p.m.

 

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.
Reservations may be made by calling our box office at 330-434-7741, or
online at www.coachhousetheatre.com.

 

 

The Cast

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
appeared on stage in last season's Deathtrap. He directed our hit
productions of You Can't Take It With You, Witness for the Prosecution,
Light up the Sky, Lettice and Lovage and Not Now, Darling! 

 

   Andrew Cruse is a professional actor and director in the area. A native
of Allentown, Pa., he has worked on stages large and small in New York City
and across the country, including Playwrights Horizons, The Kennedy Center,
North Shore Music Theatre, The Public Theatre of Maine, and The Cape
Playhouse, Dobama Theatre and Ensemble Theatre in Cleveland, to name a few.
He serves as associate artistic director of Ohio Shakespeare Festival. He
directed this season's murder mystery at Coach House, The Unexpected Guest,
and was the assistant director for last season's Witness for the
Prosecution. He was seen on stage in last season's Deathtrap at Coach House,
and in The Taming of the Shrew and King Lear last summer at Ohio Shakespeare
Festival, as well as Humble Boy at Dobama this past year. Andrew earned a
BFA in Theatre from Boston University, and an MFA from Kent State. He has
been a proud member of Actors' Equity since 1989.

 

       The Director

  Nancy Cates is the second of our two Artistic Directors. She also directed
two hit shows at Coach House this season: Present Laughter and The Gin Game.
In past seasons she has directed Deathtrap, Doubt: A Parable, Steel
Magnolias, Barrymore's Ghost, Tonight at 8:30, Oh Coward!, and Royal Coach
Award winners for Best Production Hay Fever (2006-2007), Driving Miss Daisy,
(2007-2008) and Leading Ladies (2009-10). She is also one of the two
Artistic Directors of the 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.

Nancy is a member of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC). 

 

 

The Playwright

Anthony Shaffer was born in Liverpool and graduated with a law degree from
Trinity College, Cambridge. He adapted the Tony award-winning Sleuth for the
1972 film version of the same name, which starred Laurence Olivier and
Michael Caine, and was nominated for several Oscars. Shaffer received Edgar
Awards from the Mystery Writers of America for both versions: for Best Play
in 1971, and Best Screenplay in 1973. His other major screenplays include
the Hitchcock thriller Frenzy (1972) and the British cult thriller The
Wicker Man (1973). Director Kenneth Branagh and writer Harold Pinter later
adapted Sleuth into a 2007 film, this time starring Caine and Jude Law.

   Shaffer, who died in 2001, was the identical twin brother of writer and
dramatist Peter Shaffer, whose play Lettice and Lovage was directed by Terry
Burgler at Coach House earlier this season.

 

Mark your calendars now, for Coach House's fantastic, just-announced
2011-2012 season: 

 

Shipwrecked! An Entertainment: The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont
(as told by himself)

by Donald Marguiles

September 29-October 16

 

The Philadelphia Story

by Phillip Barry

November 25-December 18

 

And Then There Were None

by Agatha Christie

January 26-February 19

 

A Moon for the Misbegotten

by Eugene O'Neill

March 22-April 7

 

Move Over, Mrs. Markham

by Ray Cooney and John Chapman

May 10-June 3

 

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

 

 

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