[NEohioPAL] Tonight at 7: It's A KIDS' HOUSE at the Alcazar

[Jean Seitter Cummins]

FIRST MONDAYS welcomes playwright Margaret Hunt back to The Alcazar on
Monday, May 2 at 7 p.m. with a reading of A KIDS’ HOUSE, a tender comedy
about three college students sharing a house while attending a Catholic
women’s college just outside Chicago in the early 70s.  It’s the age of
protest, but their biggest issue is getting the landlord to turn up the heat
and staying awake long enough to finish their reading assignments.

It’s “A Kids’ House,” as the title tells us, but the grown-up world is
pushing in.  One of the roommates has a serious health condition, another
has a brother wounded in Vietnam.  And there’s always the big “V.”  A copy
of “138 Sexual Positions” is circulating through the house, but just who’s
reading it and whether their interest is academic or strategic is not always
clear.

If you can remember a time when “to be or not to be” had sexual
implications, you need to laugh and maybe cry a little in A KIDS’ HOUSE.
The cast features Allison Bencar, Heather Farr, Eva Brettrager, Tim Keo,
Bryan Heard, Ryan Mayer and Elliott Berenson.

Margaret, whose play THE RAVENS FEED US was one of the hits of our 2009/10
season, will be joining us from her home in Manhattan for the reading and
discussion. Margaret’s work has been produced in New York, Chicago and Rome.
Her comedy Think or Die about the legendary Severn Darden was a
semi-finalist for this year’s National Playwrights Conference (The O'Neill).

The landmark Alcazar is located at 2450 Derbyshire, just at the top of Cedar
Hill in the Cedar-Fairmount neighborhood. Admission is $5 at the door.
Parking is available on the street and in the metered double-decker parking
structure just off Cedar at Surrey. Call (216) 321-5400 on the day of the
program for access to the handicapped parking and elevator entrance.  Visit
us on the web at http:firstmondays.weebly.com.