[NEohioPAL] Coach House opening romantic drama "Sea Marks"

[Nancy Cates]

COACH HOUSE THEATRE

Box Office: 330-434-7741

732 W. Exchange Street

Akron, OH 44302

 <http://coachhousetheatre.com> coachhousetheatre.com

 

Prepare to fall in love with

"Sea Marks" at Coach House Theatre

March 14-April 7, 2013

$12 Preview Performance, Thursday, March 14 only!

(No shows on Easter weekend, March 28-31)

 

Coach House Theatre, "Akron's hidden gem," proudly presents Sea Marks, an
emotional and eloquent love story by Gardner McKay, from March 14 to April
7. 

In this rarely-produced play, a fisherman (Coach House Artistic Director
Terry Burgler) living on a remote Irish island falls in love with a woman
he's glimpsed only once (Tracee Patterson, who last appeared at Coach House
in 2011's Lettice and Lovage, for which she won the Royal Coach Award for
Best Actress). Unschooled in letter writing, but with the heart of a poet,
he courts her by mail, despite the impossibilities of distance and
lifestyle.

Sea Marks will be presented March 14 to April 7. Curtain times are Thursday,
Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., with Sunday matinees at 2:30 p.m. Dinner or
Brunch are available to all theatre patrons prior to every performance at
the Akron Woman's City Club, next door (reservations required,
330-762-6261). 

There will be a special $12 preview performance Thursday, March 14 only, at
8 p.m. There are no shows on Easter weekend, March 28-31.

The official opening night is Friday, March 15, with an (optional) opening
night dinner party at the Club prior.

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 at
www.coachhousetheatre.com. 

 

The Cast

Colm --- Terry Burgler

Timothea --- Tracee Patterson

 

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. He has directed Coach
House's hit productions of A Moon for the Misbegotten, You Can't Take It
With You, Witness for the Prosecution, Light up the Sky and Royal Coach
Award winners for Best Production Not Now, Darling! (2008-09), Lettice and
Lovage (2010-11) and Move Over, Mrs. Markham (2011-12). He also has appeared
on stage in Deathtrap and Sleuth, and he memorably directed and starred in
the acclaimed Coach House production of Shipwrecked!, which opened the
2011-12 season. 

 

The Playwright

Gardner McKay was Hollywood actor in the 1950s and 1960s, before pursuing
other interests including photography, sculpture and writing. He wrote many
plays and novels, and was a literary critic for the Los Angeles Time Herald
in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He was awarded three National Endowment
for the Arts fellowships for playwriting.

 

Next on stage

Don't miss the final show of Coach House's fantastic 2012-13 season, the
riotous comedy The Fox on the Fairway by Ken Ludwig, author of Lend Me a
Tenor and Leading Ladies, May 9-June 2. Visit us at
<http://www.coachhousetheatre.com/> www.coachhousetheatre.com! 

 

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