[NEohioPAL] EVENT: Final Weekend to See Dover Players New Comedy, SMOKE RING !

[Mark Little]

EVENT: Final Weekend to See Dover Players New Comedy, SMOKE RING !

 

The Dover Players community theater group celebrates the summer season with
the world premiere of a 

new comedy, SMOKE RING, written and directed by award-winning local
playwright, Gregory J. Lavelle. 

 

A word from our playwright.  

 

"My play, SMOKE RING, is a comedy about faith and procrastination, an
admonishment to make the most of life and savor it, for it may be over at
any moment".  I first started writing it as a short story "a little while
ago" - in 1978.  The tag line of the play is, "It ain't that serious.  It's
just the end of the world".  The play takes place in a computer lab at Case
Western Reserve University where graduate student, Charlie Morris, is
assigned to monitor the stars, but, sorta "puts it off" until an anomaly,
Smoke Ring is poised to wipe out all of humanity.  The play tracks the final
three weeks before the arrival of Smoke Ring through the eyes of Charlie,
the scientists, the media and a man and woman on the street.  The comedy and
mystery is provided mainly by Elsie, the Liquid Crystal Computer, which
replies literally and frustratingly to all questions.  Elsie always tells
the literal truth to the specific questions asked leaving Charlie and the
less astute members of the audience astray.  

The two main characters, Charlie and Warren are me talking to me.  Charlie
is the nice guy who never gets around to accomplishing anything and Warren
is a man who has strong faith in God and who knows that our purpose in life
is to make the most of it and to appreciate the most important things family
and friends.

 

When I write plays with an "unpredictable" ending, I leave clues which would
give the astute audience members hints as to the conclusion.  My first play,
a comedy, Jake's Dilemma, the mystery for Jake and the audience to solve is
whether a tourist couple claiming to be from New York are actually
extraterrestrials.  I have also written an audience interactive jury trial
murder mystery, A Question of Guilt, with four different endings where the
clues change subtly from performance to performance to lead the audience to
discover the proper murderer.

 

SMOKE RING 

 

Starring Elsie, our computer.

 

Cast:
Warren .......................            Dale Hruska
Bonnie/Shirley ......................           Holly Prather
Girl/Elsie .......................................           Natalie Romano 
Man/Larry/Student ....................            Ron Young
Janice .......................           Mandy Bics
Charlie/Compmax/Floozie ................          Gregory J. Lavelle
Professor .......................          Mark Little

Newsman/Mo ......................          Bill Ransom

Production Crew:

Stage Director .....................          Marge Berke

Technical Director ..................          Mark Little 

Box Office/Refreshments/Publicity ...........        Linda Little

Reservations .....................          Todd Evangelista

 

Remaining Performance Dates:   Jul. 26-28           

Remaining Performance Times:  Friday and Saturday 8:00 p.m.,  Sunday 3:00
p.m. 

(There is a brief intermission for each performance when light refreshments
will be served.)

 

Location:

North Olmsted Old Town Hall

5186 Dover Center Road

North Olmsted, OH 44070

NOTE: The Old Town Hall is located just south of the intersection of Dover
Center Road (runs North and South) and Lorain Avenue (runs East and West) in
North Olmsted. As you travel south on Dover Center Road you will pass the
Police Station on the right. The Old Town Hall is the small building between
the Police Station and City Hall. You may park in the lot to the left of the
Old Town Hall building. 

(Handicapped accessible via a ramp located at the back entrance of the Old
Town Hall.) 

 

 

Cost:

Admission is FREE, first come, first serve.  Arrive early for best seats to
view the performance. 

Or, call Acting Out! at 440-779-1284 for reservations available for $5.00
per seat. 

 

 

 

 

 

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