[NEohioPAL] OPENING WEEKEND: Stunning new drama "American Falls" by Miki Johnson - onstage at CPT (Dec 4-20)

[Cathleen O'Malley via NEohioPAL]

Stunning new play at Cleveland Public Theatre

explores "America's improbable experiment"

AMERICAN FALLS<http://www.cptonline.org/performances/seasons/2014-2015/american-falls/>



Written by Miki Johnson

Directed by Raymond Bobgan

December 4 - 20


About the Show
A day in the lives of six living people and two dead ones in American Falls, Idaho. From a ghost drinking beer in a lawn chair to a Native American shoe salesman, the population of American Falls is the product of "America's improbable experiment." As these paths traverse in and out of each others' stories, the play carries us from Bruce Willis in Moonlighting to the actual moon; from conceiving babies while drunk on Budweiser beer to the difficulties of those babies, and the adults they become; and from the cool pain of alienation to the warm embrace of belonging. American Falls asks ancient, unanswerable questions: What is it to live? What becomes of the child on the road to adulthood? What is it like to grow old? What does it mean to die? Told in a poetic and sensuous interplay of stories, monologues and one horrifying makeover, Miki Johnson's American Falls "reminds us what great theatre has always been about is great storytelling." (Houston Chronicle)

About the Playwright
Miki Johnson is a playwright currently based out of Houston TX where she is the Playwright in Residence for The Alley Theatre Education Program. American Falls was Miki's first play produced by Houston's The Catastrophic Theatre. Houston Press named her Best Playwright 2012 in their annual Houston Theatre Awards. Later that same year, Catastrophic produced Fleaven, a hip-hop musical written in rhyme, and in 2013 her drama clean/through won her Houston Press' Best New Play award.  With Catastrophic, she's acted in Endgame, Crave by Sarah Kane, Bluefinger by Jason Nodler, The Designated Mourner and Our Late Night by Wallace Shawn, and Spirits to Enforce and The Pine by Mickle Maher. In 2005 she received her MFA in Acting from Yale University.  She's currently working on a commission for Playwrights Horizons, NYC.



Cast includes Dionne Atchison, Faye Hargate, Chris Seibert, Adam Seeholzer, Darius Stubbs, Anthony Sevier, PJ McCready and Ryan Edlinger.



Ticket & Show Information
December 4-20
Thu/Fri/Sat/Mon at 7pm, CPT's James Levin Theatre
Tickets $12 - $28
Thursdays & Mondays just $12!
(And no ticket fees, ever.)

www.cptonline.org<http://www.cptonline.org> | 216-631-2727 x501
6415 Detroit Avenue, Cleveland OH 44102

**EVERY FRIDAY is Free Beer Friday - mingle with artists after the show and enjoy your drinks on us.

Cathleen O'Malley
Director of Audience Engagement & Media Relations
Cleveland Public Theatre
(216) 631-2727 x 212
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