[NEohioPAL] THIS WEEKEND: CPT's American Falls by Miki Johnson is "riveting" -- onstage 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

Onstage through December 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)


"Miki Johnson has suddenly become my favorite young playwright. [American Falls]

is like electro-shock therapy - it clears your brain of anything that has come before it."
-The Plain Dealer<http://www.cleveland.com/onstage/index.ssf/2014/12/darkness_and_light_life_and_de.html>

"For those of you who have had enough of tinsel, mistletoe and holly and need some gritty earth grounding theater, Cleveland Public Theatre has the show for you...[American Falls] will firmly sock you in the gizzard.
-Examiner.com<http://www.axs.com/cleveland-public-theatre-s-american-falls-will-shake-your-gumdrops-32203>

Shows Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Monday at 7:00, CPT's James Levin Theatre. Onstage Dec 4-20.
Tickets $12 - $28
Thursdays & Mondays just $12!

www.cptonline.org<http://www.cptonline.org> | 216-631-2727 x501

**EVERY FRIDAY is Free Beer Friday - mingle with artists after the show and enjoy your drinks on us.
Tickets available at www.cptonline.org<http://www.cptonline.org> or (216) 631-2727 x501. (And no ticket fees, ever.)


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

See what's playing tonight, go to www.cptonline.org<http://www.cptonline.org/>

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