[NEohioPAL] Mamai Theatre Company Presents THREE SISTERS

Kitty via NEohioPAL neohiopal at lists.neohiopal.org
Thu May 28 10:40:32 PDT 2015


For Immediate Release
Contact: Christine McBurney, Co-Producing Artistic Director
mamaitheatrecocleveland at gmail.com
216.382.5146
 
Mamai Theatre Company
Presents
THREE SISTERS  by Anton Chekhov
 
Cleveland, Ohio,  May 28, 2015 — Mamai Theatre Company opens its third season with new private and public funding grants, two new venues, and a production of Anton Chekhov's beloved classic, THREE SISTERS, directed by Co-Producing Artistic Director, Bernadette Clemens.
 
THREE SISTERS
 
THREE SISTERS follows Olga, Masha, and Irina as they struggle to let go  of their past and to shape their future. A domineering sister-in-law, romance, soldiers, and money all challenge the Prozorov family’s  happiness and unity. With artful depiction of three very different women, Chekhov fascinates audiences with his ability to articulate the chaos or peace of a single moment and the comedy of life’s struggles.
 
Director Bernadette Clemens notes: “THREE SISTERS is like a very fine still-life painting. The play has rich composition, intriguing contrast, and dark shadow highlighting the most delicate, ephemeral detail. It is everything we suspect a classic of a major playwright to be. Just when we enjoy the most infinitesimal, personal moment --a clock striking, a top spinning, finding a loose fork on the terrace-- Chekhov invites us to peek at the gaping, universal experience: love, war, time. Only Chekhov lets us laugh this way at the very things that are so frustrating, so mysterious about living. In THREE SISTERS, as in all of Chekhov’s plays, life is never about the future. It is inevitably, torturously, gloriously, and comically about the present moment.”
 
Three Sisters
by Anton Chekhov
 
Directed by Bernadette Clemens
 
Scenic Design by Don McBride
Costume Design by Debbie Marino
Sound Design by Bernadette Clemens
Lighting Design by Jeff Lockshine
Live Music by Joseph Milan, Accordion
                         & Joshua Smalley, Violin
 
JUNE 4 - 21, 2015        
Cleveland Masonic Performing Arts Center
DeMolay Room
3615 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44115
 
Thursdays - Saturdays at 7:30 pm
Sundays at 2:30 pm

See publicity photo of Natalie Green, Anjanette Hall, and Meghan Grover as Chekhov's THREE SISTERS here!

With, as the Three Sisters:
Natalie Green+ as Olga
Anjanette Hall* as Masha
Meghan Grover as Irina
 
And:
Tom Woodward* as Vershinin
Robert Hawkes as Chebutykin
Nate Miller as Tuzenbach
Curt Arnold as Kulygin
Shawn Mann as Andrei
Hillary Wheelock as Natasha
Tony Zanoni+ as Solyony
Ryan Stafford as Fedotik
Patrick D. Mooney as Rohde
Bernice Bolek as Anfisa
Stephen Vasse-Hansell as Ferapont
Joseph Milan as Accordion/Ensemble
Joshua Smalley as Violin/Ensemble
Kayla McDonald as Maid/Ensemble
 
     *Actor appears courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association
     +Equity Membership Candidate
 
Sunday, June 7th post-show talk-back event:
 
ANTON CHEKHOV'S PLAYS: LAUGH, LOVE, LIVE!
With Special Guest, Tom Fulton
Veteran director of THREE SISTERS, THE SEAGULL,
& THE CHERRY ORCHARD
Director, Academy for the Performing Arts
Former Artistic Director, Center Repertory Theatre, Phoenix Theatre Ensemble, Cain Park Summer Theatre, Cleveland Theatre Company, & Fairmount Center for the Arts
Former 5-year Company Member, The Cleveland Play House
& the Cast of THREE SISTERS
 
TICKETS:  www.mamaitheatreco.org  or  216.382.5146
 
Adults: $22
Seniors (65 & older): $20
Students (25 & under): $15
 
Air-Conditioned. Ample free parking in gated lot and on street. Open seating with the exception of press and sponsors. Please arrive early.
 
Mamai Theatre Company was co-founded in 2010 by Bernadette Clemens, Wendy Kriss, Christine McBurney, and Derdriu Ring. Mamai (pronounced Mah' may) is the Gaelic word for “mother.” Four working mothers, theatre artists, colleagues, and friends arrived at a place where it was time to create opportunities for themselves and their community. “Don’t wait to create” became the inspiration for Mamai Theatre Company.

Our mission is to create intelligent, relevant classical theatre that offers an artistic home for Cleveland's theatre artists, and equal opportunity for women in the professional theatre community.

In 2013 The Plain Dealer announced, “Mamai Theatre Company...has made a howling entrance onto the city’s artistic scene” and named their inaugural production, Medea, a top-10 theatre event of the year. In 2014 LandofCleve.net added, “In only a few short years, Mamai Theatre Company has established themselves as a major player in the Cleveland theatre community. We are a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.
 
Subscription Series Continues with...
A Streetcar Named Desire
by Tennessee Williams
Directed by Mitchell Fields
 
JULY 16 - AUGUST 2, 2015
Cleveland Masonic Performing Arts Center
DeMolay Room
3615 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44115
 
Sunday, July 19th post-show talk-back event:
 
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS ON STAGE & SCREEN
With Special Guest, Mitchell Fields
Director of A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE &
Adjunct Professor of Film and Theatre, Baldwin Wallace University
& the cast of A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
 
Air-Conditioned. Ample free parking in gated lot and on street. Open seating with the exception of press and sponsors. Please arrive early.
 
Death and the Maiden
by Ariel Dorfman
Directed by Katia P. Schwarz
 
SEPTEMBER 17 - OCTOBER 4, 2015
Kennedy's at Playhouse Square
1501 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44115
 
Sunday,  September 20th & 27th talk back events:
 
Sunday, September 20th
LIVING UNDER A DICTATORSHIP
Panelists will include guests who have experienced life under dictatorship.

Sunday, September 27th
HEALING FROM TRAUMA
Panelists will include Alexander Leslie, Director of Prevention Programs from the Cleveland Rape Crisis Center.
 
Air-Conditioned. Ample area garage and street parking. Open seating with the exception of press and sponsors. Please arrive early.
 
Note: This production venue is not ADA Accessible.


Mamai Special Offer: $10 Discount Tickets for Neohiopal subscribers on 2nd Thursdays and AEA members on third thursdays! 


www.mamaitheatreco.org        
mamaitheatrecocleveland at gmail.com      

                                               

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