[NEohioPAL] Introducing Youth Educational Outreach Program: Mamai Matinees!

[Christine via NEohioPAL]

For Immediate Release

Contact: Christine McBurney, C0-Artistic Director

mamaitheatrecocleveland at gmail.com

www.mamaitheatreco.org

440.394.8353


Introducing Youth Educational Outreach Program:

Mamai Matinees

Cleveland, Ohio,  March 1, 2016 — Now in its fourth season, Mamai Theatre
Company <http://www.mamaitheatreco.org/> is pleased to announce its new
Youth Educational Outreach Program: Mamai Matinees
<http://www.mamaitheatreco.org/#!youth-outreach/cqdu>.

Co-Founder Wendy Kriss returns to staff as Mamai’s first Education
Associate. She will steer the new Mamai Matinee program conceived by
Co-Founder Derdriu Ring, which invites children ages 5-7 to an interactive
workshop full of storytelling, movement, music and visual artwork with new
friends. Children will experience a collage of art activities designed to
promote self-expression, comfort and confidence in the creative process,
and the development of collaboration skills.

Beginning in the 2016 season, patrons can register children ages 5-7 for
this drama workshop in an adjacent location while enjoying Mamai’s Sunday
2:30pm matinee performance. One (1) adult admission is included with child
registration fee.  The  dates for the Mamai Matinees are June 12 (TOP
GIRLS), July 24 (LADY WINDERMERE’S FAN), July 28 (THE WOMAN HATER).
Register here <https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?retail=mtco>.

2016 Benefit: WOMEN ON FIRE

A few tickets remain for our 2016 Benefit: WOMEN ON FIRE,  Monday, March 7,
2016 at 7:00 pm at  the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage
<http://www.maltzmuseum.org/>, 2929 Richmond Rd, Beachwood, OH 44122.

The evening begins with a wine selection, hors d’oeuvres by Dante
<http://dante.danteboccuzzi.com/> and other Cleveland foodie favorites;
admission to the Maltz Museum <http://www.maltzmuseum.org/> galleries; a
silent auction featuring items from Cleveland’s local, independent, small
business and arts organizations including Actors Summit Theate
<http://www.actorssummit.org/>r, Apollo’s Fire <http://apollosfire.org/>, Belt
Publishing <http://beltmag.com/>, The Cleveland Museum of Art
<http://www.clevelandart.org/>, The Cleveland Museum of Natural History
<https://www.cmnh.org/>, Hyde Park <http://www.hydeparkrestaurants.com/>, On
the Rise <http://ontheriseartisanbreads.com/>, Pier W
<http://selectrestaurants.com/the-restaurants/pier-w/>, Quintana’s Barber &
Dream Spa <http://www.qbds.net/>, The Stone Oven
<http://www.stone-oven.com/>, Salon 180 <http://www.salon180.com/> and
others.

This exciting evening concludes with a rarely performed staged reading of
WOMEN ON FIRE by Irene O’Garden <https://ireneogarden.com/>, directed by
Cleveland playwright, actor, and director, Juliette Regnier, and featuring
Ursula Cataan*, Maryann Elder, Katrice Head, Julia Kolibab*, Tracee
Patterson*, and Jeanne Task (*Member Actors Equity Association).

Director Juliette Regnier says O’Garden’s women are “uniquely drawn
characters with passion and guts whom you have never met before but you
will get to know, fueled by the passion and guts of some of our Cleveland
actresses .”

The New York Times called Women on Fire "bewitching ... astounding
...heartbreaking." From ad exec to Midwest mom to caregiver to construction
worker, each character is on fire in her own way - with passion, fear,
self-discovery, even shopping! O’Garden’s work explores the breadth of
women's issues with humor and wisdom.

Seating is limited to 50 patrons only and tickets may be purchased at
www.mamaitheatreco.org or by phoning 440.394.8353.

2016 Season Tickets Now On Sale

Tickets are on sale now for Mamai’s 2016 Summer Season of classical theatre
in Cleveland! Mamai is thrilled to return downtown to The Cleveland Masonic
Performing Arts Center <http://www.paccleveland.com/>, 3615 Euclid Avenue
at E. 36th Street, with free and ample parking in an onsite gated lot,
air-conditioning, and ADA-accessibility. Mamai will mount all three of its
2016 productions on the beautiful 1920s proscenium stage inside the DeMolay
Room.


Mamai is thrilled to return downtown to The Cleveland Masonic Performing
Arts Center <http://www.paccleveland.com/>, 3615 Euclid Avenue at E. 36th
Street, with free and ample parking in an onsite gated lot,
air-conditioning, and ADA-accessibility. Mamai will mount all three of its
2016 productions on the beautiful 1920s proscenium stage inside the DeMolay
Room.

Top Girls

By Caryl Churchill

Directed by Jaime Bouvier

June 2-19, 2016

Scenic Design by Don McBride

Costume Design by Suzy Campbell

Lighting Design by Rob Peck

Sound Design by Carlton Guc

Properties Design by Monica Plunkett

Top Girls transgresses ancient to modern femininity in two distinct acts.
Act One features an imagined restaurant table full of ladies who lunch...
in a time-traveling dialogue from various centuries and cultures in
womankind's history! Act Two is a springboard departure into family drama--
a personal examination of relationships between mother, daughter, sister,
aunt, and friend.

Talkback facilitated by two Shaker Heights High School International
Baccalaureate English Faculty, Chris Coton and Chuck Kelly on Sunday, June
12.

Lady Windermere's Fan

By Oscar Wilde

Directed Bernadette Clemens

July 14-31, 2016

Scenic Design by Don McBride

Costume Design by Suzy Campbell

Lighting Design by Rob Peck

Sound Design by Carlton Guc

Properties Design by Monica Plunkett

Oscar Wilde fans the flames of Edwardian social change with his typical
adroitness. Comedy and manners offer a tongue-lashing, suspenseful assault
on Victorian values. An attractive stranger invades the domestic bliss of
Lady & Lord Windermere, and her past has the potential to drastically alter
their future. Lord Darlington plays a hand. All bets hinge on chance, fate,
accident... and a fan.

The Woman Hater - U.S. Premiere!

By Fanny Burney

Directed Christine McBurney

August 18-September 4, 2016

Scenic Design by Don McBride

Costume Design by Angelina Herin

Lighting Design by Rob Peck

Sound Design by Richard Ingraham

Properties Design by Monica Plunkett

An absurdly satirical indictment of the excesses of both men and women,
this 1802 comedy remained unproduced until 2003. When Sir Roderick is
jilted by Lady Smatter, he proclaims himself a woman-hater and is
determined to keep his young heir away from the opposite sex. Identities
are mistaken, social pretensions are deliciously exposed, and the gender
constructs of wifely and daughterly duties are boldly upended — bringing
forth a new kind of heroine.

You can sponsor <http://www.mamaitheatreco.org/#!tickets/cvvh>, join our
mailing list <http://www.mamaitheatreco.org/#!tickets/cvvh> or purchase
tickets <http://www.mamaitheatreco.org/#!three-sisters/cguq> online!

TICKETS:   <http://sic.brownpapertickets.com/>www.Mamaitheatreco.org
<http://www.mamaitheatreco.org>

or 440.394.8353

Adults: $22

Seniors (65 & older): $20

Students (25 & under): $15

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.

www.Mamaitheatreco.org <http://www.mamaitheatreco.org>

Mamaitheatrecocleveland at gmail.com <mamaitheatrecocleveland at gmail.com>


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