[NEohioPAL] Final Week of TO THE ORCHARD

Playwrights Local 4181 via NEohioPAL neohiopal at lists.neohiopal.org
Tue Jun 7 06:22:12 PDT 2016


Playwrights Local 4181 proudly concludes its world premiere of Les Hunter’s
contemporary drama To the Orchard. Directed by Dale Heinen, the play
runs for a final weekend, June 10 through 12, at Dobama Theatre in
Cleveland Heights.


In To the Orchard, college student Rachel Bergman reveals her sexual
identity to her Orthodox Jewish father, who also is struggling with his own
hidden past. In coming to terms with each other--and themselves--the pair
must reconcile the conflicting pulls of tradition and individual desire.
The play takes place in Brooklyn in the recent past, but incorporates
dreamlike visits to turn-of-the-century England and the lost Jewish Eastern
Europe. The spirits of Robert Plant and Virginia Woolf add a touch of magic
realism to this intimate work about making mistakes, coming clean, and the
power of history and family.

The cast of To the Orchard features Robert Branch, Kelsey Angel Baehrens,
Andrea Belser, and Michael Regnier. For more information, including other
collaborators, please visit http://playwrightslocal.org/to-the-orchard/.


Read Bob Abelman's review in the *Cleveland Jewish News: "
<http://the%20performances%20soar%20when%20Hunter%E2%80%99s%20words%20seem%20to%20fly%20from%20the%20page%20and%20are%20as%20poetic%20as%20they%20are%20poignant,%20which%20happens%20often./>**the
performances soar when Hunter’s words seem to fly from the page!"
<http://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/columnists/engaging-to-the-orchard-pits-tradition-against-desire/article_ba765f9e-2690-11e6-8ad3-bb5b0c32dd80.html>*


Hear an interview with the playwright
<http://www.ideastream.org/programs/sound-of-applause/playwrights-local-4181-to-the-orchard>
on Sound of Applause!

Tickets are $15 for adults, $12 for seniors, and $10 for students. To buy
online, see http://playwrightslocal.org/to-the-orchard-tickets/.
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