[NEohioPAL] ONLY TWO MORE WEEKENDS to see The Caucasian Chalk Circle!

[August Scarpelli]

The Caucasian Chalk Circle Opens

Shahrazad Theatre Company’s Inaugural Season

Ensemble Theatre presents

Shahrazad Theatre Company’s adaptation of

Bertold Brecht’s Caucasian Chalk Circle

October 27 -- November 12

Fridays & Saturdays - 8pm

Sundays - 2pm

Ensemble’s Playground Theatre Space

Cleveland Heights, OH (October 24, 2017) -- Ensemble Theatre ushers in the
next generation of Cleveland theatre as the incubator for the new Shahrazad
Theatre Company (STC). The new company is co-founded by three Artistic
Associates of Ensemble and graduates of Hiram College, Kayla Davis (‘14),
Kyle Huff (‘14), and August Scarpelli (‘16).

Shahrazad Theatre Company’s inaugural production is of Bertolt Brecht’s
parable, The Caucasian Chalk Circle (translated and adapted by STC)
performed in Ensemble’s Playground Theatre -- 2843 Washington Blvd,
Cleveland Heights OH 44118.

Much like Ensemble Theatre, STC is dedicated to works that “celebrate the
human spirit and it’s struggle.” Much like the revolutionary playwrights
and artists who changed the conversations theatre could have, STC believes
a fresh and living light can be shed on the facets and flaws of the modern
human condition.

Chalk Circle features a group of well-known local actors including Robert
Hawkes, Valerie Young, James Rankin, Tim Young, Andrew Keller, Katelyn
Rotuno, Hannah Storch, Steve Vase-Hansell, Allen Branstein, Kayla Davis,
and August Scarpelli. Kyle Huff is directing the STC adaptation.

About The Caucasian Chalk Circle: With the help of a few wayward actors,
two divided and destitute post-war villages in the middle of a heated
debate over “their” land, share the story of Grusha, a peasant who is given
an abandoned and noble child whom she chooses to raise as her own. It is a
long and dangerous journey into the northern mountains to find the child a
home; all while her beloved fiance is at war. Meanwhile, the city is in
flames -- a scoundrel and drunkard is appointed judge, and suddenly the
child's mother decides she wants him back! Grusha is put on trial. In this
"golden age,” law and justice will be tested; will it bend or will it
break?

In light of Ensemble theatre’s 2017/18 season entitled “We the People” and
the recent events concerning the future of the Coventry Corner, the last
lines of the play resound clearly:

“And you who have listened to the story of the chalk circle,

Bear in mind the age-old wisdom:

That all things should belong to those who would do well by them,

Children to the motherly, so they may thrive,

Cars to good drivers, so they may be well driven.

And the valley to the waterers, that it may bear fruit”.

Tickets are $12-15 and are available atwww.EnsembleTheatreCLE.org
<http://www.ensembletheatrecle.org/>

For reservations and information, call216-202-0938 <(216)%20202-0938>.

BERTOLT BRECHT’S CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE

October 27th -- November 12th

Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm

Sundays at 2pm

BOX OFFICE INFORMATION

216-202-0938 <(216)%20202-0938>

EnsembleTheatreCLE.org

info at ensemble-theatre.org

WHERE

2843 W. Washington Blvd

Cleveland Heights, OH 44118

PARKING

Parking can be found in the Coventry School parking lot to the south of the
theatre, also along Washington Blvd and surrounding streets.
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