[NEohioPAL] This Weekend! $5 “What the Butler Saw” at Western Reserve Playhouse

[Hannah Hilty]

*WRP presents it’s first $5 Buck Series reading! All tickets are ONLY $5!*


*Western Reserve Playhouse **presents:*

*“What the Butler Saw”*

A Comedy by Joe Orton

Directed by Jim Fippin

Show Date: January 26, 2020 @ 2PM

Tickets: www.thewrp.org

Western Reserve Playhouse will kick off their 2020 $5 Play Reading Series
with a rehearsed reading of Joe Orton’s savagely satirical farce, *What the
Butler Saw*, a mind-bending mash-up of British sex-farce and Monty
Python-esque outrageousness. “The Python analogy is apt,” says Jim Fippin,
who, in addition to directing *What the Butler Saw*, is the $5 Buck Series
coordinator. “Orton was influenced by a lot the same things that drove the
Pythons in the sixties, but he also had a genius for crafting dialogue
rivaled only by Oscar Wilde. I have loved this play from the very first
moment I read it, and am very excited to share it with an audience as part
of the $5 Series.” *What the Butler Saw *will be performed as a rehearsed
reading on Sunday, January 26 at 2:00 p.m. at Western Reserve Playhouse,
3326 Everett Road, in Bath, Ohio. General Admission Tickets are $5.00 each.

*What the Butler Saw* starts “innocently” enough, with an attempt by
psychiatrist Doctor Prentice to seduce Geraldine Barclay, an applicant for
the position of his secretary. But the unexpected arrival of Mrs. Prentice on
the scene is only the first of many interruptions: the police, a government
inspector, and a bell-boy are soon running amok in a flurry of mistaken and
concealed identities, states of undress, gunfire, and the search for a
missing “part” of a statue of Sir Winston Churchill.

The roles of Doctor and Mrs. Prentice will be read by James Rankin and
Holly Facer. Mr. Rankin was last seen by Western Reserve audiences in last
season’s reading of *Finks*. Ms. Facer was a $5 Series regular in 2019,
appearing in *Finks*, *Sirens,* and *Dead Accounts*. Erin Moore, most
recently seen at Weathervane Playhouse in *And Then There Were None,* will
play Geraldine Barclay, making her WRP debut. Akron theatre veteran Alex J.
Nine will play Doctor Rance. Mr. Nine has appeared on stages throughout the
area, including Ohio Shakespeare Festival, Weathervane, and most recently
at Western Reserve Playhouse in *Sirens*.  Cameron Zona, last seen at
Western Reserve in *The Bridges of Madison County*, will play Nicholas
Beckett*.* Bob Maddox is an actor whose recent relocation to Northeast Ohio
landed him in Weathervane’s *And Then There Were None*, and in the
role of Sergeant
Match.

*What the Butler Saw* will be performed only once, on Sunday, January 26 at
2:00 p.m. Tickets are $5.00 each and may be purchased online at the Western
Reserve Playhouse website (thewrp.org) or by calling the box office at
330-620-7314.

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