"The Art of Dining" By Tina Howe Directed by Robert Ellis Cal and Ellen are the owners and sole staff of a small, elegant gourmet restaurant. Cal's main preoccupation is paying back the $75,000 it cost to start it up, and that means packing in the customers. Chef Ellen is preoccupied with the food's quality and stopping Cal from sampling the ingredients. The diners act out their own private dramas over dinner and their conversations are exquisite burlesques of contemporary attitudes. There's a sensual middle aged couple who go into paroxysms of ecstasy just reading the menu and then there's three crass chic young career women. Finally, there's Elizabeth, a maladroit, shy and neurotic writer who's dining with her prospective publisher. Her actions and conversation are unintentionally hilarious and a delicious example of how not to act and what not to talk about while dining. Cast: Ellen - Kennedy Ellis Cal - Gordon Hinchen Hannah Galt - Gabi DeFelice Paul Galt - Carter Ellis Elizabeth Barrow Colt - Kaitlyn Levigne Herrick Simmons - Julia Watson Nessa Vox - Jasmine Alshabani Tony Stassio - Liana Chapman David Osslow - Jon Heus Performances are April 22, 23, 28, 29, 30 @ 8:00pm, April 24 & May 1st @ 2pm and a Matinee performance on April 28 @ 10:30am Tickets: $10 - Adult, $8 Non Tri-C Student & Faculty/Staff. Group rate of ten or more available for $7. FREE for Tri-C students with a valid ID. Tickets can be purchased online by going to www.tri-c.trickets.com<http://www.tri-c.trickets.com> or by calling the Box Office: 216-987-5536 Fred Gloor Tri-C Western Campus Theatre Dept. 11000 Pleasant Valley Rd. Parma, Ohio 44130 216-987-5536 For tickets go to http://www.trictickets.com<http://www.trictickets.com/> Tri-C (r) Where futures begin SM www.tri-c.edu<http://www.tri-c.edu/> [facebook]<http://www.facebook.com/westtheatre#!/tricwesttheatre>