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Lunch and a play, makes for a a different lunch-hour Friday

Beowulf Alley Theatre Company, 11 S. Sixth Ave., has a great way for downtown workers to combine their lunch hour with some theater. It's called "Out To Lunch Theatre," a program of half-hour plays by local playwrights.

Patrons can bring their own lunch or order a brown bag lunch in advance online - www.beowulfalley.org/ . Cost is $6 for the play alone, $12 for the play, a veggie sandwich, chips and a drink, or $13 for a chicken sandwich, chips and a drink.

There is a performance today (Sept. 23) at 12:15 p.m. and another at the same time next Friday (Sept. 30).

The play is titled "Hang Down Your Head, Doris Dooley" and is based on one of Out To Lunch Theatre's earlier productions, "Waiting for Norma," written by David Sewell. Set in Casey's Watering Hole, a place on the way to somewhere else, Virge the bar keep and crazy Sadie serve as a backdrop for the various and sundry characters drifting in and out of the hole, serving up sunflower seeds and the spirit of the moment.

Tucson Weekly | Best Of Tucson® 2011 | Arts & Culture | Best Place to See Original Plays:

Best Place to See Original Plays

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Where can you see exciting new plays being produced around these parts? Almost anywhere, it turns out, because Tucson's theaters produce an extraordinary number of new works, often by local writers. This year saw The Rogue's The Decameron by Patrick Baliani, and Ten Chimneys by Jeffrey Hatcher at Arizona Theatre Company. Beowulf Alley Theatre Company had Fronting the Order by Warren G. Bodow and Head: The Musical by Kevin Fry, in addition to their annual Page on the Stage Festival. Winding Road Theater Ensemble produced Toni Press-Coffman's Armor, and Live Theatre Workshop's Etcetera series presented Christopher Johnson's The Eating Disorder Talent Show, andHigh Crimes, a musical by Damian Lemar Hudson. Borderlands Theater had two premieres: Kara Hartzler's No Roosters in the Desertand Martin Zimmerman's White Tie Ball—as well as the annual update of A Tucson Pastorella. Add to that the locally written escapades at the Gaslight Theatre, and the very first Tucson Fringe Theater Festival, and you have a theater community that truly deserves commendation.

'Rough Crossing' director Sewell:

5 QUESTIONS WITH …

'Rough Crossing' director Sewell

Kathleen Allen Arizona Daily Star | Posted: Friday, September 9, 2011

When it comes to Tom Stoppard, it's tough to go wrong.

Which may be why Beowulf Alley Theatre is opening its season with Stoppard's comedy "Rough Crossing."

We put five questions about the play to director Dave Sewell.

Read more: http://azstarnet.com/entertainment/arts-and-theatre/article_d8650193-f711-561d-adc5-bf42947f2395.html#ixzz1XS2DhM58

From left, Richard Chaney, Matt Brown, David Swisher and Brian Scott Hale - button-pushing characters in Beowulf Alley Theatre's production of Tom Stoppard's "Rough Crossing."

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