tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-343658832024-03-19T03:56:05.172-07:00Beowulf Alley Theatre11 South Sixth Ave
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<a href="http://www.beowulfalley.org">Home Page</a>TucsonStage.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09458564035576045395noreply@blogger.comBlogger464125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34365883.post-3918701685168331402013-04-04T06:57:00.001-07:002013-04-04T06:57:41.969-07:00Beowulf's 'Almost Maine; sweet as can be<a href="http://azstarnet.com/entertainment/arts-and-theatre/beowulf-s-almost-maine-sweet-as-can-be/article_eacd8fd3-a024-5f8f-a956-e82c2bb038c7.html">Beowulf's 'Almost Maine; sweet as can be</a><br />
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Michael Fenlason is not what he seems.</div>
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The artistic director of Beowulf Alley Theatre appears to be quiet, a bit shy, reticent.</div>
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Then he goes and writes something like his adaptation of Aristophanes' "Lysistrata" and blows those assumptions right out the stage doors.</div>
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Now granted, "Lysistrata" is a comedy. Farcical, even. But we doubt ol' Aristophanes would recognize this irreverent, anachronistic, over-the-top silly rendition of the thousands-year-old play.</div>
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But he might get a kick out of it. We sure did.</div>
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How could you not? The women decide to withhold sex but continue to tease - the tension will build and the men will agree to end the war is the reasoning.</div>
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Director Nicole Scott placed the play in ancient Greece (or maybe Fenlason did that). The women are in flowing togas, but throw them aside to reveal Frederick's of Hollywood-esque undergarments used to make the no-sex rule so much harder on men.</div>
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<span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Lucille Petty and Josh Parra in Beowulf Alley Theatre's adaptation of Aristophanes' "Lysistrata." The over-the-top silly rendition of the thousands-year-old play isn't richly nuanced, but it's plenty naughty ... and nice.</span></div>
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TucsonStage.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09458564035576045395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34365883.post-20119530943229208502013-02-25T17:03:00.000-08:002013-02-25T17:04:00.238-08:00"PAVILION" BELIEVES IN DO-OVERS<div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>By Chuck Graham, TucsonStage.com<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjNh5znL8rianQND_-Uf7iC5L4soNNs5B10hM0yh569ddCGKlyBnzLghEUufSYo5zuY-L9-f0uIZdNiyg-hKMtRIKLTSXjKBpmwsI7gP2pcdyJw6WY0nb0bhRbhXHq8zv5u0DSFw/s1600/image001-740239.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjNh5znL8rianQND_-Uf7iC5L4soNNs5B10hM0yh569ddCGKlyBnzLghEUufSYo5zuY-L9-f0uIZdNiyg-hKMtRIKLTSXjKBpmwsI7gP2pcdyJw6WY0nb0bhRbhXHq8zv5u0DSFw/s320/image001-740239.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5849061012468289778" /></a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Playwright and TV writer Craig Wright (“Lost,” “Six Feet Under”) almost gets the magic going in his play “The Pavilion,” first produced in 2000 and still popular in America’s regional theaters.<br>Beowulf Alley Theatre gives its production a good tumble with its three-member cast of Lisa Mae Roether, Michael “Miko” Gifford and Martie van der Voort.<br>The set-up has Peter (Gifford) a financially successful psychologist meeting up again with less successful Kari (Roether) at their 20-year high school reunion. Once they were the cutest couple in their senior class.<br>Then Kari became pregnant. Peter dumped her and went off to college. Kari ended her pregnancy, married a local golf pro and has been living her own life of quiet desperation.<br>Meanwhile the torch for Kari has been smoldering in Peter’s heart, while guilt eats away at his moral fiber in defiance of his professional distance from real life. Peter also writes folk songs, so…there you go.<br>Wright the playwright, and onetime Minneapolis ministerial student, is not concerned with whether or not Peter and Kari get back together. The dilemma of that mismatched couple is just the excuse for all of us to consider our place in the universe.<br>After all, whether you believe in parallel worlds or not, each of us already lives at the center our own personal universe.<br>Ever wonder what happened to the one who broke your heart and got away? Of course you have. Who hasn’t?<br>In your own personal universe, you get to decide what happened. Are these imagined events any less real than our memories? Are the kisses in your dreams any less substantial than the remembered kisses in your past?<br>In “Pavilion” the actor most responsible for stirring these philosophical thoughts is Martie van der Voort in the role of Narrator. But she also plays about 30 other characters, many of them flashing faces in the crowd at this reunion.<br>Many familiar to all of us. There’s the quiet girl who always seemed to be watching you from the sidelines; the busybody continually groping for intimate details of other people’s lives. That sort of thing.<br>As director, Whitney Morton has chosen to deliberately treat all these characters van der Voort plays as a blur of passing ships. The way you’d remember them through a hangover the morning after your 20th anniversary reunion dinner and dance<br>Without using any props or costume changes, and minimal body language, van der Voort says the lines of each passing personality. Some are only a few words, such as a gasping acknowledgement of some other unseen class member’s story.<br>Others are a little more developed, but we in the audience are left to sort them out on our own – while also pondering the what-might-have-beens in the unsatisfied longing<span class=apple-tab-span> </span> of Peter and Kari.<br>Yes, there is life after high school. Quite a bit of it for most folks. But are there any second chances, as Peter asks Kari?<br>Of course there aren’t, really. We are all prisoners of our past. Even when we break free, it is the past that determines which direction we’ll run to reach freedom.<br>So we watch through the second act as Roether and Gifford warm to their task, creating a poignant chemistry between Kari and Peter.<br>Their acting is terrific, underlining the unkindest truth: if you don’t believe in the future, there’s no place to even have a second chance.<br>“The Pavilion” continues through March 3 with performances at 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 3 p.m. Sundays, at Beowulf Alley Theatre, 11 S. Sixth Ave.<br></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#232323'>Tickets are $20, $18 for seniors, military and teachers, $8 for students. For details and reservations, 520-882-0555, www.beowulfalley.org</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><br><br><br><br></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div>TucsonStage.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09458564035576045395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34365883.post-23292418753302318522013-02-21T04:19:00.001-08:002013-02-21T04:20:10.680-08:00'Pavilion' a simple, sweet productionby <a href="http://azstarnet.com/search/?l=50&sd=desc&s=start_time&f=html&byline=Kathleen%20Allen%20Arizona%20Daily%20Star" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #417ba7; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial;">Kathleen Allen Arizona Daily Star</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Martie Van Der Voort, left, is Narrator, and Michael "Miko" Gifford and Lisa Mae Roether are high school sweethearts at their 20th reunion in Beowulf Alley Theatre's "The Pavilion."</span>TucsonStage.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09458564035576045395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34365883.post-77264635140722984862012-11-29T08:08:00.001-08:002012-11-29T08:08:45.281-08:00Beowulf play puts queen in fictional love triangle<a href="http://azstarnet.com/entertainment/arts-and-theatre/beowulf-play-puts-queen-in-fictional-love-triangle/article_a0741b92-9afd-5899-ae7a-6923a2de9f52.html">Beowulf play puts queen in fictional love triangle</a>: <br />
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<div class="asset-main"><div class="entry-content"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;">Marie Antoinette's life wasn't an easy one. The queen of France was pretty much hated by the French people, had a meddling mother, was often blamed for the French Revolution, and met up with the guillotine in 1793.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;">Heck, who'd blame her if she became embroiled in a love triangle?</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;">It's a scenario that playwright Joel Gross has imagined in "Marie Antoinette: The Color of Flesh," which Beowulf Alley Theatre opens Friday.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"><img src="http://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/azstarnet.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/7/0f/70ff45b2-11b9-5398-9daa-23d2154fd194/50b69ca20feb4.preview-620.jpg" /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;">Read the entire preview here: <a href="http://azstarnet.com/entertainment/arts-and-theatre/beowulf-play-puts-queen-in-fictional-love-triangle/article_a0741b92-9afd-5899-ae7a-6923a2de9f52.html" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;">Beowulf play puts queen in fictional love triangle</a></div></div></div></div>TucsonStage.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09458564035576045395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34365883.post-57247086748732286322012-11-11T12:50:00.001-08:002012-11-11T12:58:28.986-08:00"GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS" HAS GUSTO<div class="WordSection1">
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">There’s still plenty of meat on the bones of this 1983 play by David Mamet, given a driven production by Susan Arnold at the downtown Beowulf Alley Theatre.</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">As director she is especially successful at getting the erratic Mamet-speak rhythms down so they sound like the actual conversation of men drowning in their own stress.</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">Particularly good is the scene where con artist/salesman Dave Moss (Michael Fenlason) sucks his co-worker into being an unwilling co-conspirator who will steal the valued list of customer leads from the office safe.</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">Bill Epstein as the once-sensational but now desperate salesman Shelly “The Machine” Levene sets the right tone in his opening confrontation with John the office manager (Michael “Miko” Gifford). </span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">Add to them the office smoothie Richard Roma (Clark Ray), a couple of other empty-souled salesmen played by Tony Caprile and Jim Ambrosek and we know exactly where we are -- swimming with the piranhas in a shark tank.</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">This is definitely not a country for old men, and nobody knows that better than Shelly. He gets our sympathy as we watch the oily Roma now at the top of his game edging closer to that slippery slope himself.</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">Strong enough to provide the counterpoint of lawful order is scowling Mark Klugheit as Baylen the detective questioning the entire sales staff after those hot leads actually are stolen.</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">There isn’t really a plot to “Glengarry Glen Ross” so much as there are observations on the wolfpack mentality of men working in offices. Quite often, as in the case of these six guys, they are brought together purely by coincidence.</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">At this level of commerce, a salesman’s loyalty to his product is no deeper than his commission -- no commission, no loyalty. Gifford gives an excellent reading of this “loyalty” in his performance.</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">If you haven’t been to Beowulf Alley in awhile, now is the time to return. “Glengarry Glen Ross” is the strongest production this company has staged in more than a year.</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">Performances continue through Nov. 18 at Beowulf Alley Theatre, 11 S. Sixth Ave., 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 2:30 p.m. Sundays. Tickets are $20 general admission, $18 seniors, teachers and military, $8 students. For details and reservations, 520-882-0555, or visit www.beowulfalley.org</span></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: whitesmoke; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">Bill Epstein, left, captures Levene's deep fear of failure and Clark Ryan as smooth-talking Roma oozes oily charm in Beowulf Alley's production of "Glengarry Glen Ross." The David Mamet play speaks to today just as it did to the '80s.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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TucsonStage.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09458564035576045395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34365883.post-85587893170756868462012-11-08T07:18:00.001-08:002012-11-08T07:18:15.004-08:00Auditions for a Late Night Production <div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The Next Theatre at Beowulf Alley announces</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Auditions for a Late Night Production of </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:6.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>It’s Saturday Night and No One is Listening</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>By</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Michael Fenlason and Skads Muskie</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The Next Theatre at Beowulf Alley announces auditions for a late night theatre production of Fenlason and Muskie’s It’s Saturday Night and No One is Listening. Auditions are November 17<sup>th</sup> from 4pm to 6pm at Beowulf Alley Theatre Company, 11 S 6<sup>th</sup> Ave in downtown Tucson. For more information, please contact Michael Fenlason at 520.882.0555 or at <a href="mailto:theatre@beowulfalley.org">theatre@beowulfalley.org</a> for an appointment.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>It’s Saturday Night and No One is Listening tells the musical story of six young people and their attendant neurosis, dealing with city life, creepy people and art. Cell phone songs, hip hop, splash mob music and dance prevail in this alternative insane musical mashup.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Auditioners should call or email for audition times. The cast includes four women and two men between the ages of 20 and 30. Please come prepared with an a capella musical number. Dancers welcome. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div>TucsonStage.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09458564035576045395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34365883.post-57657494281055995202012-11-08T07:16:00.001-08:002012-11-08T07:16:35.640-08:00'Glengarry' retains power of desperation<a href="http://azstarnet.com/entertainment/arts-and-theatre/glengarry-retains-power-of-desperation/article_76e5b4eb-a591-5ca6-a456-fafe77f8b253.html">'Glengarry' retains power of desperation</a>: <br />
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</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;">This production, directed with a swiftness and understanding by Susan Arnold, firmly puts the struggling Beowulf back on the road to success after a few years of artistic decline.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;">Clark Andreas Ray's smooth-talking Romo was so slick you wanted to bathe after spending time with him. His scene with a weak-spined customer (a finely cast Jim Ambrosek) gave us a glimpse into the desperation-knows-no-ethics mind-set.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;">Bill Epstein captured the musicality of Mamet's language, and the character's deep fear of failure. He and Michael "Miko" Gifford as the unfeeling and emotionally removed boss Tony set the tone of anger and heartlessness that is pervasive throughout the 90-minute play.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;">Michael Fenlason's take as the manipulative Moss, a salesman anxious to have someone steal the leads and sell them to a competitor, hit all the right notes.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;">Filling out the cast and their characters were Tony Caprile as Aaronow, a salesman with little confidence and a world-weary soul, and Mark Klugheit in a small part as a no-nonsense detective trying to solve the crime of the office break-in.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;">Read the entire review here: <a href="http://azstarnet.com/entertainment/arts-and-theatre/glengarry-retains-power-of-desperation/article_76e5b4eb-a591-5ca6-a456-fafe77f8b253.html" style="background-color: transparent;">http://azstarnet.com/entertainment/arts-and-theatre/glengarry-retains-power-of-desperation/article_76e5b4eb-a591-5ca6-a456-fafe77f8b253.html</a></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"><br />
</div>TucsonStage.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09458564035576045395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34365883.post-6200073336223063032012-10-30T06:30:00.001-07:002012-10-30T06:30:07.509-07:00Lunchtime production - Hungry Hills Estates<div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Beowulf Alley Theatre Company presents</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>a <strong><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>lunchtime</span></strong> production of </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;min-height:14px;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p align=center style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal'><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Hungry Hills Estates</span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align=center style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>By</span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Jimmy Dees</span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Beowulf Alley Theatre Company presents a lunch-time compliement to their evening show, Jimmy Dees' comedy Hungry Hill Estates, November 2nd, 3rd, 9th, 10th, 16th and 17th at 12:15 PM. at Beowulf Alley Theatre, 11 S 6th Ave in downtown Tucson. Tickets are $6 for adults, $4 for groups of twenty or more. With lunch (sandwich, chips and drink), tickets are $14. Please order one day in advance for lunch theatre tickets. </span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Two hard luck real estate salesman scramble to survive. Will their latest client be their salvation or their last? Do the lads have one more story to tell? Written by Jimmy Dees and directed by Jim Ambrosek, this delightful romp features veteran Tucson performers Bryan Blue, Adrian Gomez, and Robin Carson. Showtimes are at 12:15 PM on November 2nd, 3rd, 9th, 10th, 16th and 17th. Show will run approximately 25 minutes; order ahead for a sandwich or pizza. </span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Tickets are available at the door. For advanced tickets, please call <a href="tel:520-882-0555" target="_blank">520-882-0555</a> or email <a href="javascript:_e(%7b%7d,%20'cvml',%20'theatre@beowulfalley.org');" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>theatre@beowulfalley.org</span></a>.</span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>This play is directed by Jim Ambrosek and features Bryan Blue, Adrian Gomez and Robin Carson. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div>TucsonStage.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09458564035576045395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34365883.post-27755079596615523142012-10-26T11:06:00.001-07:002012-10-26T11:06:50.567-07:00READING OF DUSTIN LANCE BLACK’S NEW PLAY “8”<div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span class=s7><b>BEOWULF ALLEY THEATRE COMPANYANNOUNCES READING OF DUSTIN LANCE BLACK'S NEW PLAY </b></span><span class=s8><b><i>"8"</i></b></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=s11 style='mso-margin-top-alt:3.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:9.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span class=s10><i>Beowulf Alley Theatre Company Joins Nationwide Productions of Landmark Marriage Equality Play by Academy Award-Winning Screenwriter of Milk & J. Edgar</i></span><span class=apple-style-span> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=s12 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469);-webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);-webkit-text-size-adjust: none'><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'> </span></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=s12 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469);-webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);-webkit-text-size-adjust: none'><span class=s2><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Beowulf Alley Theatre Company, with license from the American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER) and Broadway Impact, is proud to announce a one-night-only reading of </span></span><span class=s14><i><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>"8,"</span></i></span><span class=s2><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'> a play chronicling the historic trial in the federal constitutional challenge to California's Proposition 8, written by Academy Award-winning screenwriter and AFER Founding Board Member Dustin Lance Black.</span></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=s12 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469);-webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);-webkit-text-size-adjust: none'><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'> </span></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=s12 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469);-webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);-webkit-text-size-adjust: none'><span class=s14><i><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>"8</span></i></span><span class=s2><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>" is an unprecedented account of the Federal District Court trial in </span></span><span class=s14><i><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Perry v. Schwarzenegger</span></i></span><span class=s2><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'> (now</span></span><span class=s14><i><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'> Perry v. Brown</span></i></span><span class=s2><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>), the case filed by AFER to overturn Proposition 8, which stripped gay and lesbian Californians of the fundamental freedom to marry.</span></span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><br><br><span class=s2>Black, who penned the Academy Award-winning feature film </span><span class=s14><i>Milk </i></span><span class=s2>and the film </span><span class=s14><i>J. Edgar</i></span><span class=s2>, based </span><span class=s14><i>"8"</i></span><span class=s2> on the actual words of the trial transcripts, first-hand observations of the courtroom drama and interviews with the plaintiffs and their families. </span></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=s12 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469);-webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);-webkit-text-size-adjust: none'><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'> </span></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=s12 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469);-webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);-webkit-text-size-adjust: none'><span class=s13><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>The performance of "8" is Thursday, November 8</span></b></span><span class=s15><b><sup><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>th</span></sup></b></span><span class=s13><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'> at 7:30PM. Tickets are $20 and available at <a href="http://beowulfalley.org">beowulfalley.org</a>. We do recommend purchasing tickets in advance as this one-night only presentation will likely sell out. Interpreters for the deaf will be provided as well, please specify in your reservation if you need special seating for interpretation services. A talk-back with members of the community and cast will follow the reading. </span></b></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=s12 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469);-webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);-webkit-text-size-adjust: none'><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'> </span></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=s12 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469);-webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);-webkit-text-size-adjust: none'><span class=s13><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>This staged reading is directed by Eugenia Woods.</span></b></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=s12 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469);-webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);-webkit-text-size-adjust: none'><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'> </span></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=s12 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469);-webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);-webkit-text-size-adjust: none'><span class=s14><i><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>"8"</span></i></span><span class=s2><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'> had its much-heralded Broadway world premiere on September 19, 2011, at the sold-out Eugene O'Neill Theatre in New York City. The production brought in over $1 million to support AFER's efforts to achieve full federal marriage equality. </span></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=s12 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469);-webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);-webkit-text-size-adjust: none'><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'> </span></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=s12 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469);-webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);-webkit-text-size-adjust: none'><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'> </span></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=s12 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469);-webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);-webkit-text-size-adjust: none'><span class=s14><i><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>"8"</span></i></span><span class=s2><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'> had its West Coast premiere reading at the Wilshire EbellTheatre on Saturday, March 3, 2012, in Los Angeles. The West Coast premiere reading of </span></span><span class=s14><i><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>"8"</span></i></span><span class=s2><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'> featured an all-star cast led by Golden Globe Award-winner and Academy and Emmy Award-nominee Brad Pitt as United States District Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker; and Academy and Golden Globe Award-winner and Emmy Award-nominee George Clooney and Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winner Martin Sheen as Plaintiffs' lead co-counsel David Boies and Theodore B. Olson. The benefit reading was directed by AFER Founding Board Member Rob Reiner, and raised more than $2 million for the fight to secure full federal marriage equality.</span></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=s12 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469);-webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);-webkit-text-size-adjust: none'><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'> </span></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=s12 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469);-webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);-webkit-text-size-adjust: none'><span class=s2><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>"People need to witness what happened in the Proposition 8 trial, if for no other reason than to see inequality and discrimination unequivocally rejected in a court of law where truth and facts matter," said AFER Founding Board Member Dustin Lance Black. "The goal of </span></span><span class=s14><i><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>'8'</span></i></span><span class=s2><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'> is to show the world that marriage equality is a basic constitutional right. The facts are on our side and truth always finds the light. AFER and Broadway Impact are doing all we can to help speed that process along." </span></span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><br><br><span class=s2>Throughout 2012, AFER and Broadway Impact are licensing</span><span class=s14><i>"8"</i></span><span class=s2> for free to colleges and community theatres nationwide in order to spur action, dialogue and understanding. Most productions will be followed by a talkback where cast and audience members can discuss the issues presented in the </span><span class=s14><i>Perry v. Schwarzenegger</i></span><span class=s2> trial. </span></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=s12 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469);-webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);-webkit-text-size-adjust: none'><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'> </span></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=s12 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469);-webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);-webkit-text-size-adjust: none'><span class=s13><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>"We felt this was a moral imperative. When Miko Gifford told me about the play and suggested we become involved, I couldn't say yes fast enough. AFER and Broadway Impact are doing important work. It's an honor and privilege to help. This is an important issue of civil and human rights"</span></b></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=s12 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469);-webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);-webkit-text-size-adjust: none'><span class=s13><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>--Michael Fenlason, Artistic Director</span></b></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=s12 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469);-webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);-webkit-text-size-adjust: none'><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'> </span></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=s12 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469);-webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);-webkit-text-size-adjust: none'><span class=s2><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>The story for </span></span><span class=s14><i><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>"8"</span></i></span><span class=s2><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'> is framed by the trial's historic closing arguments in June 2010, and features the best arguments and testimony from both sides. Scenes include flashbacks to some of the more jaw-dropping moments of trial, such as the admission by the Proposition 8 supporters' star witness, DavidBlankenhorn, that "we would be more American on the day we permitted same-sex marriage than we were on the day before."</span></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=s12 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469);-webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);-webkit-text-size-adjust: none'><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'> </span></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=s12 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469);-webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);-webkit-text-size-adjust: none'><span class=s2><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>On February 7, 2012, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a landmark decision upholding the historic August 2010 ruling of the Federal District Court that found Proposition 8 </span></span><span class=s16><u><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>unconstitutional</span></u></span><span class=s2><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>. The Ninth Circuit concluded:</span></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=s12 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469);-webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);-webkit-text-size-adjust: none'><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'> </span></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=s17 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:27.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469);-webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);-webkit-text-size-adjust: none'><span class=s2><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>"Proposition 8 serves no purpose, and has no effect, other than to lessen the status and human dignity of gays and lesbians in California, and to officially reclassify their relationships and families as inferior to those of opposite-sex couples. The Constitution simply does not allow for laws of this sort."</span></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=s12 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469);-webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);-webkit-text-size-adjust: none'><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'> </span></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=s12 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469);-webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);-webkit-text-size-adjust: none'><span class=s2><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>To purchase tickets, </span></span><span class=s13><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>please go to <a href="http://beowulfalley.org">beowulfalley.org</a> and clickipurchase tickets at the top of the page. 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<div style="color: #222222; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 1.12em; margin-top: 1.12em; padding: 0px;">It's a double-Hedda!</div><div style="color: #222222; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 1.12em; margin-top: 1.12em; padding: 0px;">Two <i>Heddas</i> are running in repertory at Beowulf Alley Theatre as the first offerings of the season: Henrik Ibsen's classic <i>Hedda Gabler</i>, and Jeff Whitty's <i>The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler</i>, a contemporary riff on the iconic character.</div><div style="color: #222222; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 1.12em; margin-top: 1.12em; padding: 0px;">The conjunction of the two shows is a clever idea, ...</div><div style="color: #222222; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 1.12em; margin-top: 1.12em; padding: 0px;">Read the entire review here: <a href="http://www.tucsonweekly.com/tucson/gabler-vs-gabler/Content?oid=3525683" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;">Gabler vs. Gabler | Review | Tucson Weekly</a></div><div style="color: #222222; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 1.12em; margin-top: 1.12em; padding: 0px;"><img alt="Bree Boyd-Martin and China Young in The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler." src="http://www.tucsonweekly.com/imager/bree-boyd-martin-and-china-young-in-the-further-adventures-of-hedda-g/b/original/3525684/6acc/review2.jpg" /> </div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 1.12em; margin-top: 1.12em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="color: #444444;">Bree Boyd-Martin and China Young in The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler.</span></span> </div>TucsonStage.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09458564035576045395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34365883.post-83514061979798818892012-08-11T04:19:00.001-07:002012-08-11T04:20:44.664-07:00Beowulf whodunit mixes sweet and strange | Beowulf Alley Theatre<a href="http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/081012_body_in_the_bath/beowulf-whodunit-mixes-sweet-and-strange/"><span class="GingerNoCheckStart"></span><span class="GingerNoCheckStart"></span>Beowulf whodunit mixes sweet and strange | Beowulf Alley Theatre</a>: <br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Fans of Lord Peter Wimsey, the 1920’s version of Sherlock Holmes, have reason to rejoice in </span><a href="http://www.beowulfalley.org/" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;" target="_blank">Beowulf Alley’s</a><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> latest production, “The Body In The Bath.” Turning Dorothy Sayer’s 1923 novel, “Whose Body?” which introduced Wimsey, into a play will no doubt delight those aficionados.</span></div>
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THEATER IS MOUNTING TUCSON WRITER'S ADAPTATION OF DOROTHY SAYERS MYSTERY</h6>
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<span class="pubdate" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-transform: none;">August 09, 2012 12:00 am</span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-transform: none;"> • </span><span class="byline" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-transform: none;"><a href="http://azstarnet.com/search/?l=50&sd=desc&s=start_time&f=html&byline=Kathleen%20Allen%20Kallen%40azstarnet.com" style="border: 0px; color: #417ba7; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Kathleen Allen Kallen@azstarnet.com</a></span></h6>
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Imagine this: You glide into your bathroom to brush your teeth. Instead, you discover a body in your bath. A naked one, wearing nothing but pince-nez, those nose-pinching glasses popular in the 19th century.</div>
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It's the mystery that grips Lord Peter Wimsey in Dorothy L. Sayers' first detective novel, "Whose Body?"</div>
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Tucson playwright/actress Joan O'Dwyer has given that novel its first adaptation, switching the title to "The Body in the Bath." It's on stage now at Beowulf Alley Theatre.</div>
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READ THE ENTIRE PREVIEW HERE: <a href="http://azstarnet.com/entertainment/attractions/all-wrung-out-over-the-body-in-bath/article_8da09e7b-5014-51db-81a3-6288d74768bb.html" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;">All wrung out over the body in bath</a></div>
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<span class="GingerNoCheckEnd"></span>TucsonStage.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09458564035576045395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34365883.post-25180572122276860032012-07-27T13:47:00.001-07:002012-07-27T13:47:41.986-07:00Play 'Hope' ponders ‘How bad is bad?’ | Beowulf Alley Theatre Company<a href="http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/072612_hope_review/play-hope-ponders-how-bad-bad/">Play 'Hope' ponders ‘How bad is bad?’ | Beowulf Alley Theatre Company</a>: <br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 22pt; line-height: 115%;">Play 'Hope' ponders ‘How bad is bad?’<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;">Despite political jabs, real story is about love<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;">Posted Jul 26, 2012, 8:13 am<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">By: Dave Irwin, TucsonSentinel.com<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“Hope,” the latest in Beowulf Alley Theatre Company’s summer series, is ostensibly about a man considering becoming his party’s nominee for Congress. Locked in a hotel room, he reviews his life not to see if he is good enough for national leadership, but to assure the party and himself that he’s not irredeemably bad. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Director Michael Fenlason keeps the pace as fast as can be allowed in a narrative that constantly moves back and forth in time. He uses side entrances and lighting to suggest Joe’s dream states and introduce the skeletons rattling around inside his mind.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">… “Hope” is worth the effort required to get to the theatre’s downtown location during the construction and experience it for oneself during its brief run.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Michael Gifford and Chezale Rodriquez in 'Hope.'</span></span></div><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal">Jul 11, 2012, 5:51 pm<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dave Irwin<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">TucsonSentinel.com<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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A Eugene O'Neill play is never light fare, but it is almost always illuminating.</div>
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And Beowulf Alley Theatre is turning on the O'Neill road less taken over the next few weeks with its staging of "Exorcism."</div>
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The one-act, one of O'Neill's first plays, was discovered just last year, more than 90 years after the playwright penned it.</div>
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<span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">From left, David Swisher, Evan Engle, Michael Fenlason and Ken Beider are in the cast of Beowulf Alley's "Exorcism." The play was discovered just last year.</span></div>
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Maybe he wanted it lost - it's the story of his attempted suicide, and, like most of O'Neill's plays, it puts him and his family in a questionable light.</div>
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The play was produced in 1920, but shortly after that O'Neill was said to have destroyed all copies. Ostensibly, he did it to please his father.</div>
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It isn't quintessential O'Neill - look to "The Iceman Cometh" and "Long Day's Journey Into Night" for that. But it is O'Neill, for goodness sake. A glimpse of his dark and stirring brilliance before it was in full bloom surely marks "Exorcism."</div>
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Performances are 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays through July 13, with one matinee at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Beowulf Alley Theatre, 11 S. Sixth Ave. Tickets are $15, with discounts available.</div>
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</div>TucsonStage.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09458564035576045395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34365883.post-15834072572942777942012-06-28T11:39:00.001-07:002012-06-28T11:39:46.487-07:00Beowulf Alley Theatre presents Eugene O'Neill's Lost Play, "Exorcism"<div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Beowulf Alley Theatre Company</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Presents</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Eugene O’Neill’s Lost Play</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:28.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Exorcism</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:28.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Beowulf Alley Theatre presents <i>Exorcism</i> by Eugene O’Neill Friday and Saturday, July 6<sup>th</sup>, 7<sup>th</sup> , 13<sup>th</sup> and 14<sup>th</sup> at 7:30 PM and Sunday July 8<sup>th</sup> at 2:30 PM at Beowulf Alley Theatre, 11 S. 6<sup>th</sup> Avenue in downtown Tucson. Tickets are $15. $12 for seniors, military and teachers. Our student price is only $8.</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Recently rediscovered, this autobiographical one-act was buried by O’Neill. The play was performed by the Provincetown Players in 1920 for about two weeks and then quickly withdrawn. It is speculated that O’Neill was too uncomfortable with such an honest portrait of himself and his father. Exorcism is about a troubled young man and his difficult relationship with his family. It is something of a palimpsest for Long Days Journey Into Night, as the main character Ned is reminiscent to Jamie Tyrone.</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Starring Evan Engle as Ned, Ken Bieder as Jimmy, David Swisher as Major, Mark Klugheit as Malloy and Michael Fenlason as Nordstrom.</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>This production will run Friday and Saturday, July 6th, 7th, 13th, 14th at 7:30PM and Sunday July 8th at 2:30PM.</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Tickets run $8-$15 and can be purchased online, over the phone or at the door. Reservations and purchases can be made are 520-885-0555</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>For more information, contact Michael Fenlason at Beowulf Alley Theatre, <a href="mailto:theatre@beowulfalley.org"><span style='color:purple'>theatre@beowulfalley.org</span></a>, <a href="tel:520%20882%200555">520 882 0555</a>.</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'> </span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div>TucsonStage.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09458564035576045395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34365883.post-9546449310239909582012-06-28T08:44:00.001-07:002012-06-28T08:44:40.569-07:00'The Next Theatre' Summer Debuts<div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>What is 'The Next Theatre'?</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The Next Theatre is the new, experimental subgroup of Beowulf Alley Theatre looking to explore exciting and different ways to present performance. We will be playing with theatre 'traditions' and challenging audiences idea of what shows are and what they can do. We look to inspire conversation, provoke emotions and turn the typical theatre-going experience on it's head. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>This Summer Debut season brings us an experimental mash-up of film and live performance with <strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Joan is Burning. </span></strong>Followed by a look to the past with a recently found Eugene O'Neill one-act, <strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Exorcism. </span></strong>Next we present <strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Hope</span></strong> by Jem Street, an arizonan playwrite, which looks into what it takes to go into politics. In closing, we present an adaption by Joan O'Dwyer, <strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The Body and the Bath.</span></strong> A Lord Peter Whimsy murder mystery that's sure to please!</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>For more information about getting involved with The Next Theatre, please fee free to email us at <a href="mailto:theatre@beowulfalley.org"><span style='color:windowtext'>theatre@beowulfalley.org</span></a> or give us a call at 520-885-0555. </span> <img border=0 width=11 id="_x0000_i1033" src="http://beowulfalley.pmailus.com/pmailimages/spacer.gif"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 width=11 height=11 id="_x0000_i1034" src="http://beowulfalley.pmailus.com/pmailimages/template/roundy/bottom.left.gif"> <img border=0 height=11 id="_x0000_i1035" src="http://beowulfalley.pmailus.com/pmailimages/spacer.gif"> <img border=0 width=11 height=11 id="_x0000_i1036" src="http://beowulfalley.pmailus.com/pmailimages/template/roundy/bottom.right.gif"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <img border=0 width=11 height=11 id="_x0000_i1037" src="http://beowulfalley.pmailus.com/pmailimages/template/roundy/top.left.gif"> <img border=0 height=11 id="_x0000_i1038" src="http://beowulfalley.pmailus.com/pmailimages/spacer.gif"> <img border=0 width=11 height=11 id="_x0000_i1039" src="http://beowulfalley.pmailus.com/pmailimages/template/roundy/top.right.gif"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><img border=0 width=11 id="_x0000_i1040" src="http://beowulfalley.pmailus.com/pmailimages/spacer.gif"> <strong><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>SPECIAL ENCORE PERFORMANCE OF 'JOAN IS BURNING'</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p align=center style='text-align:center'><strong><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>7:30pm on Sunday, July 1st.</span></strong><br><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>You can make reservations for this special show by calling the box office, 520-885-0555. Pay-What-You-Will pricing is good at the door only. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Due to popular demand, we have added a special Sunday evening performance of Joan is Burning. We are making it even easier to see it as well, with a special Pay-What-You-Will pricing, a portion of the proceeds will go to Planned Parenthood and enjoy the wonderful Tucson evening.</span></strong><br><br><br>Joan is Burning is a satirical comedy of the near future. In 2018 New Orleans, Joan works for a public relations firm and has created a program that can sell anyone anything. Her love life in shambles, her only healthy relationship is with her phone/computer, her employer an avaricious, unprincipled executive, Joan must decide what she ought to do with such a newfound power. All the while an anonymous protest for the rights of women shadows her. Will Joan join the fight?<br><br>A multi-cultural, multi-media presentation that includes extensive use of film, created by Josh Parra, and original music by Skads Muskie. Joan is Burning is part of The Next Theatre at Beowulf Alley’s mission to effect relevant, entertaining themes with new models of narrative presentation. Portions of the proceeds to this production will go to benefit Disappeared Women, a women’s health advocacy group.<br></span> <img border=0 width=11 id="_x0000_i1041" src="http://beowulfalley.pmailus.com/pmailimages/spacer.gif"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 width=11 height=11 id="_x0000_i1042" src="http://beowulfalley.pmailus.com/pmailimages/template/roundy/bottom.left.gif"> <img border=0 height=11 id="_x0000_i1043" src="http://beowulfalley.pmailus.com/pmailimages/spacer.gif"> <img border=0 width=11 height=11 id="_x0000_i1044" src="http://beowulfalley.pmailus.com/pmailimages/template/roundy/bottom.right.gif"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 width=11 height=11 id="_x0000_i1045" src="http://beowulfalley.pmailus.com/pmailimages/template/roundy/top.left.gif"> <img border=0 height=11 id="_x0000_i1046" src="http://beowulfalley.pmailus.com/pmailimages/spacer.gif"> <img border=0 width=11 height=11 id="_x0000_i1047" src="http://beowulfalley.pmailus.com/pmailimages/template/roundy/top.right.gif"><o:p></o:p></p><p><img border=0 width=11 id="_x0000_i1048" src="http://beowulfalley.pmailus.com/pmailimages/spacer.gif"> <strong><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>...Coming up Next!</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><strong><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>EXORCISM, A one-act by Eugene O’Neill. </span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Directed by Nicole Scott</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>Recently rediscovered, this autobiographical one-act was buried by O’Neill. The play was performed by the Provincetown Players in 1920 for about two weeks and then quickly withdrawn. It is speculated that O’Neill was too uncomfortable with such an honest portrait of himself and his father. Exorcism is about a troubled young man and his difficult relationship with his family. It is something of a palimpsest for Long Days Journey Into Night, as the main character Ned is reminiscent to Jamie Tyrone.<br><br>Starring Evan Engle as Ned, Ken Bieder as Jimmy, David Swisher as Major, Mark Klugheit as Malloy and Michael Fenlason as Nordstrom.<br><br>This production will run Friday and Saturday, July 6th, 7th, 13th, 14th at <strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>7:30PM</span></strong> and Sunday July 8th at <strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>2:30PM</span></strong>.<br><br>Tickets run $8-$15 and can be purchased <a href="http://beowulfalley.pmailus.com/pmailweb/ct?d=WRx5YgKDAAIAAAduAAZCtg" target="_blank"><span style='color:windowtext'>online</span></a>, over the phone or at the door. Reservations and purchases can be made are 520-885-0555<br></span> <img border=0 width=11 id="_x0000_i1049" src="http://beowulfalley.pmailus.com/pmailimages/spacer.gif"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 width=11 height=11 id="_x0000_i1050" src="http://beowulfalley.pmailus.com/pmailimages/template/roundy/bottom.left.gif"> <img border=0 height=11 id="_x0000_i1051" src="http://beowulfalley.pmailus.com/pmailimages/spacer.gif"> <img border=0 width=11 height=11 id="_x0000_i1052" src="http://beowulfalley.pmailus.com/pmailimages/template/roundy/bottom.right.gif"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 width=11 height=11 id="_x0000_i1053" src="http://beowulfalley.pmailus.com/pmailimages/template/roundy/top.left.gif"> <img border=0 height=11 id="_x0000_i1054" src="http://beowulfalley.pmailus.com/pmailimages/spacer.gif"> <img border=0 width=11 height=11 id="_x0000_i1055" src="http://beowulfalley.pmailus.com/pmailimages/template/roundy/top.right.gif"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right'><img border=0 width=11 id="_x0000_i1056" src="http://beowulfalley.pmailus.com/pmailimages/spacer.gif"> <strong><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Later this Summer!</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><strong><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Hope</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><strong><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>by Jem Street</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Directed by Michael Fenlason</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>Hope is a new play and part of her graces trilogy that includes <em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Faith</span></em> and <em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Love</span></em>. Street’s work meditates on American life in the first part of the new millennium with humor, candor and a sense of history. Hope is the story of Joe Chandler, a Tennessee businessman being courted to run for the U.S. House of Representatives. Chandler must look back over his life and determine if he has “been a good enough man to be a politician.” In flashback his history with romantic relationships, a stormy relationship with his racist father, and all that he has been must be seen through this ironic prism.<br><br>This is a full-length play and the performance dates are Friday and Saturday July <strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>20th, 21st, 27th,</span></strong> and <strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>28th</span></strong> at 7:30 PM and Sunday <strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>July 22nd</span></strong> at 2:30 PM.<br><br>Tickets are available <a href="http://beowulfalley.pmailus.com/pmailweb/ct?d=WRx5YgKDAAMAAAfSAAZCtg" target="_blank"><span style='color:windowtext'>online</span></a>, over the phone or at the door. Reservations and purchases can be made at 520-885-0555.<br></span> <img border=0 width=11 id="_x0000_i1057" src="http://beowulfalley.pmailus.com/pmailimages/spacer.gif"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 width=11 height=11 id="_x0000_i1058" src="http://beowulfalley.pmailus.com/pmailimages/template/roundy/bottom.left.gif"> <img border=0 height=11 id="_x0000_i1059" src="http://beowulfalley.pmailus.com/pmailimages/spacer.gif"> <img border=0 width=11 height=11 id="_x0000_i1060" src="http://beowulfalley.pmailus.com/pmailimages/template/roundy/bottom.right.gif"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 width=11 height=11 id="_x0000_i1061" src="http://beowulfalley.pmailus.com/pmailimages/template/roundy/top.left.gif"> <img border=0 height=11 id="_x0000_i1062" src="http://beowulfalley.pmailus.com/pmailimages/spacer.gif"> <img border=0 width=11 height=11 id="_x0000_i1063" src="http://beowulfalley.pmailus.com/pmailimages/template/roundy/top.right.gif"><o:p></o:p></p><p align=center style='text-align:center'><img border=0 width=11 id="_x0000_i1064" src="http://beowulfalley.pmailus.com/pmailimages/spacer.gif"> <strong><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Wrapping our Summer Debut is...</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><strong><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The Body in the Bath </span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>an adaption by Joan O’Dwyer</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>This play, adapted from Dorothy Sayers' first American printing of "Whose Body," takes place after World War I in England. Lord Peter is rich, intelligent, circumspect and genteel, but, dash it all, so very loveable. When he pairs up with Inspector Parker of Scotland Yard -- and is further aided by his trusty servant, Bunter -- the mystery of the naked body in the bath (wearing only pince nez, mind you!) is certain to be solved.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>This Lord Peter Whimsy adaption will run August 3-18th, Fridays & Saturdays at <strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>7:30pm</span></strong> and Sundays at <strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>2:30pm.</span></strong> <em><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Note: No Sunday Performance August 19th.</span></b></em></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <img border=0 width=11 id="_x0000_i1065" src="http://beowulfalley.pmailus.com/pmailimages/spacer.gif"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 width=11 height=11 id="_x0000_i1066" src="http://beowulfalley.pmailus.com/pmailimages/template/roundy/bottom.left.gif"> <img border=0 height=11 id="_x0000_i1067" src="http://beowulfalley.pmailus.com/pmailimages/spacer.gif"> <img border=0 width=11 height=11 id="_x0000_i1068" src="http://beowulfalley.pmailus.com/pmailimages/template/roundy/bottom.right.gif"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:3.75pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>About Beowulf Alley Theatre Company<br><br>Beowulf Alley Theatre Company is a 501(c)(3) organization committed to enriching the community and enhancing appreciation of the arts through the production of innovative, invigorating theatre and theatrical education with the highest standards for acting and production. Funding is provided through ticket sales and the generous support of individuals and businesses, with smaller support from granting agencies and foundations. Founded in 2001, the intimate, 95-seat theatre provides a facility that meets professional standards where performing artists, educators and technicians can present their skills. Beowulf Alley has received critical acclaim, including five Mac Awards and eleven MAC nominations, as well as recognition in the Tucson Weekly's "Best of..." Awards for acting, set design and new play presentations. The company has presented over 400 performances to Tucson audiences and provides performance and rehearsal space for rent by other organizations. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div>TucsonStage.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09458564035576045395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34365883.post-13021233665366400662012-06-21T19:17:00.001-07:002012-06-21T19:17:41.012-07:00Pondering Live Performance | Review | Tucson Weekly<a href="http://www.tucsonweekly.com/tucson/pondering-live-performance/Content?oid=3428399">Pondering Live Performance | Review | Tucson Weekly</a>: <br />
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<h1 class="headline headline-3428399" style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 32px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pondering Live Performance </h1><h2 class="subheadline" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1818; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Beowulf Alley Theatre mounts four summer shows as part of its new effort, The Next Theatre</h2><cite class="byline" style="background-color: white; color: #838689; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; line-height: 1em; margin: 7px 0px 0px;">by <a href="http://www.tucsonweekly.com/tucson/ArticleArchives?author=1327325" style="color: #335770;">Sherilyn Forrester</a></cite><cite class="byline" style="background-color: white; color: #838689; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; line-height: 1em; margin: 7px 0px 0px;"><br />
</cite><cite class="byline" style="background-color: white; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; line-height: 1em; margin: 7px 0px 0px;"><div style="color: #222222; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 1.12em; margin-top: 1.12em; padding: 0px;">What will the theater look like in the future? Will it continue to tell stories in the way it has for centuries? Or will it find new ways? And if so, what exactly might what's next look like?</div><div style="color: #222222; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 1.12em; margin-top: 1.12em; padding: 0px;">Michael Fenlason, the new artistic director of Beowulf Alley Theatre Company, is pondering these questions, and in response, he has established The Next Theatre as the Beowulf Alley's avenue to explore and experiment with new ways of theatrical storytelling.</div><div style="color: #222222; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 1.12em; margin-top: 1.12em; padding: 0px;">The subgroup of Beowulf Alley is actually a new version of what used to be its Late Night Theatre, which also operated with an experimental spirit. Fenlason was associated with Late Night, but now as artistic director of the entire organization, he has an opportunity to help develop The Next Theatre. This summer, the group is slated to present four shows.</div><div style="color: #222222; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 1.12em; margin-top: 1.12em; padding: 0px;">"The idea is to look at how live performance is going to change, and to try to reinvigorate the form by finding new ways of presenting and new ways of telling a story," Fenlason says.</div><div style="color: #222222; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 1.12em; margin-top: 1.12em; padding: 0px;">The first show is a multimedia, company-developed piece, <i>Joan Is Burning</i>.</div><div style="color: #222222; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 1.12em; margin-top: 1.12em; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="Kristen Islas in Joan Is Burning." src="http://www.tucsonweekly.com/imager/kristen-islas-in-joan-is-burning/b/original/3428400/3609/review2.jpg" /> </div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 1.12em; margin-top: 1.12em; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; text-align: left;">Kristen Islas in Joan Is Burning.</span> </div><div style="color: #222222; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 1.12em; margin-top: 1.12em; padding: 0px;">"I created the story, and some of the scenes, and then let the actors breathe through them," Fenlason says. "They have been free to make changes to make it work."</div><div style="color: #222222; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 1.12em; margin-top: 1.12em; padding: 0px;">Crucial to the development process has been the work and input of filmmaker Josh Parra. "He's a fantastic creative mind and brings a nice satirical edge."</div><div style="color: #222222; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 1.12em; margin-top: 1.12em; padding: 0px;">Fenlason says the piece looks at "how we have an almost-erotic attraction to our technology. The film supplied by Parra is shown on a big screen that represents Joan's phone, her computer screen, etc., with which she constantly interacts. We're often more attached to our technology than to real people."</div><div style="color: #222222; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 1.12em; margin-top: 1.12em; padding: 0px;">The story takes place in the near future, and Joan (played by four actresses) is a marketing whiz who can sell anybody anything—a "terrible power," according to Fenlason—and she has issues with her boyfriend, her aging father and her boss. She also has to decide whether she should answer a call by a women's protest group to support issues that she feels do not really affect her.</div><div style="color: #222222; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 1.12em; margin-top: 1.12em; padding: 0px;">Read the entire article here:</div><div style="color: #222222; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 1.12em; margin-top: 1.12em; padding: 0px;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.tucsonweekly.com/tucson/pondering-live-performance/Content?oid=3428399">Pondering Live Performance | Review | Tucson Weekly</a>:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /><br />
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</div></cite>TucsonStage.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09458564035576045395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34365883.post-53298658226439724592012-06-21T19:14:00.001-07:002012-06-21T19:14:02.878-07:00Second Audition notice, Jem Street's new play "Hope"<div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:20.0pt'>BEOWULF ALLEY THEATRE</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>SECOND AUDITIONS </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:16.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>Jem Street’s play</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:26.0pt'>Hope</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:26.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Beowulf Alley Theatre will hold auditions for Jem Street’s new play, a dramatic comedy about politics, history and what makes a person become a politician. June 25<sup>th</sup> at 6:30 PM. Resume and headshot are preferred. Show dates are Friday and Saturday, July 20<sup>th</sup>, 21<sup>st</sup> , 27<sup>th</sup> and 28<sup>th</sup> at 7:30 PM and Sunday, July 23<sup>rd</sup> at 2:30 PM . </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Needed:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>One African-American woman 20-30</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>One man 30-40’s</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Please contact the theatre at <a href="mailto:theatre@beowulfalley.org"><span style='color:purple'>theatre@beowulfalley.org</span></a> or 520 882 0555. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Hope tells the story of Joe Chandler and his one night in a hotel room where he must face the skeletons in his closet before he runs for public office. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div>TucsonStage.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09458564035576045395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34365883.post-32193936133693403342012-05-31T15:57:00.001-07:002012-05-31T15:57:51.155-07:00An evening of musical and "sketch" comedy with Dave Fitzsimmons and Tom Potter<div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Beowulf Alley Theatre presents</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:26.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Dave Fitzsimmons </span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>and </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:26.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Tom Potter</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:26.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>In an evening of musical and “sketch” comedy</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Beowulf Alley Theatre presents Dave Fitzsimmons and Tom Potter in an evening of musical and “sketch” comedy at</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>7:30 PM Friday, June 15<sup>th</sup> at Beowulf Alley Theatre, 11 S. 6<sup>th</sup> Avenue in downtown Tucson. Tickets are $12, $10 for seniors, military and teachers. Our student price is only $8.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Dave Fitzsimmons, the editorial columnist for The Arizona Daily Star, and blues-playing humorist Tom Potter give Tucson an evening of laughter, music and some sketchy business. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>For more information, call 520 882 0555 or email at <a href="mailto:theatre@beowulfalley.org">theatre@beowulfalley.org</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div>TucsonStage.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09458564035576045395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34365883.post-21597549428549624542012-05-31T12:01:00.001-07:002012-05-31T12:01:08.519-07:00Beowulf Alley Theatre presents Joan is Burning<div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Beowulf Alley Theatre presents</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Joan is Burning</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>A new play devised by The Next Theatre at Beowulf Alley</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Beowulf Alley Theatre presents <b><i>Joan is Burning</i></b> at 7:30 PM Friday and Saturday, June 22<sup>nd</sup>, 23<sup>rd</sup>, and 29<sup>th</sup> at Beowulf Alley Theatre, 11 S. 6<sup>th</sup> Avenue in downtown Tucson. Tickets are $18. $15 for seniors, military and teachers. Our student price is only $8.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Joan is Burning is a satirical comedy of the near future. In 2018 New Orleans, Joan works for a public relations firm and has created a program that can sell anyone anything. Her love life in shambles, her only healthy relationship is with her phone/computer, her employer an avaricious, unprincipled executive, Joan must decide what she ought to do with such a newfound power. All the while an anonymous protest for the rights of women shadows her. Will Joan join the fight?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>A multi-cultural, multi-media presentation that includes extensive use of film, created by Josh Parra, and original music by Skads Muskie and Tristyn Tucci, <strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Joan is Burning</span></strong> is part of The Next Theatre at Beowulf Alley’s mission to effect relevant, entertaining themes with new models of narrative presentation. Portions of the proceeds to this production will go to benefit Disappeared Women, a women’s health advocacy group.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>For more information, contact Michael Fenlason at Beowulf Alley Theatre, <a href="mailto:theatre@beowulfalley.org">theatre@beowulfalley.org</a>, 520 882 0555.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div>TucsonStage.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09458564035576045395noreply@blogger.com0