4 shows that are sure to make you re-think your right to personal privacy and homeland "insecurity"…
TERRORISM (click link to visit production page)
A Philadelphia premiere of the newly revised version by the Presnyakov Brothers
Directed by Rosey Hay
March 1 – 25, 2012
Adrienne Theatre Main Stage
Featuring Karina Croskrey, Jamison Foreman, Sue Giddings, Sarah Gliko*, Eric Alexander Goetschel, Drucie McDaniel*,
Dan Olmstead*, James Stover* and Russ Widdall*.
* Denotes members of Actor's Equity Association.
There's a bomb scare at the airport, a suicide at the office. A man ties up his lover, an old woman plots murder. At the scene of a gas explosion the rescue workers are busy photographing limbs, for fun. What do these situations have common? Everyone is a terrorist and everyone is a victim of terror. In 6 interconnected scenes, the play takes a startlingly humorous look at a society in which an imminent threat of collective uncertainty looms on the edges of everyday life. Originally presented at the Moscow Arts Theatre.
ASYMMETRIC
A world premiere espionage thriller by Mac Rogers
May 17 to June 10, 2012
Adrienne Theatre Second Stage
There is a mole on the Fifth Floor. Sometimes finding a mole is the easy part. To exterminate a mole takes guts...it takes guile...it takes extreme prejudice. And the only way to come out on top is to be...asymmetric.
SAVAGE / LOVE AND TONGUES RETURN!
Written & Conceived by Sam Shepard & Joseph Chaiken
Directed by Ryder Thornton, featuring Russ Widdall
Innovative poetry and movement unfurl in this physical theatrical experience. Savage/Love is a propulsive quest of a lonely man looking for love and serves as a prelude to Tongues, a passionate fever dream in which a dying man delivers his last rites. These stream of consciousness confessionals are performed with live original music created just for our production.
During the May/June run of Asymmetric, Summer Angel Productions will be bringing back our 2011 Philadelphia Fringe Festival production of SAVAGE/LOVE and TONGUES for 5 performances!
The Fringe Festival is a busy time of year and many of our friends missed this transcendent production. Or perhaps you'd just like to see it again. Now is your chance to catch the essence of the Fringe -- "a soul searing plunge" according to the City Paper. At less than an hour long, this is one unique piece if theatre you don't want to miss the second time around.
Dates and times:
Saturday May 26 at 11 PM
Sunday May 27 at 6 PM
Monday May 28 at 8 PM
Saturday June 2 at 11 PM
Sunday June 3 at 6 PM
Performed at the Second Stage of the Adrienne Theatre
Tickets are only $10. Subscribers, Asymmetric ticket holders, Groupon package purchasers and "repeat offenders" get to attend for FREE, when making a reservation in advance by emailing Box.Office@NewCityStage.org or calling 215-563-7500. Tickets are on sale on line now.
Each ticket includes one complimentary glass of wine or beer.
SAVAGE/LOVE AND TONGUES (click link to visit production page)
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Written & Conceived by Sam Shepard & Joseph Chaiken
Directed by Ryder Thornton, featuring Russ Widdall
September 2 -17, 2011, as part of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival
Symmetry Dance Wellness Studio, 1923 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia
Innovative poetry and movement unfurl in this physical theatrical experience. Savage/Love is a propulsive quest of a lonely man looking for love and serves as a prelude to Tongues, a passionate fever dream in which a dying man delivers his last rites. These stream of consciousness confessionals are performed with live original music created just for our production.
WHY TORTURE IS WRONG AND THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE THEM (click link to visit production page)
A Philadelphia premiere by Christopher Durang
Directed by Michael Brophy
December 8, 2011 – January 8, 2012
Adrienne Theatre Main Stage
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Featuring Paul Nolan*, Marcia Saunders*, Ginger Dayle, Sam Henderson, Ed Swidey*, Sonja Robson and Russ Widdall*.
* Denotes members of Actor's Equity Association.
From the screwball imagination of local playwright Christopher Durang (author of New City's 2010-11 season favorite Miss Witherspoon), an uproarious new comedy about America's ongoing "war on terror." A young woman wakes up to a strange man, a hangover, and a whole lot of questions: Is her new husband, whom she married while drunk, a terrorist, a crazed alcoholic, or both? Is her father's hobby of butterfly collecting for real, or is it a cover for his involvement in a right-wing shadow government? Is her mother a theater-loving eccentric, or is she actually insane? The Philadelphia premiere of Durang's 2009 Off-Broadway hit answers all these questions and more this holiday season.
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