CATF Keeps Five Alive in their 19th season!
Shepherdstown, WV (Vocus/PRWEB ) January 29, 2009 -- The Contemporary American Theater Festival (CATF) is admiring to advertise their 2009 calendar of new plays. "The accession of a fifth play during our endure division was actual able-bodied received," declared Ed Herendeen, CATF Founder and Producing Director. "In our nineteenth season, we will abide architecture on that activity with 5 new American plays from 5 award-winning playwrights." The 2009 division will run from July 8 through August 2 at Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, and will affection the afterward plays in alternating repertory:
Farragut North by Beau Willimon - Set in Iowa during a bound presidential primary race, columnist secretary Stephen has a career that men alert his age would envy. Thrown into backroom politics, how do you accept amid animalism for ability and adherence to the cause? This political ball is a archetypal account of airs set adjoin the mural of baby boondocks America… a attending at ourselves.
The accession of a fifth play during our endure division was actual able-bodied received In our nineteenth season, we will abide architecture on that activity with 5 new American plays from 5 award-winning playwrights. Yankee Tavern by Steven Dietz - Just if you anticipation you'd heard every 9/11 approach in the world… a man walks into the Yankee Tavern. There, a adolescent brace acquisition themselves bent up in what ability be the better cabal of them all. Witness this angry and funny affecting abstruseness and apperceive already afresh that what you don't apperceive can aching you.
Fifty Words by Michael Weller - Marriage is no airing in the park. This calm ball is a amazing roller-coaster ride to the painful, funny, absolute and atrociously honest affection of avant-garde marriage. Most audiences with any acquaintance of cohabitation will admit themselves in this affecting battlefield of abreast relationships. Love hurts… and it's not necessarily pretty.
The History of Light by Eisa Davis (World Premiere) - Imagine your father's academy adherent tracking you down and sending you a assemblage of his animated adulation letters. But what if you never knew your father, or a true, alternate love? A adolescent singer's activity is adapted as her accomplished becomes her present. Swelling with the music of a admirable piano, actuality is a amorous admixture amid fathers and daughters, lovers and friends.
Dear Sara Jane by Victor Lodato (World Premiere) - Sweet Sara Jane, abandoned at home, waits for her soldier bedmate to acknowledgment from war. After too abounding bourbons, she poses alarming questions and exposes awful secrets. Sister and mother, fantasy and fact, it's all askance calm in this mix of abstract actor and mad cabaret. One woman, not absolutely alone, in this abandoned play with songs.
The CATF Box Office will accessible March 9 with pre-season hours Monday through Friday from apex until 5:00pm, with the online box appointment accessible 24 hours a day 7 canicule a week. Single admission prices activate at $25 with subscriber CATCards accessible to see four or all 5 plays at discounted prices. Please agenda that basement is bound for all performances of Dear Sara Jane. For advice on Group and Organizational discounts accessible on groups of 10 or more, amuse alarm 304-876-3304.
A Sneak Preview for the 2009 division will be captivated Saturday, April 18 at 7 message in the Studio Theater at Shepherd University. Watch for added advice soon!
The Contemporary American Theater Festival prides itself on bearing and developing new American theater. Since 1991, CATF has produced 68 new plays, including 25 apple premieres. Five plays, 5 playwrights, 5 different affected adventures at the Contemporary American Theater Festival. For added information, amuse appointment www.catf.org or alarm 304-876-3473 or 800-999-CATF (2283).
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