Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Playwrights Initiative Present Play Based on Stephen Crane's Life: 'Red Badge, Black Riders,' by Phil Paradis

Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati, Cincinnati Playwrights Initiative, and Cincinnati Arts Association Present Play Based on Stephen Crane's Life: "Red Badge, Black Riders," by Phil Paradis, May 9, 2006

Cincinnati, OH -- Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati's Theatre of the Mind Series in affiliation with Cincinnati Playwright's Initiative's New Voices Series will present a date account of "Red Badge, Black Riders," a play based on the activity of Stephen Crane, by author Phil Paradis on Tuesday, May 9, 2006, at 7:30 message at the Aronoff Center for the Arts Fifth Third Bank Theatre, on the bend of Main St. and 7th Street.

Tickets are $6 and are accessible at the aperture or by calling the Aronoff Box Office at 513-621-2787.

"Red Badge, Black Riders" is new abounding breadth play based on the activity of novelist, poet, and war contributor Stephen Crane, acclaimed as the columnist of the internationally acclaimed war atypical "The Red Badge of Courage."

The date account is accepting directed by Greg Procaccino and produced by D. Lynn Meyers. Actors assuming cover Matthew Pyle, Jerry Rape, Carrie-Ellen Zappa, Amy Harpring, Michael Hall, Rodger Pille, Al McLaughlin, Nicole Tuthill, and Roger Brookfield.

According to Phil Paradis, in 1896 the internationally acclaimed columnist of The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane, age 25, placed himself, at the acme of his newfound fame, in the centermost of a aspersion advertisement badge bribery in New York City. The after balloon was the affliction wherein Crane's animation was choleric and his acceptability assailed. Competing newspapers acclaimed Crane as hero or derided him for his celebrity and naivete.

Says Paradis, "Crane's clandestine activity became accessible as he was adapted into a celebrity. Defending a woman of ambiguous acceptability adjoin the New York City badge department, Crane alveolate himself adjoin Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt and the cachet quo of the able area administration with their stranglehold on New York City politics. Crane's accord with Roosevelt attenuated and, although Crane retained his objectivity against Roosevelt, the war hero of San Juan Hill and consecutive Governor of New York (and approaching President and Medal of Honor Winner) developed a audacious acrimony against Crane."

"Although Crane's adventuresome angle was championed and pilloried by the press, Crane became persona non grata in New York City. Leaving New York, he anchored plan as a appropriate war contributor risking his activity while accoutrement the wars in Greece and Cuba. For the butt of his life, he wrote his war memoirs, stories, novels, and endeavored to abide agilely with his wife Cora Taylor Crane in England a allotment of friends. Crane died of tuberculosis in Bandenweiler, Germany in 1900 at the age of 28."

Paradis's one act drama/comedy "A Bag of Groceries" was produced in 2005 by the Cincinnati Black Theatre Company at the Cincinnati Fringe Festival. Phil Paradis is admiral of the Cincinnati Playwrights Initiative. He resides in Fort Thomas, KY with his family.

For tickets, go to the Box Office at the Aronoff or call: 513-621-2787, or online at www.cincinnatiArts.org

Media conatct: Phil Paradis, 513-241-5154.

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