Sweet Disaster @ Perishable Theatre this Spring |
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How do you keep love in your life when all life is destined for tragic outcome? How do we welcome the “sweet” delicate beauty of love when catastrophe is inevitable? Providence, RI: Perishable Theatre, Rhode Island’s Research and Development Theatre, announces the world premiere of Sweet Disaster. This new play by two-time Alpert Award nominee Charlotte Meehan, hits the stage April 25 - May 11, 2008. This new multimedia play combines theatre and animated film in a full production directed by Perishable resident artist Ken Prestininzi, Artistic Director of Brown University’s Apprentice Company. This stage work is a paean to the catastrophic and the ridiculous. Taking place in a variety of ostensibly curative settings (a group therapy session, an insurance office lobby, the beach, a car dealership, a confessional, among others,) Sweet Disaster distils those moments of before, between, and after a disastrous event into one conversation between the love that remains and the one who has departed. In describing the play, director Ken Prestininzi states, “Some of us get stuck on a sentence while trying to solve the crisis of our lives. Some of us turn to escapist hobbies or perversions for pleasure. Ms. Meehan looks at us in our state of ruin, knowing we can all feel exiled from our homes, our language and our instinct to play and create. She uses her prowess in research and in mixed media, music, language and imagistic playwriting to wake us to the possibility of being engaged in the act of creating our cultural hopes and pleasures. Her play is big hearted and brings sorrow forward rather than leaving it behind with loss, so that we may continue to love despite disaster.” Sweet Disaster Ticket Information TICKETS: Ticket prices are $10 for previews, $20 general admission/$15 students, seniors, military/$10 for Perishable members. Discount rates available for groups of 6 or more. Students, Seniors and Military personnel must present a valid form of identification at the box office to claim their tickets. Tickets are available through ArtTix online at www.arttixri.com or at the number below: ArtTix Sales Office: (401) 621-6123 Group Sales: (401) 331-2695 x 103
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