AUGUST 1st & 2nd, 2008
(Two performances only!)
MIRRORS OF CHARTRES STREET, Faulkner in New Orleans /
New Orleans in Faulkner
by Rob Florance
Starring Ryan Reinike
Final
Louisiana performances before it’s New York International Fringe Festival SoHo Playhouse premiere!
New Orleans
in the “Roaring Twenties.” A black dockworker finds himself in an unfamiliar part of the city's gritty Ninth
Ward surrounded by an armed and angry white mob The jealous husband of a sexy seductress guns down a young waiter in the French
Quarter. A grifter roams the Fairgrounds looking for an easy mark. These characters and their stories come to life through
the pen of a young and unknown writer, future Nobel Laureate William Faulkner.
"…a stand-out…funny,
poignant" - Gambit Weekly, New Orleans, LA
OCTOBER 10th – NOVEMBER 9TH, 2008
RISING
WATER by John Biguenet
Starring Randy Cheramie & Lorna Gianelloni
Nominated for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Drama. Winner of the 2006 National New Play Network
Commission Award. Winner of the 2007 Big Easy Entertainment Awards for Best Original Script.
In
Rising Water, a couple awakens in the middle of the night to find their pitch-dark house filling with water. Clambering
into their attic, and then onto their rooftop, they struggle not only to survive but also to keep the guttering flame of their
love from being extinguished.
"Rising Water emerges as a great American play – perhaps one of
the first great plays of the 21st century.”
- The Orange County Register, CA
“A rich mixture
of tragedy and humor . . . the play grabbed the audience in its first tense moments and never let go . . . Rising Water is
more like cream, rising to the top.”” - Times-Picayune, New Orleans, LA
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