SALT AND PEPPER Returns to Teatro Paraguas This Weekend

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND: Salt and Pepper, a play by Los Alamos playwright Robert Benjamin, returing to the Teatro Paraguas Studio this weekend, January 17-19, 2014, Friday and Saturday evenings at 7:30 pm, and Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2:00 pm.

Tickets are $18 general admission and $15 seniors and students. For more information or to purchase tickets, call 505-424-1601 or visit www.teatroparaguas.org.

Salt and Pepper, a humorous play about maturing by Los Alamos playwright Robert Benjamin, returns to Teatro Paraguas after eight sold-out performances last November, and re-opens on January 17, 2014 for four performances.

Beth Kennedy Jones directs a stellar and seasoned cast, including Tone Forrest, Larry Glaister, Jennifer Graves, Deborah Hayden, Tad Jones, Kerry Kehoe, Fran Martone, Ann Roylance, Rick Vargas, and Alaina Warren Zachary.

Salt and Pepper is a tightly interwoven collection of upbeat tales about maturing with grace, courage and humor. The play's journey is from a Santa Fe park to a bed-and-breakfast inn to a post office and more. Populated by whimsical, ripening characters, this play opens with a clash over the use of a public park. It's the day-home of seasoned Shakespearean actress fallen on hard times, yet an arrogant young filmmaker wants to use it this afternoon for a movie set. The final play of the collection is his film about old newlyweds at the grave of his first wife, and guess who's cast as the new bride. Between these bookends are heartwarming stories of rekindled romance, love and loss, healing, acceptance, gift giving and receiving. It's a roller-coaster of poignant stories and sparkling characters who celebrate the hopefulness and pathos of maturing today.