Clarence Brown Theatre Invites Audience Members to Share Favorite Family Memory in Honor of 4000 MILES

Do you have a favorite photo of you and your Grandmother? Or, are you a Grandmother and have a favorite photo of you and your Grandson? To celebrate the message in the Clarence Brown Theatre's production of "4000 Miles," patrons are encouraged to bring a favorite photo to post on the CBT Community Collage that will be located in the lobby of the main theatre during the run. All photos with return addresses on the back will be returned.

The award-winning "4000 Miles" by contemporary playwright, Amy Herzog, will run October 30 through November 16, 2014. It will be performed without an intermission and contains adult language and content. It is sponsored by The Clayton Foundation and Pilot Flying J. Media sponsors include WUTK, WUOT and The Knoxville News Sentinel.

In this 2013 Pulitzer Prize finalist for Drama, both love and irritability are woven into an illumination of the healing process after the loss of a loved one. The play is filled with small, revelatory and often humorous moments between a grandmother and her grandson.

"If your heart is sick or just needs warming, go and see this play. If you are a baby boomer who doesn't understand your grandchildren...or are from Gen Y and, like, really weirded out by your grandparents...go and see this play. If you simply love theatre, go and see this play, said The Sydney Morning Herald.

The critically acclaimed comic-drama was written by playwright Amy Herzog who based the Vera character on her own grandmother. Herzog was the winner of the 2012 Obie Award for Best New American Play, the 2012 Lucile Lortel Award, and the 2012 Off Broadway Alliance Award. "4000 Miles" was also named "TIME" magazine's #1 Play of 2012.

Providing a very unique theatre experience, this production will be staged "in-the-round," a form of theatrical presentation in which the audience is seated in a circle around the stage. The Carousel Theatre is one of the oldest theatres in-the-round in the country.

Lise Bruneau (Director) currently resides in Washington, DC, where she is a founding member of the Taffety Punk Theatre Company and has directed several productions. Other regional theatre directing credits include the Nebraska Shakespeare Festival and the MetroStage (DC). As an actor, she has performed in such regional theatres as the Cleveland Playhouse, Arena Stage, the Old Globe, ACT, Seattle Rep, Berkeley Rep; and for the St. Louis, Alabama, Chicago, Santa Cruz, and Oregon Shakespeare Festivals.

The cast is comprised of four actors.

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