Apollinaire Theatre Company Presents CUT, & SMUDGE, 3/23-4/21

Apollinaire Theatre Company presents 2 plays running in repertory by new voices for the stage, Smudge by Rachel Axler and Cut by Crystal Skillman.

Emmy Award winning playwright Rachel Axler (The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and Parks and Recreation) explores the limits and power of love in Smudge.

Darkest Comedy meets Sci-fi as Colby and Nick, expecting a baby, give birth to a smudge. 

Enter the behind the scenes of Reality TV in Cut. Three writers are racing the clock to craft the perfect fiction of other people's lives, and keep the reality of their own at bay.

With just 3 hours to recut the finale of "The Ladies of Malibu," they are fighting for their jobs in a world where "cutting is choosing" and anyone may be cut. 

Announcing PAY WHAT YOU WANT pricing! With the goal of making high quality theater open and inviting to all, and inspired by theater companies like Columbus’s Available Light which pioneered Pay What You Want theater pricing, they will offer all tickets on a Pay What You Want basis. Pay What You Want differs from Pay What You Can, as a judgment free invitation to enjoy the show at the price you choose. While Apollinaire has experience producing free outdoor summer shows supported primarily by sponsorship and community fundraising, these shows are not supported by sponsorships or grants, but depend on traditional ticket sales. This is their first experiment with Pay What You Want box office instead of a fixed ticket price!

Performances are March 23-April 21, 2012 Shows run in Rep.-Full Schedule Below. Performances are at the Chelsea Theatre Works, 189 Winnisimmet St., Chelsea. Tickets are Pay What You Want for all performances. Tickets can be purchased by calling (617) 887-2336 or on-line at www.apollinairetheatre.com Information and directions at www.apollinairetheatre.co. Performances will be followed by a Reception with the actors in the Gallery.

Performances are March 23-April 21, 2012 Fridays & Saturdays at 8:00, Saturdays March 31 and April 21 at 5:00.

Smudge:
Friday March 23 8:00, Saturday March 24 8:00
Saturday March 31 at 5:00
Friday April 6 8:00
Friday April 13 8:00
Satuday April 21 8:00

Cut:
Friday March 30 8:00, Saturday March 31 8:00
Saturday April 7 8:00
Saturday April 14 8:00
Friday April 20 8:00, Saturday April 21 5:00

Each play runs apx. 90 minutes

Apollinaire Theatre Company stages passionate plays at their elegantly restored theater in the Chelsea Theatre Works, as well as New England's only bilingual free summer theater in the park. Less than five miles from downtown Boston, our historic building is at the center of the burgeoning Chelsea arts community. Our recent sold out run of Uncle Vanya staring John Kuntz brought our trademark outdoor environmental staging indoors for the first time. Other recent productions include Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand, The Wedding on the Eiffel Tower by Jean Cocteau, dark play or stories for boys by Carlos Murillo, The Wonderful World of Dissocia by Anthony Neilson, and East of Berlin by Hannah Moscovitch.

Cut
Danno: Stewart EVan Smith
Rene: Elizabeth Anne Rimar
Colette: Alyce Householter

Smudge
Colby: Alison Meirowitz
Nick: Chris LaVoie
Pete: Michael Fisher

Cut Directed by A. Vincent Ularich
Smudge Directed by Danielle Fauteux Jacques
Cut Stage Manager: Beatle Ring
Smudge Stage Manager: John Cadiz
Production Stage Manager: Erica Paige Brown
Intern: Kelly Julesz
Sound Design: Emily Ledger
House Managers: Carol Bortman, Eli Bortman, Ida Rudolph

RACHEL AXLER (Playwright/Smudge) is a playwright and Emmy-winning television writer (The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and Parks and Recreation). Her play, Archaeology, premiered at The Kitchen Theatre in 2009. Other plays of hers have been developed through The Lark Play Development Center, Manhattan Theatre Club, The Playwrights Foundation and the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference. Rachel has held fellowships at The Dramatists Guild and The Lark, and is currently working on commissioned plays for South Coast Rep and Lincoln Center Theater. Humor pieces of hers have been published in The New York Times, In Character and two editions of Monologues for Women, By Women. Rachel received her BA from Williams College and her MFA in Playwriting from UCSD. Member: Dramatists Guild, Writers Guild of America.

CRYSTAL SKILLMAN (Playwright/Cut) won the 2010 New York Innovative Theater Award for Outstanding Script for her play The Vigil or the Guided Cradle. Other plays include: Perfect, Birthday, Nobody and Telling Trilogy, (Rising Phoenix Rep). Hack! an I.T. Spaghetti Western (Impetuous Theater Group/The Brick Theater); Crawl, directed by Colette Robert for Red Fern Theater (Gentrifusion); Killer High for director Hope Cartelli (Piper McKenzie/Vampire Cowboys Saloon Series). She is currently developing Geek, a new play commission for the Obie-Award winning company Vampire Cowboys as well as The Sleeping World with director Daniel Talbott for an EST member workshop. Her new play for Rising Phoenix Rep, Sex and Death in London was produced in their Cino Nights series. In Spring 2012 she will be the resident playwright at Overturn Theater Ensemble.