Irish Players Present BEDTIME STORY And DEBLIN CAROL

The Irish Players, a program of the Rochester Community Players, will be opening a theatrical double-header next Friday April 1: a comedy by Sean O'Casey and a drama by Conor McPherson. Bedtime Story, by Sean O'Casey, is the comedy, while Dublin Carol, by Conor McPherson is the drama. The plays will be performed at MuCCC (Multiple-use Community Cultural Center) 142 Atlantic Avenue, on the following dates and times:

Friday April 1 at 8:00
Saturday April 2 at 8:00
Sunday April 3 at 2:00

Friday April 8 at 8:00
Saturday April 9 at 8:00
Sunday April 10 at 2:00

Thursday April 15 at 8:00
Friday April 15 at 8:00
Saturday April 16 at 8:00

Tickets are $15.00 for General Admission, $10.00 for those over age 65 and $5.00 for those under age 25. The box office will open half an hour before showtime. MasterCard & Visa are accepted at the door, with a $1 surcharge per ticket. Tickets may also be purchased online at MuCCC.org (there is a surcharge for online ticket sales.)

Tickets may be purchased in advanced, without surcharge, by mailing a check payable to "Rochester Community Players" at least five days before the show date to: Rochester Community Players; 1110 Park Avenue; Rochester NY 14610. Please specify the show dates and type of tickets (general, senior, junior) requested. Please provide an email address for confirmation of receipt of your purchase by mail. We will hold your advance-purchase tickets at the box office.

About the plays:
Young John Jo Mulligan, a pious young lad, has spent the night with cunning seductress Angela, in Sean O'Casey's 1952 one-act knockabout farce,
Bedtime Story. Full or remorse, he tries to ditch the wench in the middle of the night, fearing for his reputation, but Angela has other ideas. The landlady gets the wrong idea and sends John's friend Daniel to deal with the situation.

"I'm old. I'll die if I don't drink that." So says John, a late middle age undertaker in Dublin Carol, by Conor McPherson. John knows a thing or two about death, and, maybe, a little too much about drinking himself to life. But he has a lot to say about life, death, and everything; as he explains to young Mark, 'I'm sorry. Hangover. Has me chatty.' It's Christmas Eve in Dublin: Mark, nephew of the ailing owner of the business, is interested, kinda, in what the older man has to say; he is filing in temporarily, not particularly interested in this line of work, but not particularly interested in anything else, except girls. John is in turns dignified, vulgar, philosophical, charming, crudely blunt, sober, drunk, defiant, lonely, and remorseful; just what you are looking for in a chatty Irish undertaker. His adult daughter visits and, this being an Irish drama, family secrets are revealed. As is usually the case in a McPherson play, this is seriously funny stuff, or funny about being serious, or not being serious in a funny way or whatever - John is, in any case, very interesting company to keep.

These two productions are directed by Jean Gordon Ryon. For more information, visit our website (rochestercommunityplayers.org) or please contact our producer, Peter Scribner, at 585-261-6461. Cast list;

Bedtime Story
John Jo Mulligan: Jamal Abdunnasir
Angela Nightingale: Stacy Homola
Halibut: Andy Cowen
Miss Mossie: Linda Loy

Dublin Carol:
John: John Jaeger
Mary: Laura Smith
Mark: Jamal Abdunnasir

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