The Sty of the Blind Pig Plays TheaterWorks 1/20-2/26

TheaterWorks will present The Sty of the Blind Pig by Philip Hayes Dean. Set in South Side Chicago in the late 1950's just as the Civil Rights Movement begins, this rich African American family drama looks back at a changing world and forward to a future suffused with new understandings.

Tazewell Thompson, who staged TheaterWorks’ celebrated productions of Broke-ology, God of Carnage, RACE and The Mother----- With the Hat, directs Krystel Lucas (Alberta), Eden Marryshow (Blind Jordan), Jonathan Earl Peck (Doc), and Brenda Thomas (Weedy) in The Sty of the Blind Pig, the second play of the company’s 26th Season.

By turns a rollicking domestic comedy and a mysterious, devastating tragedy, The Sty of the Blind Pig is an intriguing, finely wrought story which explores the relationship between a headstrong matriarch and her sensitive daughter.

On the cusp of the Civil Rights Movement in Chicago’s South Side, Alberta, unmarried and in her thirties, shares an apartment with her mother, Weedy, an old-fashioned Southern transplant who cloaks her troubles in the hats and dresses of her church-going life. Weedy is not an easy woman and she never misses a chance to berate her daughter or brother, Doc. Doc is a dapper, down-on-his-luck gambling man and the despair of his strait-laced sister. Nonetheless, he is a strong presence in the women’s lives.

The arrival of a stranger propels the family to confront their traditional values and expectations. When Blind Jordan comes to their door searching for a woman he once knew, the family is puzzled and even frightened. But Alberta offers to help and finds herself surprisingly taken by the blind musician. Out of the unsettling nature of their encounter comes a growing estrangement between mother and daughter, and a disturbing awareness of loneliness, despair, things lost and the relentless march of time.

The production’s design team includes Donald Eastman (Sets), Harry Nadal (Costumes) Scott Bolman (Lights), and J Hagenbuckle (Sound). Production Manager is Michael Lenaghan.

When: January 20 through February 26, 2012

Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays:

7:30 p.m.

Fridays and Saturdays: 8:00 p.m.

Weekend Matinees:
2:30 p.m.

Lobby and Gallery of American Art, sponsored by The Hartford Financial Services Group, opens 90 minutes prior to curtain; seating starts 60 minutes prior.

A free matinee for college students & faculty is offered Saturday, February 4th at 2:30 p.m. sponsored by Bank of America.

Where:
TheaterWorks
City Arts on Pearl - 233 Pearl Street in Downtown Hartford

Parking: Discounted parking is available to TheaterWorks' patrons for $5 at CityPlace Garage (diagonally up Pearl Street from TheaterWorks), 100 Trumbull Centre Garage (enter next to Quiznos) and the Q Lot, (adjacent to the Metropolitan apartment building).

Admission: All Seats – General Admission
$50

Center Reserved Service Charge
$13

College-age Student Rush w/ID
$17 (subject to availability)

Discounts are available for groups of 15 or more.

For seats call (860) 527-7838.

Free seats for select performances of The Sty of the Blind Pig are available for young people ages 14 - 17 thanks to Lincoln Financial Foundation.

The Sty of the Blind Pig is the 2nd play of TheaterWorks’ 2011-2012 Season.

Four-play subscriptions for TheaterWorks' 2011-2012 Season are only $100 through January 20, 2011. With TheaterWorks' unique subscription system patrons may attend a play any time they wish during its run, and are credited with free seats if they ever miss a play.

TheaterWorks’ $100 four-play subscription includes:

The Sty of the Blind Pig by Philip Hayes Dean
January 20 through February 26, 2012

RED by John Logan
March 23 through May 13, 2012

Time Stands Still by Donald Margulies
June 1 through July 15, 2012

Reasons To Be Pretty by Neil LaBute
August 10 through September 30, 2012

For more information, please visit www.theaterworkshartford.org

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