Funky Little Theater Company Presents COUPLE DATING

Funky Little Theater Company is proud to present the Regional Premiere of Cricket Daniel's play, Couple Dating. This production will have performances February 26th-March 14th, 2015 (Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7pm + Monday, February 9th at 7pm is Industry Night, a performance dedicated for people in the service industry or theatre industry, but all patrons are welcome). All tickets are $15 and can be purchased online (www.funkylittletheater.org) or at the door. Funky Little Theater Company accepts cash, check or most major credit cards. All performances will be at Funky Little Theater Company located at 2109 Templeton Gap Road, 80907. This production features performances by Alicia Franks, Jonathan Herrera, Jennifer Westrom-Crabtree, Carrie Chesney, Hilary Hudson, Grant Langdon, Emma Colligan, and Alex Niforatos and is directed by FLTC Artistic Director, Chris Medina.

About the playwright: Cricket Daniel hails from Bend, Oregon and this her first full-length production in Colorado. She has previously written one-act plays for FLTC's 24SEVEN: A 24-Hour Theatre Festival, twice (Kentucky Fried Chickens and Love Thy Neighbor) and was selected from over 80 playwrights for a spot in the Millibo Art Theatre's Six Women Playwriting Festival in 2012. Ms. Daniel will be in Colorado for the closing weekend of Couple Dating and will be available for talkbacks and mingling with guests after each of those performances.

About the director: Chris Medina is the Founder and Artistic Director of Funky Little Theater Company. He was named Best Mover and Shaker in the Arts in the Gazette's Best of the Springs 2014. He recently directed the Regional Premiere of Laurie Brooks' new play, Afflicted: Daughters of Salem, and the World Premiere of August Mergelman's The Restless Ghost of Emma Crawford at FLTC. He has also directed for 24SEVEN at FLTC, Six Women Playwriting Festival at the Millibo Art Theatre, Our Shorts Are Showing with Craft Production Resources, among other various high school and college shows around town.

About the play: What happens when your wife wishes to expand your limited circle of friends? She decides to make arrangements to do some "couple dating" and invites each of three separate and decidedly different couples to spend an evening in your home. The result is a boisterously entertaining comedy about love, marriage, friends and contemporary relationships. Couple Dating tells the engaging story of Tess and Bobby Marotta, a thirty-something couple living in Brooklyn. Tess and Bobby have been married for five years and have a three-year old daughter. After watching a segment about "couple dating" on NBC's The Today Show, Tess decides that they need to explore new friendships. As each couple spends an evening in the Marotta home, the audience learns more and more about whether Bobby and Tess will find what they are searching for among their new friends or whether they will decide that their old friends are not so bad after all. Couple Dating is an edgy contemporary comedy in which you will recognize yourself, your friends and the various couples that have come and gone over the course of a lifetime.

Funky Little Theater Company is fiscally sponsored as a 501c3 and is working closely with the Pikes Peak Arts Council to bring quality arts experiences to the Colorado Springs area.

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