Adams, Bonarrigo Set For DANCE OF THE SEVEN HEADED MOUSE 6/17 At The Beckett

Hungry Hill, Ltd proudly invites you to their new production, Dance of the Seven Headed Mouse, a new play by Carole Gaunt, directed by Christopher McElroen. Joseph Adams, Laura Bonarrigo, Molly Ephraim and Lauren Currie Lewis comprise the cast. Performances will begin June 17th at The Beckett at Theatre Row, 410 West 42nd Street (between 9th and 10th Avenues), for a limited engagement through July 25th. Opening Night is set for Tuesday, June 23rd (7 pm).

The fault lines are exposed when a seemingly picture-perfect Fifth Avenue family faces the harshest of realities - the death of their daughter. A father turns to work to drown his sorrow, while his wife drifts into a haze of pills and booze. When their surviving child Avril inexplicably drops out of her prestigious New England boarding school, her roommate Juliana arrives for a visit, determined to lure her back. Acting as a catalyst and witness, Juliana exposes the gaping cracks in the family's Upper East Side façade, forcing its three surviving members to engage with one another and the tragedy they share. Dance of the Seven Headed Mouse is a tale of love, loss, and acceptance from Carole Gaunt, award-winning author of the memoir, Hungry Hill.

Carole Gaunt is the author of Hungry Hill - A Memoir (University of Massachusetts Press June 2007) and received the inaugural Anne Bancroft Memorial Memoir Writing award from the Stony Brook Southampton Writers Conference. Her book has been listed in the 2008 Association of American University Presses (AAUP) University Press Books Selected for Public and Secondary School Libraries and was featured on CSPAN's "Book TV" with the theme "Women with Gumption." A graduate of the Commercial Theatre Institute, she was an associate producer for the South African doo-wop musical, Kat and the Kings, which ran on Broadway for 180 performances. A former board member of the Alcoholism Council of New York, she often writes about the effects of parental addiction on the children in the family. Also, she has appeared as an actor on Lifetime Television.

Christopher McElroen is Co-Founder & Executive Director of The Classical Theater Of Harlem, where has helped produce 36 productions at CTH in the past seven years, yielding 13 AUDELCO Awards, 5 OBIE Awards, 2 Lucille Lortel Awards, a Drama Desk Award and CTH being named "1 of 8 theatres in America to Watch" by the Drama League. As a director, he has helmed numerous productions at CTH including The Cherry Orchard with Earle Hyman, The Blacks: A Clown Show (4 OBIE Awards) and the post-Katrina inspired Waiting For Godot with Wendell Pierce, which was recently remounted outdoors in the Lower 9th Ward and Gentilly section of New Orleans. He also directed the international tour of Sekou Sundiata's 51st (Dream) State, which premiered at The Brooklyn Academy Of Music's Next Wave Festival.

Hungry Hill, Ltd. is dedicated to revealing the devastating effects of alcohol/substance abuse on its real victims, the family members left frantically trying to hold things together. It aims to educate through provocative works of literature (Hungry Hill) and theatre.

The Beckett at Theatre Row is located at 410 West 42nd Street (between 9th & 10th Avenues).