West End Players Guild Presents A WOMAN'S PLACE, 11/5-14

West End Players Guild continues its 100th season of theatre in the CentrAl West End with an evening of one-act plays titled "A Woman's Place." An ensemble cast will appear in the four short plays presenting women in extraordinary circumstances. "A Woman's Place" opens on Friday, November 5, and continues through Sunday, November 14. Shows are at 8:00 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 2:00 p.m. on Sundays, with all performances at the Union Avenue Christian Church, 733 Union Avenue.

Chuck Lavazzi, Nancy Lubowitz, Susan Arnold Marks, Sean Ruprecht-Belt, Elissa Schrader and Anthony Wininger all play multiple roles in the four one-acts, which are directed by Renee Sevier-Monsey and Carrie Phinney. The plays are Trifles by Susan Glaspell, Australia by David Mamet, Hello Out There by William Saroyan, and Ashes to Ashes by Harold Pinter.

First performed by The Provincetown Players in 1916, Trifles is the story of a farm woman arrested in the murder of her husband. While the male investigators look for clues, their wives find answers in simple women's chores dismissed as 'trifles' by the men.

In Australia - A Scene two women discuss the murder of a woman and her children by her husband. Did they pick up on something the wife should have known in order to save herself?

In Hello Out There a man is jailed in a small Texas town for rape. He says the sex was consensual and the woman only wanted to be paid for it afterwards. Who will be believed, and how will justice be served?

 

 

Ashes to Ashes finds Devlin questioning his wife Rebecca about a former lover. What she recalls is a hypnotic mixture of genocide, mass murder and sadomasochism. Are these truly memories, or only dreams? Where are they coming from?

 

 

Tickets for "A Woman's Place" are $18 and are available at the box office or online at www.WestEndPlayers.org.

West End Players Guild began as The Players, presenting their first show in 1911. The Guild's 100th season continues in February with Shelagh Stevenson's Memory of Water and concludes in April with the St. Louis premiere of Kathryn Chetkovich's Acts of Love.