ASF's Spring Provocative Premieres THE FALL OF THE HOUSE 4/9-25

The Alabama Shakespeare Festival, one of the country's leading theatres in the creation of new stage works, will produce the world premiere of The Fall of the House this spring. Produced in a series called Provocative Premieres, The Fall of the House will run April 9-25. The play has been developed through ASF's prestigious Southern Writers' Project new play development program. The Provocative Premieres are suggestive, stimulating and extreme, promising to take audiences to the edge.

Tickets for The Fall of the House range from $20-$36 and can be purchased at the ASF Box Office, by visiting on line at www.asf.net or by phone at 800.841.4273. ASF is located at 1 Festival Drive in Montgomery's Blount Cultural Park.

The Fall of the House, written by Robert Ford, is a darkly sophisticated work that involves a mystic whose supernatural life intertwines with famed writer Edgar Allan Poe and that of a young African American female architect in the twentieth century. Through movement in time and place over the course of 150 years, surprising personal connections and answers to tragic events are revealed.

The Fall of the House will be directed by ASF's associate director and director of the Southern Writers' Project, Nancy Rominger. Rominger directed the debut of Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder's The Furniture of Home at ASF last winter.

Jonathan C. Kaplan, Erika LaVonn, Margaret Robinson, Angela K. Thomas and Gerritt VanderMeer will be performing in this world premiere.

Other recent ASF world premieres include Gee's Bend (also by Wilder) and Mark Saltzman's Rocket City. Both plays have been published by Samuel French, Inc., one of the world's biggest play publishing houses.

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