Apollinaire Theatre Company Presents TWO MILE HOLLOW by Leah Nanako Winkler

Apollinaire Theatre Company presents Two Mile Hollow by Leah Nanako Winkler

"It has everything desired of a good parody: It's deliciously biting, wildly over-the-top and unrelentingly hilarious. Yet "Two Mile Hollow" also provides some nutritious food for thought about how people of color are portrayed in our art and media, and whose perspective we're conditioned to accept as important." -Twin Cities Pioneer Press

When the Donnellys gather to divide their belongings after the sale of their oceanfront mansion, both an internal and literal storm brew. As this brood of famous, longing-to-be-famous, and mess of a Caucasian family comes together with their POC personal assistant, Charlotte, some really really really really really complicated and totally unique secrets are revealed over white wine.

A satirical takedown coupled with moments of disorienting sincerity, TWO MILE HOLLOW explores with brutality, awe, and compassion the age old theater genre of affluent white families retreating to their big houses for a weekend of secrets and fights. Only this time, none of the white characters are played by white actors.

TWO MILE HOLLOW was produced as a simultaneous world premiere by First Floor Theater (Chicago), Mixed Blood Theatre/Theater Mu (Minneapolis), Ferocious Lotus (San Francisco) and Artists At Play (Los Angeles). It was named one of the Top 15 Plays on the 2017 Kilroys List.

Performances of Two Mile Hollow are Dec. 21, 2018-Jan. 20, 2019Fri. & Sat. at 8:00, Sun. Jan. 13 and 20 at 3:00. Performances are at the Chelsea Theatre Works, 189 Winnisimmet St., Chelsea.

Tickets are $30, $25 seniors, $15 students. Tickets can be purchased by calling (617) 887-2336 or on-line at www.apollinairetheatre.com. Information and directions at www.apollinairetheatre.com.

Performances will be followed by a Reception with the actors. Two Mile Hollow by Leah Nanako WinklerDec. 21, 2018-Jan. 20, 2019Chelsea Theatre Works, 189 Winnisimmet St., Chelsea. (617) 887-2336 • www.apollinairetheatre.com

Featuring: Jasmine Brooks, Christa Brown, Mauro Canepa, Paola Ferrer, & Armando Rivera

Directed by Danielle Fauteux Jacques Costumes: Susan PainoSets: Nathan LeeSound Design & Music Direction: David ReiffelProduction Assistant: Loan Kieu NguyenStage Manager: Robin Mackey, ASM: Maurine Heberden. Running Time: estimated 1 hour 45 minutes, with one intermission.

Leah Nanako Winkler is a Japanese-American playwright from Kamakura, Japan and Lexington Kentucky. Her play God Said This premiered at the Humana Festival, won the Yale Drama Series Prize, and will have its NYC premiere at Primary Stages this season. Other plays: Kentucky (2015 Kilroys List, World Premiere: Ensemble Studio Theatre co-production with Page 73 and the Radio Drama Network), Two Mile Hollow (2017 Kilroys List, 2017-2018 Simultaneous World Premiere at First Floor Theater, Mixed Blood/Theater Mu, Artists At Play, and Ferocious Lotus), Linus and Murray (EST/Marathon 2017) and more. She is the 2018-2019 Jerome Fellow at the Lark, an alumna of Youngblood, a 2016-2018 Time Warner Fellow at WP Theater, a member of the Ma-Yi Lab, and a member of the Dorothy Streslin New American Writer's Group at Primary Stages. She was awarded the first-ever Mark O'Donnell Prize from The Actors Fund and Playwrights Horizons in 2017. Leah is one of the inaugural playwrights to receive a commission from Audible's emerging playwrights fund.

Apollinaire Theatre Company stages passionate plays at their elegantly restored theater in the Chelsea Theatre Works, as well as free summer Apollinaire in the Park performances. Recently Apollinaire opened two new theaters at the Chelsea Theatre Works, the Riseman Family Theatre that houses their Apollinaire Play Lab program for children and youth, and the new BlackBox Theatre, a rental house for Greater Boston's performing arts community.Apollinaire productions include A Midsummer Night's Dream, Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov, Stupid F**king Bird by Aaron Posner, A Beautiful Day in November on the Banks of the Greatest of the Great Lakes by Kate Benson, Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven by Young Jean Lee, and First Love is the Revolution by Rita Kalnejais.