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The After-Dinner Joke by Caryl Churchill at Charlestown Working Theater

Dates: (11/7/2013 - 11/24/2013 )

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Charlestown Working Theater


442 Bunker Hill Street
Charlestown,MA 02129

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Running Time: 75 minutes, no intermission

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Young, idealistic Selby wants to "do good" so she quits her secretarial job in a large corporation and begins to work for that corporation's charity branch. As she negotiates her new world of the business side of charity, she plunges into an Alice-in-Wonderland-like adventure - and embarks on a quest to separate politics from charity.

Originally written for television, The After-Dinner Joke was first aired on BBC 1 in 1978. 35 years later, Caryl Churchill's wicked satire of the politics of charity and the absence of charity in politics has lost none of its relevance or bite. Whistler's five-actor cast takes on the more than 60 characters and 50 locations in an anarchic, Monty Python-inspired whirlwind.

Running Nov. 7-24 at Charlestown Working Theater, presented by Whistler in the Dark Theatre

For more information, visit www.whistlerinthedark.com

Cast and Creative team for The After-Dinner Joke by Caryl Churchill at Charlestown Working Theater

Featuring:
Melissa Barker
Joseph Freeman
Bob Mussett
Lorna Nogales
Meredith Stypinski

Directed by Meg Taintor
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