BEFORE YOU GET TOO FAR AFIELD Begins at JACK Tonight

BEFORE YOU GET TOO FAR AFIELD will have a two-week performance run at the obie-award-winning theater JACK tonight, August 13, through August 23, Thursday - Saturday at 8pm and Sunday at 5pm. Tickets are $15 in advance or cash only at the door and are available through brownpapertickets.org. Press and industry tickets are available.

BEFORE YOU GET TOO FAR AFIELD is an epic three-part operetta. Subtitled a broken play for a broken world, the piece is largely a meditation on imprisonment, transformation and the necessity to go away and get lost every now and then. It begins at a bus stop and winds up in a chicken factory, capturing the past century in a day. Three actresses play 12 roles, conjuring a bombastic reality of coffee prisons, waahr, car seats sinking in mud and unmanned umbrellas falling from the sky. The play is teeming with loudness and grit, harsh images and blunt suffering, yet there is an equal dose of goof, absurdity and inwardness simultaneously at work. There is also much singing-the songs never let up-and by the end, the piece is practically an opera.

BEFORE YOU GET TOO FAR AFIELD was written and directed by Cara Scarmack

Music Direction by Priscilla Holbrook

Performance by Priscilla Holbrook, Katie Proulx and Cassandra Weston

Lighting Design by Christopher Weston

Set Design by Kimie Nishikawa

Masks and Suits by aricoco

Stage Management by Megan Horan

For press/industry inquiries: contact Cara at carascarmack@gmail.com

Tickets are $15 and are available through: http://beforeyougettoofarafield.bpt.me/