Ensemble Continues 38th Season with O'Neill's THE HAIRY APE
Written in 1921 by Nobel Prize-winning playwright Eugene O'Neill, this iconic piece of expressionist drama is a searing social commentary on the divide between the rich and poor. Yank, an unthinking laborer, embarks on a search for a sense of belonging in a world controlled by the wealthy. His journey from the bowels of a transatlantic ocean liner to the wealthy neighborhoods of New York society serve as a metaphor for the struggle between the working man and the industrial complex found at the heart ofthe play.
"The subject here is the same ancient one that always was and always will be the one subject for drama, and that is man and his struggle with his own fate. The struggle used to be with the GODS, but is now with himself, his own past, his attempt to 'belong'. - Eugene O'Neill
"O'Neill is writing about the plight of these workers, not America's original sin. Yank is the sacrificial figure, the toughest of the lot who is also the most vulnerable." -Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times
"Writing from inside Yank's deepest desires, dreams, and innocence, O'Neill created one of his more densely and poetically conceived scripts, about a world where language and the body confuse one another, and end up cancelling each other out." -Hilton Als, The New Yorker
November 17 - December 10
Fridays & Saturdays @8pm. Sundays @2pm.
Opening night reception (11/17) with Celeste's chocolate covered strawberries!
With a great CAST of CLEVELAND ACTORS:
Joe MilanYank
Alan BransteinPaddy
Brittany GanserMildred Douglas
James Alexander RankinLong
Mary Alice BeckMildred's Aunt
Santino MontanezThe Ape, Ensemble (Yank U/S)zKeith KornajcikWhit LowellKyle HuffAugust James ScarpelliiAziz GhrabatSteve Vasse-HansellEnsemble
Tickets $12-$25. Senior, Student, & Group discounts available!
Special BOGO for opening weekend!
Pay-What-You-Can performance Sunday November 19.
2843 W. Washington Blvd
Cleveland Heights, OH 44118
PARKING
Parking can be found in the Coventry School parking lot to the south of the theatre, also along Washington Blvd and surrounding streets.
Executive Artistic Director: Celeste Cosentino
Associate Artistic Director: Tyler Whidden
Director: Ian Wolfgang Hinz
General Manager/Production Stage Manager: Becca Moseley
Set Design: Walter Boswell
Technical Director: Stephen Vasse-Hansell
Carpenter: August Scarpelli
Light Design: Andrew Eckert
Costumes: Meg Parish
Box Office: Amy J. Strumbly & Kayla Davis.
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