Ensemble Presents Sam Shepard's AGES OF THE MOON

Ensemble Theatre continues its 36th MainStage Season with Sam Shepard's wickedly funny play AGES OF THE MOON, directed by Stephen Vasse-Hansell.

Give thanks with Ensemble Theatre as we present this NE Ohio Premiere from American Master Sam Shepard. Byron and Ames are old friends, reunited after a desperate phone call. Over bourbon on ice, they sit, reflect and bicker until fifty years of love, friendship and rivalry are put to the test at the barrel of a gun. A powerful play about love, aging and the things we don't say to each other. At once raucously funny and heartbreakingly poetic, Ages of the Moon reaches down into our collective guts and touches the humanity, joy and pain we all experience.

"A poignant and honest continuation of themes that have always been present in the work of one of this country's most important dramatists, here reconsidered in the light and shadow of time passed."-NY Times.
"The back and forth between the two is classic Sam Shepard-a mixture of humor, hostility and something that is at once folksy and dark. The language is pure poetry that seems to wrap up the characters in a strange, solitary song that is all their own. The tension between the desolation of the present and their dueling reminiscences of a rich past seems to cast Ames and Bryon into a universe that is limitless and lonely-their voices their only refuge against the encroaching, infinite darkness." -DC Theatre Scene.

Cast:
Allan Byrne* as Ames.
Allen Branstein as Bryon
*(Member of Actors' Equity Association)
Production Team:Production Stage Manager: Becca MoseleyLighting Design: Steven BartonSet Design/Technical Director: Stephen Vasse-HansellSound Design: Stephen Vasse-Hansell & Ian Hinz.

This production opens Friday November 13th and runs through Sunday December 6th.
Ensemble's MainStage Theatre.
Fridays & Saturdays @8pm. Sundays @2pm.

Tickets $12-$24.
Purchase tickets by phone: 216-321-2930
Email: tickets@ensemble-theatre.org
Online: www.ensembletheatrecle.org