SCR Presents CIRCLE MIRROR TRANSFORMATION, 1/9-30

Last season's biggest Off-Broadway hit, Circle Mirror Transformation, will have its West Coast premiere on SCR's Julianne Argyros Stage Jan. 9 - 30.
 
Annie Baker's story of five would-be actors in a Vermont community center's "creative drama" class is funny, quirky and surprisingly touching. It won the Obie Award for Best New American Play earlier this year, and its director, Sam Gold-who will also helm SCR's production-won an Obie for Best Director.
 
The play takes its name from a popular theatre game that involves a group of actors standing in a circle and mirroring-and then transforming-each others' movements. Baker uses this and other theatre games to reveal the personal dramas of each character:

Marty (Linda Gehringer), the free-spirited director of the community center and excited leader of the center's first creative drama class for adults.

James (Brian Kerwin), Marty's husband, an aging hippie with an estranged daughter who's taking the class because...well, really, what choice does he have?

Theresa (Marin Hinkle), a former actress who has recently fled the competitiveness and claustrophobia of the Big Apple for acupressure school in Vermont.

Schultz (Arye Gross), a carpenter who hopes to meet new people and forget about his recent divorce, primed to fall in love with the first woman who bats an eye at him.

Lauren (Lily Holleman), 16 and sullen, with problems at home and dreams of playing Maria in her high school's production of West Side Story.
 
Circle Mirror Transformation'screative team includes three designers from the Off-Broadway production-David Zinn (set design), Mark Barton (lighting design) and Leah Gelpe (sound design)-along with Angela Balogh Calin (costume design) and Jennifer Ellen Butler (stage manager).
 
Larry and Dee Higby are the Honorary Producers.
 
TICKETS: Can be purchased online at www.scr.org, by phone at (714) 708-5555 or by visiting the box office at 655 Town Center Drive in Costa Mesa. Performances begin Jan. 9 and continue through Jan. 30. Ticket prices range from $20 to $66. Low-priced preview performances are available Jan. 9 - 13. Opening night is Friday, Jan. 14, and press night is Saturday, Jan. 15, at 7:45 p.m.
 
TIMES: Previews are Sunday, Jan. 9, at 2 p.m., and Tuesday through Thursday, Jan. 11 - 13, at 7:45 p.m. Regular performances are Tuesday through Sunday evenings at 7:45 p.m., with Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2 p.m. Discounts are available for full-time students, patrons 25 years of age and under, educators, seniors and groups of 10 or more. There will be an ASL-interpreted performance on Saturday, Jan. 29, at 2 p.m.
 
POST-SHOW DISCUSSIONS: Tuesday, Jan. 18, and Wednesday, Jan. 19
Discuss the play with members of the Circle Mirror Transformation cast during free post-show discussions led by South Coast Repertory's literary team.
 
INSIDE THE SEASON: Saturday, Jan. 22, 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. $12
Inside the Season is a series of interactive seminars that provide a comprehensive inside look at the theatrical production process. Each two-hour session features a set tour and a question-and-answer period with creative personnel working on the production. Inside the Season is offered on select Saturday mornings from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Tickets are $12 each and can be purchased online at www.scr.org, by phone at (714) 708-5555 or at the Box Office. (Tickets to Circle Mirror Transformation are sold separately.)
 
LOCATION: South Coast Repertory is located at 655 Town Center Drive in Costa Mesa, at the Bristol Street/Avenue of the Arts exit off the San Diego (405) Freeway in the Folino Theater Center, part of the Segerstrom Center for the Arts. Parking is available off Anton Blvd. on Park Center Drive.
 
COMING UP: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Jan. 21 - Feb. 20), Lucky Duck (Feb. 11 - 27), The Weir (Mar. 13 - Apr. 3).
 
ABOUT SCR: Tony Award-winning South Coast Repertory, under the artistic direction of David Emmes and Martin Benson, is widely recognized as one of the leading professional theaters in the United States. Founded in 1964, SCR is committed to theater that illuminates the compelling personal and social issues of our time, not only on its stages but through its education and outreach programs. While its productions represent a balance of classic and modern theater, SCR is renowned for its extensive new play development program, including the Pacific Playwrights Festival. Of SCR's more than 445 productions, 117 have been world premieres with subsequent stagings achieving enormous success across America and around the world. SCR-developed works have garnered eight Pulitzer Prize nominations, with Margaret Edson's Wit winning the prize in 1999 and David Lindsay-Abaire's Rabbit Hole in 2007. Located in Costa Mesa, California, in 2002 SCR opened the Folino Theater Center, an expanded three-theater complex that includes the 507-seat Segerstrom Stage, the 336-seat Julianne Argyros Stage and the 94-seat Nicholas Studio.

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