Denver Center Presents EVENTIDE 1/29

A Denver Center Commissioned World Premiere Eventide by Eric Schmiedl
From the novel by Kent Haruf
Directed by Kent Thompson
January 29 - February 27, 2010 (Opening Thursday, February 4) The Stage Theatre

Commissioned by the Denver Center Theatre Company.

The epic story of Holt, Colorado began with Kent Haruf's bestselling novel and Eric Schmiedl's critically-acclaimed play - Plainsong, commissioned and premiered by the Denver Center Theatre Company in 2008. The McPheron brothers, Harold and Raymond, captured the hearts of audiences from across the Rocky Mountain West and a national Colorado New Play Summit audience of theatre professionals.
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The small town story continues for those who loved Plainsong and is introduced to a new audience with the world premiere of Schmiedl's commissioned adaptation of Haruf's companion novel Eventide. Haruf's plainspoken and endearing characters - the aging McPheron brothers and Victoria Roubideaux, the pregnant young girl they took into their home - are joined in Eventide by a lonely young boy who generously cares for his grandfather, and a mentally challenged couple trying to hold their family together.

Artistic Director Kent Thompson directs Eventide (Plainsong, Dusty and the Big Bad World, Irving Berlin's White Christmas) and has reunited many members of the creative team from Plainsong. They include Scenic Designer Vicki Smith (Inana, Noises Off, Doubt), Lighting Designer Don Darnutzer (Quilters, Richard III, The Trip to Bountiful), Sound Designer Craig Breitenbach (A Raisin in the Sun, Quilters, A Prayer for Owen Meany), Composer Gary Grundei (Plainsong, Oedipus Rex, The Merchant of Venice), Fight Director Geoffrey Kent (Absurd Person Singular, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Richard III), Vocal and Dialect Coach Michael Cobb (Absurd Person Singular, Noises Off, Pride and Prejudice) and Dramaturg Allison Horsley (Plainsong, 1001). They are joined for Eventide by Costume Designer Susan Branch Towne (The Diary of Anne Frank, King Lear, A Flea in Her Ear).

Returning to the cast from Plainsong as Harold and Raymond McPheron, respectively, are Philip Pleasants (A Christmas Carol, The Voysey Inheritance) and Mike Hartman (A Raisin in the Sun, Prayer for Owen Meany). They are joined by Tonantzin Carmelo (Denver Center debut, TNT miniseries Into the West) as Victoria Roubideaux, Drew Cortese (Richard III, 1001) as Del Gutierrez, David Ivers (A Prayer for Owen Meany, Plainsong) as Luther Wallace, Leslie O'Carroll (A Christmas Carol, Plainsong) as Betty June Wallace, William Zielinski (Denver Center debut, Arden Theatre) as Hoyt Raines, Lauren Klein (Plainsong, You Can't
Take it with You) as Rose Tyler, Ron Crawford (Denver Center debut, Steppenwolf Theatre Company) as Walter Kephart, Augustus Lane Filholm (A Christmas Carol, A Prayer for Owen Meany) as DJ Kephart, John Hutton (Absurd Person Singular, Plainsong) as Tom Guthrie, Kathleen McCall (A Prayer for Owen Meany, Plainsong) as Maggie Jones and Ellie Schwartz, Thomas Russo, Jenna Panther, Rebecca Martin, Carole Healey, Geoffrey Kent, Joseph Yeargain, Sam Gregory, Sean Lyons and Chris Mazza.

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