Main Street Theater Presents OR, Closes 3/20

Main Street Theater continues its inaugural New/Now Series with the regional premiere of Or, by Liz Duffy Adams. [Please note: there IS a comma (,) in the title itself.] The production will close on March 20 at Main Street Theater - Rice Village, 2540 Times Blvd. Performances are on Thursdays at 7:30pm, Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm, and Sundays at 3pm. Tickets range from $24 - $35, depending on date and section. The preview performance is $10. Tickets are on sale in person at the Main Street Theater Box Office, 2540 Times Blvd., via phone at 713.524.6706, or online at MainStreetTheater.com.

About Or,
In this saucy farce, Adams weaves a tale around Aphra Behn, 17th century spy-turned-playwright, King Charles II, her erstwhile employer, and Nell Gwynne, the most accomplished and notorious actress of her day. While war rages, Aphra and her friends celebrate free love, cross-dressing and pastoral lyricism. A passionate, joyful look at all kinds of freedom: sexual, spiritual, artistic, and political.
Or, had its world premiere in New York at the Women's Project in 2009. The Magic Theatre in San Francisco just gave the play its West Coast premiere at the end of 2010. MST is proud to present the Southwest regional premiere.
Liz Duffy Adams won the Lillian Hellman Award for Playwriting for Or, in 2010.

About Playwright Liz Duffy Adams
Liz Duffy Adams is a recipient of a New York Fellowship of the Arts Award (2006-2007), the Weston Playhouse Music Theatre Award (2008), the Frederick Loewe Award for Music-Theater (2006), and the Will Glickman Award (2004). An MFA graduate of Yale School of Drama, she got her BFA at NYU's Experimental Theater Wing. Plays include Neon Mirage (2006 Humana Festival anthology play with six other playwrights); A Wrinkle in Time (commissioned/produced by Syracuse Stage); and A Fabulous Beast (One Dream Theater, starring Edie Falco).
Her work has been written, produced, or developed at the Humana Festival, SPF, Portland Center Stage's JAW/West, Portland Stage Company's Little Festival of the Unexpected, Syracuse Stage, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, MacDowell Colony, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Millay Colony for the Arts, Shotgun Players, Clubbed Thumb, and Crowded Fire among other organizations. Publications include Poodle with Guitar and Dark Glasses in Applause's Best American Short Plays 2000-2001, numerous short plays and monologues in anthologies from Heinemann and Smith & Kraus, and several plays published by Playscripts, Inc. Adams is a New Georges Affiliated Artist, an alumna of the Women's Project's Playwrights Lab, and a recipient of a Children's Theater Company/New Dramatists "Playground" commission.
As profiled in American Theatre magazine by Jean Schiffman, "To Adams, we're all endangered and slightly mad; the world's a quasi-menacing, topsy-turvy place; and the mysteries of the future-and the past-beckon. Her plays unfold in expansive, often post-apocalyptic settings. They're vibrantly theatrical, textually thick, compact and comical.... Adams' language is an assured and often hilarious blend of the formal, the lyrical and the colloquial. Hers is an utterly unique and captivating voice."

Discussion Series
Main Street is pleased to continue its Post-Show Discussion Series. Following the performance on Saturday, March 19, playwright Liz Duffy Adams, director Troy Scheid, and the cast will engage in a talkback with the audience. There is no extra charge to attend.

About the Production

Troy Scheid directs Or, after directing last season's Machinal. Stephanie Holland Earl plays Aphra Behn; Jessica Boone plays Nell Gwynne; Patrick Earl plays Charles II. (All three actors were recently seen in MST's production of The Heidi Chronicles).
The design team includes Art Ornela (set and properties design), Macy Perrone (costume design), Daniel Polk (lighting design), and Janel J. Badrina (sound design). Debs Ramser is the production stage manager.

 

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