Buck Creek Players Presents BARBECUING HAMLET, 2/4-13

The Buck Creek Players will continue their 2010-2011 season "From Page to Stage" with Pat Cook's hilarious tribute to life on the community theater stage, Barbecuing Hamlet.  Opening Friday, February 4, and running for two weekends through Sunday, February 13, curtain times will be at 8:00 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, with 2:30 p.m. matinees offered on Sundays.  All performances will be held at the Buck Creek Playhouse on Indianapolis' southeast side at 11150 Southeastern Avenue.  Tickets are $14 for adults and $12 for children, students, and senior citizens (ages 62 & older) and can be reserved by calling (317) 862-2270.  Group discounts are available for parties of ten or more.
 
Wouldn't it be great fun to direct William Shakespeare's Hamlet? That was what Margo Daley always thought...until she is hired to do just that by the Peaceful Glen Memorial Players in their theater, a renovated funeral home. They DO have a couple of conditions, however. Margo has to make the play a melodrama so the audience will know when to throw the popcorn. Oh, and Margo has to insert the sponsors' names into the play and, by the way...it has to take place in the Old West. "And make sure the actors talk real loud because of all the noise the audience makes sucking their fingers," states one of the council members, an occupational hazard brought about by selling barbecue before the show. All kinds of eccentric characters come out of the woodwork in this riotous tribute to life on the community theater stage. Even the pizza delivery girl is given parts! Several parts since Margo only has four actors to portray the five-act tragedy. Fast lines and even faster exits punctuate this farce as Margo and her troupe of misguided actors find out what it's like when they begin Barbecuing Hamlet.

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