The Buck Creek Players Open GENDER SOUFFLE, 3/29

The Buck Creek Players will continue their 2012-2013 season "In the Spotlight" with the Indiana premiere comedy Gender Souffle, written by Lisa Cripps. Opening Friday, March 29th, and running for two weekends through Sunday, April 7th, 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 the southeast-side of Indianapolis at 11150 Southeastern Avenue. Tickets are $15 for adults and $13 for students (through college), and senior citizens (ages 62 and older). Due to adult situations, this production is recommended for audiences ages 13 and older. Reservations are recommended and may be reserved online at www.buckcreekplayers.com, or by calling (317) 862-2270. Group discounts are also available for parties of ten or more.

Kaye Anders (Shaun Ancelet), a book editor living in a Chicago apartment, is single and looking...for a roommate, that is. Her former roommate, Natalie (Sonja Distefano), recently moved out after marrying her boyfriend. Frustrated with her own lack of success on the dating scene, as well as lonely and financially struggling without Natalie to help share the rent, Kaye runs the gamut of creeps and freaks trying to find a suitable replacement. Enter Harris Moore (Robert Webster Jr.), a professor on sabbatical looking for a place to settle while continuing his research on "The Sociology of Gender." After boldly reassuring her he is not an axe murderer, Kaye takes Harris in and the sparks soon begin to fly. Could an attraction be building between the two, in spite of their staunch differences of opinion on the opposite sex? Or will they kill each other first? Other characters show up, adding extra spice to the soufflé: There's Poot (Hannah Parnell), the tool-toting professional beauty contestant; Mark (Patrick Becker), the handsome womanizing jerk; and a couple of other would-be roommates that...well...you'll just have to see for yourself. James Creech, Melissa DeVito, and Patrick M. Murphy round out the small cast of eight.

Lea Viney returns to direct for Buck Creek Players after serving as Set Designer and Technical Director for our production of Harold and Maude last spring. She has also directed the BCP productions of Dancing at Lughnasa (2009), The Deer and Antelope Play (2008), and The Haunting of Hill House (2006). Joining Viney on the production team are Judy Duncan (Producer), Melissa DeVito (Assistant Director), and Andrew Ranck (Lighting Designer). Viney also serves as Set Designer and Technical Director for the production.

For more information or directions to The Playhouse, please visit the theater's website at www.buckcreekplayers.com.

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