COUNTER MEN Plays Whitefire Theatre, Previews Tonight
By: BWW News Desk
Racquel Lehrman, Theatre Planners presents the World Premiere dramedy, COUNTER MEN written by Chuck Faerber, directed by Richard Kuhlman. The play previews Friday, August 5 at 8pm; show runs August 6 through August 27, Friday and Saturday at 8pm, at the Whitefire Theatre in Sherman Oaks.
Cast features Bart Braverman, Naila Browne, Ted Elrick, Paul Haitkin, Vanessa Herrera, Dave Kirkpatrick, Shelly Kurtz, Anna Nicholas, Marion Ramsey, Michael Ruesga, Amro Salama, Carol Soldo, Michael Uribes, and Alan Woolf.Love, war and occasionally music break out as the mother of a Marine in Iraq, waits on the "Counter Men", all single, some vets, who frequent the LA restaurant where she works. The country's mood and its military entanglements, the frustrations of unemployment and sex are on the menu. "Counter Men" is poignant and prurient - - a play punctuated by song compliments of a counter man who uses his laptop as his orchestra. This new play, both timely and touching, exposes the fundamental truth that in the end - - love is the solution.
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