'With and Without' Playwright Jeffrey Sweet Chats on 5/29

WITH AND WITHOUT playwright, Jeffrey Sweet, will speak at the Bickford Theatre Thursday Night Chat, following an 8 p.m. performance of the play on Thursday, May 29.  The Thursday Night Chat is a post-performance discussion about the play and the performance. Sweet will be joined by the cast of the production which will run at the Bickford from Thursday, May 22 through Sunday, June 15.

 
Admission to the chat is free. Tickets for the production are $27 for Morris Museum and Bickford Guild members; $30 for general public; $28 for senior citizens; $15 for students 18 and under or those with a valid school ID and $26 for groups of 10 or more. Tickets can be purchased by calling 973.971.3706 or visiting www.bickfordtheatre.org.

 
WITH AND WITHOUT is an adult comedy about sex and friendship—with and without! Mark and Shelly have taken a lakeside cabin for a relaxing weekend with their friends Jill and Russ, another married couple. Things don't start off as planned when Jill arrives without her husband, who hasn't been home or returned phone calls. Shelly and Mark try to save the weekend, while Jill mulls over saving or discarding her marriage when she meets Glen. The situation is complicated by the fact that Jill and Mark were once a couple and Shelly introduced her to Russ. What compromises are we willing to make with the truth to keep even the strongest relationships from coming apart? (Some content may not be suitable for children.)

 
Jeffrey  Sweet has been a playwright, screenwriter, lyricist, critic, journalist, teacher, theatre historian, and sometime songwriter and director. He is a resident member of Chicago's Victory Gardens Theater, where he is the resident playwright.  Twelve of his plays including Flyovers, The Action Against Sol Schumann, Value of Names, Berlin '45, With and Without, and Bluff have been produced there. His new play, Court-Martial at Fort Devens, opened there in February 2007 and was nominated for the Joseph Jefferson Award for best new work. An anthology of his plays will be published June 2008 called The Value of Names and Other Plays by Jeffrey Sweet.

 

The Bickford Theatre is professional theatre located within the Morris Museum at 6 Normandy Heights Road, (at the corner of Columbia Turnpike) in Morristown, NJ.  The theatre is a member of Theatre Communications Group and New Jersey Theatre Alliance, the consortium of New Jersey professional theatres.  Box Office Hours are Monday through Friday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. with walk-up service Tuesday through Friday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.  Bickford Theatre is fully accessible and offers occasional audio description, as well as assisted listening devices for all performances.