LOVE Opens At Center Stage, NY 3/2

The Production Company presents the US Premiere of the 2004 Wal Cherry Award Play of the Year 2006 Australian Writers' Guild Award (AWGIE) Best Play, Love.
The play is written by Patricia Cornelius and stars Bronwen Coleman, Erin Maya Darke, and Ken Matthews. It is directed by Mark Armstrong.

The show is a limited engagement and runs from March 20 - April 12, 2009. Opening night is Friday, March 20 at 8:00 pm.

Tickets are on sale at theatermania.com.

Tanya, Annie and Lorenzo, are young, but already with their youth wrung out of them. They've been abused, they're abusive and they're difficult to like, let alone love. But it is LOVE, in all its distorted and mutated forms, that holds them together,.

The production stars Bronwen Coleman (The Beebo Brinker Chronicles) as Tanya, Erin Maya Darke (The Sublet Experiment) as Annie and Ken Matthews (The Most Damaging Wound) as Lorenzo.

The production features scenic design by April Bartlett, costume design by Deanna Frieman, and lighting design by Dan Henry. Sara Bader is the sound designer and Jeff Meyers is the stage manager.

Love plays the following regular schedule through Sunday, April 12:

Wednesdays at 8 p.m.
Thursdays at 8 p.m.
Fridays at 8 p.m.
Saturdays at 8 p.m.
Sundays at 3 p.m.

Tickets are $20 and are now available online at www.theatermania.com or by calling 212-352-3101. Tickets may also be purchased in-person at the Center Stage, NY Box Office, ½ hour prior to the performance.

For more information visit: www.productioncompany.org.

Patricia Cornelius (Playwright), a founding member of Melbourne Workers' Theatre, is an award-winning playwright, as well as director, dramaturg and novelist. She has written over twenty plays, including Lilly and May, Jack's Daughters, Max, Platform, Who's Afraid of the Working Class, Hog's Hairs and Leeches, Fever, Boy Overboard, Cunning and Do Not Go Gentle. Her first novel, My Sister Jill, was published by Random House in 2002. Love won the 2004 Wal Cherry Play of the Year Award and the 2006 AWGIE for Stage. Most recently, Do Not Go Gentle won the prestigious 2007 Patrick White Award.

Mark Armstrong (Director) is the Artistic Director of The Production Company, which exchanges challenging new plays between the US and Australia. He directed the company's premiere productions of Blair Singer's critically-acclaimed The Most Damaging Wound, Stephen Belber's Melbourne, Elizabeth Meriwether's The Sound in the Throat, Beau Willimon's I Am Ned Kelly, Alan Berks' Goats (NY Premiere), Ben Ellis' Falling Petals (US Premiere) and Beneath Us, Brendan Cowell's 967 Tuna, Ross Mueller's Pinter's Explanation and Elise McCredie and Trudy Hellier's The Furies. Other New York credits include Stephen Adly Guirgis' Untitle D, Elizabeth Meriwether's Poor Bob and Jason Grote's In His Bold Gaze, My Ruin is Writ Large (24 Hour Plays), anton dudley's circumvention (Keen Company), Delaney Britt Brewer's Hype Man and Edith Freni's Don't Fear the Shark (Youngblood/EST), Suzanne Bradbeer's Cocus and Doot (Vital Theatre) and Fear and Loathing on the Nile (EST), Nicholas Gray's Dug Out (Lincoln Center Theater @ HERE) and Frank Basloe's Linked (Hypothetical). Academic theater (as guest professional): Columbia, NYU, New School for Drama, USF (Holloway Guest Artist). From 1995-99, he was resident director with Dark Horse Theatre Company in his native Minnesota, where he directed Fat Men in Skirts, The Food Chain, Private Eyes, Five Women Wearing the Same Dress and Orphans. Member, Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers and Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab. MFA, Arizona State University (Dobkin Directing Fellow), where he studied with Marshall W. Mason. Mark is proud to be the Literary Director for Playscripts, Inc.

The Production Company's work promotes and deepens cultural exchange between the United States and Australia and encourages artists to explore the relationship between our two countries.

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