WHAT HAPPENED IN OHIO Plays NYTW's Fourth Street Theater, Opens 5/5

WHAT HAPPENED IN OHIO, an original work from writer and director Cara Scarmack and ensemble The Roadsters, has its world premiere on May 5, 2011 at the Fourth Street Theatre of NYTW at 83 E 4th Street. Set in 1950's rural America, the play is a fierce telling of four siblings whose lives are caught dead in their tracks by a fatal automobile accident. Staged with wild imagination, the show is a gutsy meditation on loss and a look into how we pass things on.

In WHAT HAPPENED IN OHIO, The Roadsters have created their world through the use of old-timey poetic text, a meticulous physical landscape, and joyously transcendent original music. The intersecting of these elements creates an alive, immediate, and intimate performance experience. The story is here and now, and way back then, too.

Performances are May 5-22 at 8:30pm Wednesday-Friday; 2:30pm and 8:30pm on Saturday; and 5pm on Sunday. Tickets are $18 and are available through Brown Paper Tickets. Press performance dates: May 6, 7, 11 & 12.

Writer and director Cara Scarmack's work has been presented at The Kitchen, Cherry Lane Theatre, a site-specific warehouse in Gowanus, The Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, and The Brecht Forum.

WHAT HAPPENED IN OHIO was written and directed by Cara Scarmack; Performance by Priscilla Holbrook, Ashley Nease, Stephanie Viola and Nathan Richard Wagner; Music Composition by The Roadsters; Properties Design Claire Karoff; Lighting Design Christopher Weston; Costume Design Erica Evans; Stage Management/Marketing Kiki Stevenson. This work was created in part through The Field's Emerging Artist Residency program, supported by the Tides Foundation.

Tickets are $18 and are available through: www.brownpapertickets.com/event/166232
For more information: www.WhatHappenedInOhio.net

 

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