Samuel Owens

???????Ensemble Mercury will present Pool (No Water) at the Dougherty Arts Center beginning March 31st. Written by Mark Ravenhill and directed by Diane Irwin, the new play is a visceral and shocking story about the fragility of friendship and the jealousy and resentment inspired by success.

PONTIAC FIREBIRD VARIATIONS takes a scene from William Shakespeare's RICHARD III (Act I, Scene IV to be precise) and proceeds to give you twenty variations on that scene. The result, ranging from funny to striking, is perhaps one of the most brilliant deconstructions of the Bard of Avon I have ever seen. It doesn't matter if you aren't familiar with the source material, although there are some masterfully clever word plays that those unfamiliar will miss… trust me when I tell you this work is so rich with entertainment that you'll never miss what you, well, missed.