IRC Presents Jean Anouilh's TIME REMEMBERED

Jean Anouilh's Time Remembered:

"Ornate Artificiality Celebrating Flesh and Blood Reality"

February 6 through March 4 @ Walnut Street Theater Studio 5

French dramatist and playwright Jean Anouilh opens the IRC's 12th season in Philadelphia, presenting and celebrating seldom-produced works of absurdist authors and their forebears.

Anouilh's wonderfully dotty and beautiful Time Remembered (Leocadia) is an exquisitely textured French confection containing a tasty bite of the absurd. Anouilh spins a romantic tale of a lovesick prince, his ill-fated romance, and the lengths to which the Duchess (his Aunt, a "formidable old boot") will go to keep the memories of his love alive. The Duchess hopes that the sight of a naïve milliner- who bears an astonishing resemblance to the Prince's late paramour -- will persuade the Prince to transfer his affections from the dead to the living.

Time Remembered will preview Tuesday and Wednesday, February 6 and 7 at 7:30 pm, opens Thursday, February 8 at 7:30 and runs Wednesday through Saturdays at 7:30 pm, Sundays at 2:30 pm through March 4. Tickets are $15 - $25, for more information visit TimeRemembered.bpt,me or www.idiopathicridiculopathyconsortium.org.

Considered one of Anouilh's pièces roses (pink plays) -- comedies where fantasy dominated amidst a fairy tale atmosphere, Time Remembered first delighted London and Broadway audiences in 1957 starring Richard Burton, Susan Strasberg and Helen Hayes.

The IRC's fresh interpretation is helmed by Jack Tamburri and features IRC regulars Paul McElwee, Bob Schmidt and Tina Brock along with Ashton Carter, Corinna Burns, Thomas Robert Irvin and Katherine Perry. Lighting design is by Maria Shaplin, set and costume design is by IRC associate artistic director Erica Hoelscher. Liz Atkinson will design the sound and compose original music for the production.

The Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium is recognized as a leading interpreter of rarely-produced absurdist gems from authors around the globe. Noted for their humorous and thoughtful interpretations of seldom- seen works, the IRC's 2017 season included critically-acclaimed sold-out productions of Jean Giraudoux's The Enchanted and Eugène Ionesco's The Bald Soprano.

The IRC is a 501C3 non-profit organization, and a member of The Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance and a participant in the Barrymore Awards, a program of Theatre Philadelphia. The IRC's 2018 season is funded in part by generous grants from from Wyncote Foundation; The Philadelphia Cultural Fund; The Charlotte Cushman Foundation; The Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts program of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, with support also provided by PECO and administered regionally by the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance and the Arts & Business Council of Greater Philadelphia.