Stray Cat Theatre to Close 16-17 Season with Gender-Bent Comedy HIR

Stray Cat Theatre presents Hir by Taylor Mac, directed by Ron May.

Change can be very, very, very messy.

Somewhere in suburban central California, Isaac has returned home from the war to help take care of his ailing father, only to discover a household in revolt. The insurgent: his mom. Liberated from an oppressive marriage, with Isaac's newly out transgender sibling as her ally, she's on a crusade to dismantle the patriarchy. But in Taylor Mac's sly, subversive comedy, annihilating the past doesn't always free you from it. Stray Cat is thrilled to wrap up its season with this brilliantly subversive, hilarious implosion of the nuclear family.

CAST:

PAIGE CONNOR - Cathy Dresbach

(Stray Cat debut!)

ISAAC CONNOR - Andy Cahoon

(Stray Cat debut!)

MAX CONNOR - KJ Williams

(Stray Cat debut!)

ARNOLD CONNOR - Gary David Keast

(Stray Cat debut!)

*note: this show contains adult language and situations and would likely land a PG-13 rating.

**note of interest: Hir is pronounced exactly like the word "here."

IF YOU GO:

HIR

Opening Night Friday, April 28th, 2017 8pm
Running through Saturday, May 13th, 2017
Wednesday (3rd weekend) and Thursdays (2nd and 3rd weekends) @ 7PM
Fridays & Saturdays @ 8PM
Sundays @ 2PM

At Tempe Center for the Arts Studio Theatre, 700 W Rio Salado Parkway, Tempe, AZ 85281. Plenty of free parking! And a bar!!

TICKETS:

Orchestra - $30 for Adults / $25 Students and Seniors**

Balcony - $25 for Adults / $20 Students and Seniors**

Thursdays are Student Nights ($20 Orch., $15 Balc.)**

Sundays are $20 for EVERYBODY** (this includes both performances on Sunday the 30th)

**prices do not include service or convenience fees

Buy online 24/7 at straycattheatre.org or call 480.350.2TCA

Note: Due to circumstances beyond Stray Cat's control, there will be no performance on Saturday, April 29th. There will be an additional performance Sunday, April 30th at 7 p.m. after the 2p.m. matinee. The rest of the schedule is business as usual.

TAYLOR MAC (who uses "judy", lowercase sic, not as a name but as a gender pronoun) is a playwright, actor, singer-songwriter, performance artist, director and producer. "A critical darling of the New York scene" (NY Magazine), judy's work has been performed at New York City's Lincoln Center, The Public Theatre and Playwrights Horizons, London's Hackney Empire, Los Angeles's Royce Hall, Minneapolis's Guthrie Theater, Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre, the Sydney Opera House, Boston's American Repertory Theatre, Stockholm's Sodra Theatern, the Spoleto Festival, San Francisco's Curran Theater and MOMA, and literally hundreds of other theaters, museums, music halls, opera houses, cabarets, and festivals around the globe.

Judy is the author of seventeen full-length plays and performance pieces including, "A 24-Decade History of Popular Music" (Kennedy Prize in Drama), "Hir" (placed on the top ten theater of 2015 lists of The New York Times, New York Magazine, and Time Out NY; published by North Western University Press and in American Theater Magazine), "The Lily's Revenge" (Obie Award), "The Walk Across America for Mother Earth" (named One of the Best Plays of 2011 by The New York Times), "The Young Ladies Of" (Chicago's Jeff Award nomination for best solo), "Red Tide Blooming" (Ethyl Eichelberger Award), and "The Be(a)st of Taylor Mac" (Edinburgh Festival's Herald Angel Award).

Mac is currently creating a Dionysia Festival of four original plays (to be premiered separately and eventually performed in repertory), which deal in some way with our cultural polarization and that include: an all-ages play called, "The Fre" (commissioned by the Children's Theater Company in Minneapolis, premiere date TBD); a kitchen-sink tragedy named, "Hir" (which received its world premiere at the Magic Theater in Feb 2014); a dance-theater play, "The Bourgeois Oligarch", and a music theatre debate regarding small and large government, set inside an Ezra Pound poem, in the subconscious of Clarence Thomas, during a Supreme Court Hearing.

Mac is the recipient of multiple awards including the Kennedy Prize, Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, a Guggenheim Award, the Herb Alpert Award in Theater, the Peter Zeisler Memorial Award, the Helen Merrill Playwriting Award and an Obie. An alumnus of New Dramatists judy is currently a New York Theater Workshop Usual Suspect and the Resident playwright at the HERE Arts Center.

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