Burning Coal Theatre Co Hosts A Staged Reading Of BLUE 5/21 At Meymandi Theatre

Burning Coal Theatre Company announces a staged reading of Blue, a new play by Kelly Doyle of Raleigh. Admission is free with a suggested donation of $5. No reservations are necessary. For further information, please contact Burning at (919) 834-4001. Please note: No one under 17 without parent or guardian for this one.

Blue will be read on Thursday, May 21, 2009 at 7:00 pm at Meymandi Theatre at the Murphey School, located at 224 Polk St. in Raleigh. The public is invited to witness and participate in the development of this exciting new play and participate in an informal discussion following the performance.

According to Doyle, Blue details "a young woman from a conservative family in an arranged marriage who is suddenly plagued with visions and voices drawing her to places that don't exist, giving her ideas that can't exist. Gifted with an imagination so real, so powerful and so seductive, she must follow her visions or suffer insanity." The reading is directed by Emily Ranii of Carrboro.

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Burning Coal Theatre Company is Raleigh's small, professional theatre. Burning Coal is an incorporated, non-profit [501 (c) (3)] organization. Burning Coal's mission is to produce literate, visceral, affecting theatre that is experienced, not simply seen. Burning Coal produces explosive reexaminations of overlooked classic and modern plays, as well as new plays, whose themes and issues are of immediate concern to our audience, using the best local, national and International Artists available. We work toward a theatre of high-energy performances and minimalist production values. The emphasis is on literate works that are felt and experienced viscerally, unlike more traditional linear plays, at which audiences are most often asked to observe without participating. Race and gender non-specific casting is an integral component of our perspective, as well as an international viewpoint.