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Having casually wandered onstage, George is informed that one of the actors, Eddie, has been in an auto accident and he must replace him immediately. Apparently no one is sure of what play is being performed but George (costumed as Hamlet) seems to find himself in the middle of a scene from Private Lives, surrounded by such luminaries as Sarah Siddons, Dame Ellen Terry and Henry Irving. As he fumbles through one missed cue after another the other actors shift to Hamlet, then a play by Samuel Beckett, and then a climactic scene from what might well be A Man for All Seasons—by which time the disconcerted George has lost all sense of contact with his fellow performers. Yet, in the closing moments of the play, he rises to the occasion and finally says the right lines, whereupon make-believe suddenly gives way to reality as the executioner’s axe (meant for Sir Thomas Moore) instead sends poor George to oblivion—denying him a well-earned curtain call.
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“Anne of Green Gables”
Wake Forest Renaissance Centre (5/18 - 5/19) | |
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The Spitfire Grill
Stone Soup Theatre Company (5/31 - 6/9) | |
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The Lion King
Durham Performing Arts Center (5/15 - 6/9) | |
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Being Chaka
Burning Coal Theatre Company (3/13 - 3/30) | ||
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Paint Me This House Of Love
Burning Coal Theatre Company (1/30 - 2/16) | ||
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Copenhagen by Michael Frayn
Burning Coal Theatre Company (10/10 - 10/27) | ||
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Merrily We Roll Along
Burning Coal Theatre Company (4/10 - 4/27) | ||
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Lerner & Loewe's Camelot
The North Carolina Theatre (11/16 - 11/24) | |
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Kristin Chenoweth
North Carolina Symphony at Meymandi Concert Hall (5/18 - 5/18) | |
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