KOLT Run Creations Presents ESCAPE FROM HAPPINESS 11/19-12/19

Escape From Happiness, a raucous dark comedy by celebrated playwright George F. Walker, will be presented by Sacramento's Elly Award-winning theatre company, KOLT Run Creations, at the Ooley Theatre from Friday, November 19th through Sunday, December 19th, 2010.

The Quinns are a familiar but eccentric, working-class family trying to protect each other from drugs, alcohol, random acts of violence, police corruption and (semi) organized crime in their impoverished neighborhood. Hopeful mother Nora (stage veteran Martha Kight) and her mysterious husband Tom (Patrick Murphy, Elly winner for KOLT's Crime and Punishment) depend on the help of their three daughters (Elly Award winners Kellie Raines, Kristine David and Kelley Ogden) to save the family from collapse. Rounding out the stellar cast are local favorites Andrea Guidry, Jeffrey Lloyd Heatherly, Ben Moroski, Justin Muñoz, and Jeff Webster. A former taxi driver, playwright George F. Walker's corrosively satirical viewpoint on modern urban culture has produced a prolific and successful body of work with many critics describing his plays as "spoken opera." The New York Times raved, "Mr. Walker takes once radical techniques right to the edge, to the very risky brink, but stops short of despair. If 'Escape From Happiness' -- telling, terrific title -- does not care about how the truth can ruin your day, it's because the play is concerned with more important things, like changing our lives."

For more information visit http://koltruncreations.com.

 

To post a comment, you must register and login.