Aurora Theatre Company Presents COLLAPSE, 2/3-3/6

Aurora Theatre Company continues its 19th season with Minneapolis-based playwright Allison Moore's COLLAPSE. This surprising comedy, which originated as one of Aurora Theatre Company's Global Age Project (GAP) finalists last season, is the second main stage production to develop from the GAP; it will receive its main stage debut as a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere, a collaboration with Aurora Theatre Company (lead theater), Curious Theatre in Denver, and Kitchen Dog Theater in Dallas. In COLLAPSE, Hannah tries desperately to hold the façade of her perfect life together, even as her husband, David, mysteriously calls in sick to work day after day, they struggle with infertility, and Hannah herself is on the verge of being laid off. When Hannah's sister appears on their doorstep, she brings with her a feisty, renegade attitude and an illicit package that sends David and Hannah on a 12-hour odyssey into some quirky corners of Minneapolis, and into the heart of their deepest fears.
 
Director Jessica Heidt, as well as original GAP cast members Aldo Billingslea, Gabriel Marin, Carrie Paff, and Amy Resnick, reprise their roles for Aurora's main stage production of this comedy about surviving and transcending, inspired by the 2007 collapse of the Mississippi River Bridge in Minneapolis.
 
COLLAPSE will be the fully-staged anchor production in this season's Global Age Project, an Aurora Theatre Company initiative that encourages playwrights and directors to explore life in the 21st century and beyond. In addition, several new plays dealing with global age concerns will be chosen from an international pool of playwrights and presented in a series of developmental readings during the run of COLLAPSE.
 
 
DATES: Previews: January 28, 29 and February 2 at 8pm; January 30 at 2pm; February 1 at 7pm
                        Opens: February 3, 2011
                        Closes: March 6, 2011
 
SHOWS: Tuesday at 7pm; Wednesday through Saturday at 8pm; Sunday at 2pm and 7pm
 
WHERE: Aurora Theatre, 2081 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA
 
TICKETS: For tickets (Students $10-15; Previews $34; Regular Performances $34-45; Limited Opening Night Seating $55) or subscriptions ($145-$235) the public can call
(510) 843-4822 or visit www.auroratheatre.org. Half-off tickets for Under 30 and group discounts available.