Echo Theatre Announces Five Lesbian Brothers' THE SECRETARIES Playing 9/25 - 10/11

Echo Theatre Company presents the regional premiere of The Secretaries by The Five Lesbian Brothers from September 25-October 11. Directed by Echo's Artistic Director Eric Little, the comedy will feature the talents of two-time Kevin Kline Award winners Colleen Backer and Lavonne Byers and Julie Layton, Sara Renschen and Amanda Williford*. The production will be held in Echo's performance venue, Theatre 134, in the ArtSpace at Crestwood Court. The theater is located in the Crestwood Court shopping center at the corner of Watson and Sappington Roads.

In this dark comedy, a cult of Slim-Fast guzzling secretaries inducts the new girl Patty into the world of Cooney Lumber in Big Bone, Oregon. These women work together, play together and once a month slaughter a lumberjack together. Chainsaws, cat fights and high heels are a must in this laugh-out-loud St. Louis premiere!

The Secretaries plummets audiences into the slimy underbelly of office work and female bonding. The irreverent (and bloody) comedy examines society's ever-expanding fascination with sex and violence and the ways in which women act as the enforcers of sexism.

Tickets for The Secretaries are available through Brown Paper Tickets at 1.800.838.3006 and on-line through Echo's website at www.echotheatrecompany.org. For more information, call 314.225.4329.

Performance dates are September 25 through October 11, 2009. Show times are at 8:00 p.m. on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays and at 7:00 p.m. on Sundays.

Single tickets are $20 general admission and $15 for students and senior adults. Tickets for students with a valid ID are 2/$20 at the door.

The Five Lesbian Brothers are Maureen Angelos, Babs Davy, Dominique Dibbell, Peg Healey and Lisa Kron. They came together as a theatre company in 1989 after performing together in various other combinations at the OBIE Award-winning WOW Cafe.

Echo Theatre Company is an artist-driven company whose mission is to champion bold, contemporary works that provoke, excite and entertain. In addition to professional productions, Echo develops and nurtures new theatre audiences and artists through the Imagination over Limitations children's hospital outreach, a free play reading series and their Next Generation educational programs.

*Appearing Courtesy of Actors Equity Association