MEDIA RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Joyce Casey January 2007
jcasey@dobama.org www.dobama.org
216-932-6838
Dobama Theatre presents a solo drama featuring one of Cleveland’s finest actors, Scott Plate:
THOM PAIN (based on nothing) by Will Eno
Presented at 13100 Shaker Square, two doors down from the Colony Theater, January 25-February 17, 2007.
Dobama Theatre presents the Ohio Premiere of THOM PAIN (based on nothing) by Will Eno. Well known actor, Scott Plate will play Thom Pain under the direction of Joel Hammer.
THOM PAIN (based on nothing) premiered at the 2004 International Edinburgh Festival with a sold out run, where it received the Fringe First Award and the Harold Angel Award. It has been produced in England, Italy, Germany, France, Norway, Denmark, Brazil, Mexico and other countries. Thom Pain (based on nothing) had a yearlong run at the DR2 in New York City. It was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in Drama.
THOM PAIN (based on nothing) is a very unique piece of theater.
Labeled “one of the finest young playwrights I’ve come across in a number of years” by Edward Albee, Will Eno has been highly celebrated in his relatively short career. His play, THE FLU SEASON won the 2004 Oppenheimer Award for the best debut production in New York by an American playwright during the previous season. Mr. Eno is a Helen Merrill Playwriting Fellow, an Edward F. Albee Foundation Fellow, and was awarded the first Marian Seldes/Garson Kanin Fellowship by the Theater Hall of Fame.
THOM PAIN (based on nothing) is a meditation on the cumulative beauty and terror of everyday existence. This meditation climaxes in a confluent stream of memories painful, delicate and sensual. Will Eno has been termed “a Samuel Beckett for the Jon Stewart generation”. Like Beckett, he perseveres and finds humor hidden beneath the pain.
Joel Hammer, an esteemed actor and director, was last seen at Dobama as Tupolski, lead interrogator for The Pillowman. Mr. Hammer starred in A Number last season in addition to directing Dobama’s production of Edward Albee’s The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? He also directed the Tony Kushner plays produced by Dobama Theatre: Homebody/Kabul &
Angels in America, Parts I & II.
Scott Plate is known throughout Cleveland as an actor, director and teacher. He currently teaches at Baldwin Wallace College and through Young Audiences; he has taught at both Oberlin College and Cleveland State University. As an actor he has played roles at the Cleveland Play House, Great Lakes Theater Festival, Dobama Theatre, Beck Center, and Cain Park. Dobama audiences will remember him as Prior in Angels in America, Qwango Twistleton in Homebody Kabul, and a company member of The Laramie Project.
There will be a discussion following every performance of THOM PAIN.
Performance Schedule for THOM PAIN
Preview performance, January 25, 7:30 pm
Thursdays, 7:30 pm
Fridays & Saturdays.. 8 pm
Sunday January 28...7:30 p.m.
Sunday February 4 & 11---2:30 p.m.
There is no performance Sunday February 18
TICKET PRICES FOR THOM PAIN
REGULAR ADMISSION:
Preview, January 25 - $8
Pay What You Can Performance:Sunday, January 28
Friday & Saturday - $22
Thursday & Sunday - $17
SENIOR AND STUDENT:
Friday & Saturday - $20
Thursday & Sunday - $15
RESERVATIONS: 216-932-3396
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