various locations around town
November 17, 2005 - December 10, 2005
CHARENTON THEATER COMPANY ANNOUNCES THEIR FALL TOUR: PETER NICHOLS’ A DAY IN THE DEATH OF JOE EGG
November 17, 2005 - December 10, 2005
"Both moving and funny" - New York Post
"This unforgettable play still shocks, delights, and provokes debate!" - London Times
Charenton Theater Company is proud to announce their Fall Tour production, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, written by Peter Nichols and directed by Sarah May. This savage comedy-drama follows a couple as they raise their severely handicapped daughter, and the play penetrates deep with the effects this has on marriage, careers, and family. As they try to make light of their situation, parents Bri and Shelia resort to humor and fantasy as a way to get through each day. The production opens November 17, 2005 and runs through December 10. Tour locations include St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Solon Center for the Arts, Headfooters Outsider Art Gallery, Spaces Gallery, Lake Erie College and Pilgrim Congregational United Church of Christ. As is tradition with Charenton, all performances are free admission, and donations are gratefully accepted.
Charenton will close its 2005 season by reuniting award-winning Six Degrees of Separation director May with actors Jacqi Loewy (also Charenton’s artistic director) and Jeffrey Grover in this production. This immensely moving, profound and funny play about love and marriage centers around a family's struggle to cope with and raise their only child, the title character, a severely handicapped girl with whom they cannot communicate. The play, in its wonderfully theatrical style, also explores the well-meaning friends and family in their response to the handicapped daughter and the parents who love and nurture her. It is a scorching, unruly and darkly comic dramatization of the effect of tragedy on a marriage and it breached several taboos in the late 1960's. A successful recent Broadway revival starred British comedian and actor Eddie Izzard.
The Tour Schedule is as follows (all performances are at 8:00 p.m. unless otherwise noted, and are free admission):
Thursday, November 17 and Friday, November 18 St Paul's Episcopal Church 2747 Fairmount Blvd. Cleveland Hts., OH
Saturday, November 19 Solon Center for the Arts 6351 S.O.M. Center Rd. Solon, OH
Off Thanksgiving weekend
Wednesday, November 30 Headfooters Outsider Art Gallery 12610 Larchmere Blvd. Cleveland, OH 44120
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, December 1 – 3 Spaces Gallery 2220 Superior Viaduct Cleveland, OH 44113
Wednesday, December 7 at 12:30 p.m. Lake Erie College Fine Arts Center Painesville, OH 44077
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, December 8, 9, and 10 Pilgrim Congregational United Church of Christ 2592 West 14th Street Cleveland, OH 44113
Post-show discussions will take place after the November 18, December 2 and 9 performances.
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg reunites award-winning Six Degrees of Separation director May with actors Jacqi Loewy and Jeffrey Grover. In 2003, Charenton Theatre Company won a Northern Ohio Live Award of Achievement for its season, which Six Degrees of Separation was a part.
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg various locations around town November 17, 2005 - December 10, 2005
