230 West Fourth Street
Fort Worth, TX76102
CIRCLE THEATRE
PRESENTS
EDWARD ALBEE’S
THREE TALL WOMEN
For
immediate releaseContact:Rose
Pearson
Phone: (817) 877-3040Fax:
(817) 877- 3536 Email: plays@circletheatre.com
URL: circletheatre.com
Fort
Worth, Texas
– It appears THREE is Circle Theatre’s lucky number!The
Theatre’s up-coming production of Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women,
will be the theatre’s third Albee play (having previously
presented highly acclaimed productions of Seascape and A
Delicate Balance). Circle’s Three Tall Women features
three
first class actresses in a play that won Edward Albee his
third Pulitzer Prize.
Albee’s
Three Tall Women opens at Circle Theatre with previews Wednesday
& Thursday, September 12th and 13th, at 7:30pm
and the show’s Champagne Opening takes place Friday, September 14th
at 7.30pm.There
will be two regularly scheduled performances Saturday, September 15th
at 4:00pm
and 8:30pm.
Circle will not schedule a Sunday matinee performance for opening week.Three
Tall Women runs through October 7.
Regular
performance times are: Thursday & Friday at 7:30pm;
Saturday at 4:00pm
and 8:30pm;
Sunday at 4:00pm.Preview
tickets are $10 each.Opening night
tickets are $25.All regular performances
are $15 -$20 for Thursday & Saturday matinee & $20 - $25 on Friday
& Saturday night.Half price student
rush tickets are available at half hour on a standby basis.The
Theatre also accepts Bell Helicopter coupons and Tandy Vouchers.
Circle’s
production of Three Tall Women is guest-directed by Susan
Sargeant, founder and artistic director of the WingSpan Theatre Company
in Dallas.Ms.
Sargeant also directed Seascape and
The Last Night
of Ballyhoo for Circle Theatre.Circle’s
cast includes:Jeanne Evans (A)
*courtesy of Actors’ Equity, Anne-Lynn Kettles (B)
*courtesy of Actors’ Equity; Nicole Case (C) *courtesy
of Actors’ Equity; Tim Demsky (The Boy).
The
Play
Think
of the final scenes in Kubrick’s 2001-A Space Odyssey, in
which the aging astronaut lives out his days in an elegantly furnished
room, and you’ve got a good picture of this late, great Albee opus.The
playwright openly admits this play was his way of working out his complex
feelings towards his adoptive mother who, in his words, he knew “from my
infancy until her death over sixty years later…”
Three
Tall Women,
directed by Lawrence Sacharow, opened at the Vineyard Theatre in New
York City
in January of 1994.It subsequently
ran at the Promenade Theatre for a commercial run.The New
York
cast was as follows: A – Myra Carter; B-Marian
Seldes; C-Jordan
Baker; The Boy-Michael Rhodes.
The
Playwright
Edward
Albee was born on March
12, 1928
in Washington, D.C.He
was adopted at two weeks of age by millionaire Reed Albee and his wife,
Francis.Albee was named for his adoptive
grandfather, Edward Franklin Albee, partner in the Keith-Albee Theater
Circuit.Albee now spends part of
every year in Texas,
as a part-time faculty member at The University of Houston.He
has written highly successful plays including Who’s Afraid of Virginia
Woolf ?, Zoo Story, Tiny Alice,
The Play About The Baby, and
his two other Pulitzer Prize plays - Seascape
and A
Delicate Balance.
Albee
has enjoyed many successes, but also many jabs from critics and audiences
alike.Critic John Simon called Albee’s
The Lady From Dubuque “one of the worst plays about anything ever”.In
1960, Albee was hailed by the New York Post as the “next Eugene O’Neill.”So
obviously this enigmatic playwright has been run through the ringer, yet
remains one of the most influential playwrights in American history.
When
asked who his favorite playwrights were, he replied without hesitation,
“Beckett, Genet, Ionesco.In that
order.”Playwrights that say they
have been influenced by Albee include Terrence McNally, Christopher Durang,
Tina Howe, David Ives, and Nicky Silver, to name a few.Three
Tall Women was, after thirty years of writing plays, his first
ever to receive unanimous critical praise.In
response to his newfound acceptance, Able commented “Just wait.I’ll
be out of fashion again soon enough.”
Who’s
Who In Three Tall Women
Jeanne
Evans (A)is
making her first appearance at Circle Theatre.Ms.
Evans has been seen at many other Metroplex theatres including:The
Plaza, Casa Mañana, Granbury Opera House, Theatre Three, and Dallas
Repertory Theatre.For the last ten
years, she has been a regular at New Stage Theater in Jackson, Mississippi
where she also played “A” in Three Tall Women.Favorite
roles include:Amanda in The Glass
Menagerie, Ann in The Cocktail Hour, Fanny Church in Painting
Churches, Ethel in On Golden Pond, Lucille in The Cemetery
Club, and Marybell in The ExactCenter
of the Universe.Ms.
Evans has also performed at the Edinburgh Stage Festival in Scotland.
Anne-Lynn
Kettles (B)
was last seen at Circle Theatre as Agnes in Albee’s A Delicate Balance.Other
recent Texas
credits include Mabel in Pride’s Crossing at Allied Theatre Group,
where she also played Maria Callas in Master Class to sell-out houses.Ms.
Kettles played Claire, The Mistress, Martha, and The Lady from Dubuque
in the premiere of Albee’s Women at Caravan of Dreams, (produced
by Ann L. Rhodes and directed by Andy Harris).Ms.
Kettles has been seen at several other Metroplex theatres including Theatre
Three, and Casa Mañana; as well as several other regional theatres.The
Obie award-winning Six Characters in Search of an Author and Silent
Night, Lonely Night are representative of her work in New
York.Ms.
Kettles played the Daughter in Albee’s All Over for PBS’ Great Performances
series.(This presentation received
an Emmy nomination.)
Nicole
Case (C)
was last seen at Circle Theatre as Catherine in The Memory Of Water,
and also played Julia in Circle’s production of Albee’s A Delicate
Balance.Ms. Case has also
appeared at Allied Theatre Group and Theatre Three.New
York
credits include Carol in David Mamet’s Oleanna, and Woody Allen
in Karen Ellison’s Coring The Apple.Case
also wrote and performs in The Dirty Girls, which was produced in
January at the Raw Space in New
York,
and is currently working on a one-woman show, I am Hot and Grandma Needs
Bologna.
Tim
Demsky (The
Boy)recently
stage managed The Great Nebula of Orion for WingSpan Theatre Company.He
appeared as Kenny in Plano Rep.’s production of Proposals.Other
local theatres he has appeared at include KD Studios, Kitchen Dog Theatre,
Pocket Sandwich Theatre, and RichardsonTheatreCenter.Mr.
Demsky also has lots of film experience, having most recently served as
stand-in and photo double for Matthew Perry in the movie Servicing Sara.Circle
Theatre gratefully acknowledges Ann L. Rhodes for her generous underwriting
support of this play. Three Tall Womenis
rated PG-13 due to language. Pictures are available upon request.
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