Upcomiing: For Better by Eric Coble, Gaslight Baker Theatre, Lockhart, June 10 - 25

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FOR BETTER
A Comedy for Our Connected World

by Eric Coble
Directed by Lori Cordova

June 10 - June 25

EVENINGS - Fridays and Saturdays ,June 10 - 25 at 8 p.m.
MATINEES - Sunday June 19 & Saturday June 25 at 2 p.m.
Regular Adult Tickets $12 - Senior & Children Tickets $10

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In this plugged-in world of email, text-messaging and camera phones, do a bride and groom really need to be in the same country to go on a honeymoon? Karen and Max are getting married. At least, if their jobs will ever let them be in the same city at the same time. A romantic comedy for the digital age. This hilarious new farce pokes fun at our overdependence on the gadgets in our lives.

"Coble's work is a tour de force with physical and verbal comedy to spare" - The New Yorker

"Coble's comedies are, of all things, genuinely funny" - Newsday

"Eric Coble's hilariously funny, psychologically astute portraits hit home with rib-tickling acuity" - New York Times

Click to view cast list at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Auditions: For Better, Gaslight Baker Theatre, Lockhart, April 3 - 4

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Auditions at Gaslight Baker Theatre, Lockhart:

For Better

by Eric Coble

Directed by Lori Z. Cordova

Sun April 3,2011 @ 3:00pm and Mon April 4,2011 @ 7:00pm
at the Gaslight-Baker Theatre
216 S Main St. Lockhart, Texas 78644

NEEDED: 3 WOMEN (21-45) 3 MEN (30-65) AUDITONS WILL CONSIST OF COLD READINGS FROM THE SCRIPT Comedic timing a real plus.

In this plugged-in world of email, text-messaging and camera phones, do a bride and groom really need to be in the same country to go on a honeymoon? Karen and Max are getting married. At least, if their jobs will ever let them be in the same city at the same time. A romantic comedy for the digital age, this hilarious new farce pokes fun at our overdependence on the gadgets in our lives.

The reviews:

"Coble's work is a tour de force with physical and verbal comedy to spare" - The New Yorker
"Coble's comedies are, of all things, genuinely funny" - Newsday
"Eric Coble's hilariously funny, psychologically astute portraits hit home with rib-tickling acuity" - New York Times

Performance Dates: June 10 - 25, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m.
Weekend matinees on Sunday, June 19 and on Saturday, June 25 at 2 p.m.

Questions? Contact Lori Z. Cordova at lorizrn@gmail.com)

Images by Tom Brown: Virtual Devotion, Wimberly Players, 4/16 - 5/09

Received directly from the Wimberley Players, press photos by Tom Brown:

The Wimberley Players present

Virtual Devotion

a satiric comedy by Eric Coble

April 16 – May 9, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., Sundays at 2:30

Tickets are $18, available online at www.wimberleyplayers.org or by calling (512) 847-0575.

Armegeddon is coming to the Hill Country, in the shape of a satirical comedy Virtual Devotion, opening at the Wimberley Playhouse on April 16. Written by Eric Coble, it depicts a day in the life of three members of a shattered family trying to navigate a world of pollution, terrorism and disease to make some connection through – and in spite of – their faith.

See additional image at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Upcoming: Virtual Devotion, Wimberley Players, April 16 - May 9

UPDATE: Talk-back with the cast following the show on Friday, May 30

Received directly:

The Wimberley Players present

Virtual Devotion

a satiric comedy by Eric Coble

April 16 – May 9, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., Sundays at 2:30

Tickets are $18 except opening night ($25, with a reception at 7 p.m.)available online at www.wimberleyplayers.org or by calling (512) 847-0575.

Armegeddon is coming to the Hill Country, in the shape of a satirical comedy Virtual Devotion, opening at the Wimberley Playhouse on April 16. Written by Eric Coble, it depicts a day in the life of three members of a shattered family trying to navigate a world of pollution, terrorism and disease to make some connection through – and in spite of – their faith.

Pete is a televangelist for “The Mature Warriors of Christ,” a pulpit from which he preaches violent hate against sinners, especially youth, to his 35 million viewers. He is on top of the world until he discovers he has the Mystery Plague, a fatal illness he has heralded as God’s vengeance. Anne, a sweet young telemarketer for the Happy Halo Ministry for Children, is up against a deadline to raise funds to send CD-ROMs on the Book of Job to the children in Sudan, when her business line is mistakenly advertised as a National Confession line.

Ruth, a sardonic, isolated woman, views the world from her armchair until she sees the face of the prophet Ezekiel in her tapioca pudding; now the world is clamoring at her door as everyone from CNN to Disney scrambles to cash in on her miracle. Jesus comes back and answers the age-old question, “What Would Jesus Do?” In this day and age, he would begin his day in a temp agency and find himself in a string of service economy jobs. These four characters become deeply entwined in one another’s lives, eventually meeting up on the “Home Shopping Network” selling religious artifacts.

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