Video: Director Norman Blumensaadt on Emlyn Williams's Night Must Fall, Different Stages, June 21 - July 13, 2013

In Tom Chamberlain's three-minute video director Norman Blumensaadt outlines the origins and the tensions of the 1930's mystery by Emlyn Williams, presented by

 

Night Must Fall

directed by Norman Blumensaadt

June 21 – July 13

The Vortex, 2307 Manor Rd - click for map

Thursdays - Saturdays at 8 p.m., Sundays at 7 p.m.

No performance on Thursday July 4; added performance on Wednesday July 10.

“Pick your Price: $15, $20, $25, $30

For reservations call 478-5282

Different Stages continues its 2012-2013 season with Emlyn William’s classic mystery Night Must Fall. In a bungalow in a forest in Essex lives Mrs. Bramson, a fussy hypochondriac. She pays her niece Olivia a small salary to act as her companion and the household also includes her cook, Mrs. Terence, and her maid Dora.


When Dora gets pregnant, Mrs. Bramson is determined to get the boyfriend to marry her. At the same time, a woman disappears from a nearby hotel. The police begin investigations and, when Dora brings home her boyfriend Dan, Olivia immediately notices that his behavior is not quite normal. He is perpetually putting on an act and soon he worms his way into the affections of Mrs. Bramson, leaves his job as pageboy at the hotel and moves in. Then the woman’s body is found – headless.....


Directed by Norman Blumensaadt, Night Must Fall features Ben McLemore as Dan, Mary Kennelly as Mrs. Bramson and Bethany Harbaugh as Olivia. The cook is Played by Paula Gilbert and the maid by Laura Artesi . Daniel Norton plays the police inspector and Jonathon Urso plays Olivia’s boyfriend

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NIGHT MUST FALL by Emlyn Williams, Different Stages at the Vortex Repertory, June 21 - July 13, 2013

presents

 Emlyn Williams’s

 Night Must Fall

(image: www.ilkleyplayhouse.co.uk)

directed by Norman Blumensaadt

June 21 – July 13

The Vortex, 2307 Manor Rd - click for map

Thursdays - Saturdays at 8 p.m., Sundays at 7 p.m.

No performance on Thursday July 4; added performance on Wednesday July 10.

“Pick your Price: $15, $20, $25, $30

For reservations call 478-5282

Different Stages continues its 2012-2013 season with Emlyn William’s classic mystery Night Must Fall. In a bungalow in a forest in Essex lives Mrs. Bramson, a fussy hypochondriac. She pays her niece Olivia a small salary to act as her companion and the household also includes her cook, Mrs. Terence, and her maid Dora.

When Dora gets pregnant, Mrs. Bramson is determined to get the boyfriend to marry her. At the same time, a woman disappears from a nearby hotel. The police begin investigations and, when Dora brings home her boyfriend Dan, Olivia immediately notices that his behavior is not quite normal. He is perpetually putting on an act and soon he worms his way into the affections of Mrs. Bramson, leaves his job as pageboy at the hotel and moves in. Then the woman’s body is found – headless.....

Directed by Norman Blumensaadt (Quills), Night Must Fall features Ben McLemore (Dr Faustus) as Dan, Mary Kennelly (You Can’t Take it with You) as Mrs. Bramson and Bethany Harbaugh (Plus meets Minus) as Olivia. The cook is Played by Paula Gilbert (Too Many Husbands) and the maid by Laura Artesi (Two Gentlemen of Verona). Daniel Norton (A Skull in Connemara) plays the police inspector and Jonathon Urso (Is Life Worth Living?) plays Olivia’s boyfriend
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Performances are Thursdays through Saturdays at 8:00 p.m. and Sundays at 7 p.m.

For tickets and information call 478-5282

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Upcoming: A Teenager's Guide to Love, musical by Weird City Theatre Company at Dougherty Arts Center, May 54 - 21

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announces the world premiere of

A Teenagers Guide to Love

A 50's Musical Parody

May 5 - 21, 2011 at the Dougherty Arts Center, 1110 Barton Springs Road (click for map)

Performances are Thursday through Saturday nights at 8 p.m.

Thursday Nights are “Pay What You Wish” at the door. For all other performances, tickets are $15.00 for adults and $12.00 for children, seniors and students (with ID), and group rates are available. Advanced tickets can be purchased at our website, www.weirdcitytheatre.com.

Weird City Theatre Company announces the world premiere of A Teenagers Guide to Love, written & directed by WCT Managing Director, Patti Neff-Tiven. A Teenagers Guide is a musical parody of 50's – 60's educational films- How Do You Choose a Date? How Much Affection? Who Wrote the Book of Love?

These questions and more will be explored in an evening of kitschy, song-filled fun Our trusty narrator John F. Carroll guides us through the romantic pitfalls of our teen couple played by Sarah Griffin-Covey and Justin Hampton. With WCT company members Kevin Gouldthorpe, Jenni Bauer, Bethany Harbaugh & Robert Berry. The band includes Seth Tiven (guitarist- Dumptruck, Promise Breakers), Justin Bankston (bassist- Promise Breakers, The Paper South) and Donnie Poston (drummer- Dumptruck, Dunebuggy)

Weird City Theatre's mission is to encourage the growth of the artist and represent the uniqueness and vitality of Austin through re-envisioned classics and original works. Keeping a child-like sense of play, we focus on the process of the actor and we are playing our part to keep Austin weird!

Weird City Theatre is a sponsored project of the Greater Austin Creative Alliance, a nonprofit performing arts service organization.

The Rivals by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Weird City Theatre Company, July 16 - 26

Here's what I like about John Carroll and the Weird City Theatre Company: they have a sense of fun that's irreverent and modern, but they take their drama seriously.

Necessarily low-rent but not sloppy, the company performs with energy, confidence, and an appreciation for the text, whatever it might be. They have a taste for pop -- we've seen an adaptation of Night of the Living Dead, a faithful production of William Gillette's Sherlock Holmes, and around Halloween we'll get their take on Nosferatu, F.W. Murnau's 1921 unathorized film version of Dracula.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The Rivals from 1775 is pop of a different sort. Sheridan, born into a theatrical family and married for love. The success at Covent Garden of this, his first play, spurred him to buy out Garrick's Drury Lane and subsequently to run successfully for Parliament. It's a comedy of manners in which Jack, an artistocratic military officer, disguises his well born origins in order to court Miss Lydia Languish, a dizzy heiress beguiled by popular novels and intent on forfeiting her ample trust fund by marrying poor, for love.

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