Upcoming: Well by Lisa Kron, Different Stages, November 11 - December 3

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Lisa Kron’s

WELL

directed by Norman Blumensaadt

November 11- December 3

Thursdays - Saturdays at 8 p.m., Sundays at 7 p.m. No Performance on Thanksgiving, Thursday Nov 24 Added performance on Wednesday Nov 30

The Vortex, 2307 Manor Rd (click for map)

“Pick your Price: $15, $20, $25, $30

For tickets and information call 478-5282

Different Stages opens its 2011 - 2012 season with Lisa Kron’s comedy Well. The acclaimed writer and performer Lisa Kron’s newest work is all about her mom. It explores the dynamics of health, family and community with the story of her mother’s extraordinary ability to heal a changing neighborhood, despite her inability to heal herself. In this show, Kron asks the provocative question: Are we responsible for our own illness? But the answers she gets are much more complicated than she bargained for when the play spins dangerously out of control into riotously funny and unexpected territory.

Directed by Norman Blumensaadt (Too Many Husbands), Well features Sarah Seaton (Something Unspoken) as Lisa Kron and Jennifer Underwood (Lear) as her mother, Ann Kron. The four actors Lisa Kron has hired for this “solo show with other people in it” are Chelsea Manasseri (For Colored Girls), Phil Cole (Too Many Husbands), Jan Phillips (The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later) and Ronnie Williams (Pericles).

Tartuffe, City Theatre, July 23 - August 16

Molière was appalled and distressed when he learned that although Louis XIV had enjoyed the court performance of Tartuffe on May 12, 1664 the "Sun King" had listened to pious advisers and had forbidden any further presentations of the play.

This great comic tale of religious hypocrisy was in trouble from the start. The dramatist had produced a farce in elegant verse featuring a "holy man" intent on seduction, theft and exploitation, an adroit manipulator of religious concepts and of religious language. The court advisers were probably scandalized at the playwright's witty undermining of religiosity and some of them may have felt directly targeted.

Molière's eloquent protests went unheeded and the revised version he presented publicly three years later was immediately shut down. Not until 1669, after a delay of five years, was Tartuffe performed, apparently with the King's permission. It became the most successful and most profitable of Molière's plays.

Charles P. Stites serves as something of a Molière for the City Theatre's production of Tartuffe. He drafted this text, directed it and stars as Tartuffe.

And what better setting for religious hypocrisy (via tele-evangelism) than modern Central Texas?

Click to read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .