Posted in Performance on August 22nd, 2009 by PURE Theatre – Be the first to comment
THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING
by Joan Didion
based on her memoir
featuring Lucille Arrington Keller
directed by Sharon Graci
Joan Didion’s best-selling memoir recounts an almost unfathomable period in her life as she grappled with her husband’s sudden death and daughter’s illness. This stage adaptation captures the compassion, humor, and bewilderment of a fiercely intelligent woman as her world lurches suddenly from the ordinary to the unimaginable. Filled with raw candor, this “unmissable theatre” (Variety) is a love letter to a child and a tribute to an extraordinary, unconventional marriage, all told by a brilliant storyteller with a gift for the absurd.
“Insistently hypnotic.” —The New York Times
August 28–September 19, 2009
Upper Lance Hall: 150 Meeting Street
$15–$30
Brown Paper Tickets
24-hour box office: 800.838.3006
Info: 843.723.4444
Pay-What-You-Can Preview August 27 at 7:30 p.m.
Performances August 28, 29, September 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 17, 18 & 19. All performances at 7:30 p.m. except Sunday September 6 at 2:00 p.m. (Bring Your Own Baby).
Wednesdays $20, Thursdays & Sundays $25, Fridays & Saturdays $30, Students $15
Posted in Ensemble, Graphics on June 28th, 2009 by PURE Theatre – Be the first to comment
Will Northcut, Sullivan Graci-Hamilton, and Addison Dent in SPEECH & DEBATE by Stephen Karam, July 30–August 15, 2009
Co-directed by Sharon Graci and David Mandel, Speech & Debate is PURE’s 2009 Summer Slam production. Featuring Addison Dent (A Flea in Her Ear at The Village Playhouse), Sullivan Graci-Rogers (Hogs and A Waffle House Christmas with PURE), and Will Northcut (Rabbit Hole at PURE), the play is a hilarious look at three misfit teenagers in Salem, Oregon.
“A triumph . . . hilarious, cliche-free, and immensely entertaining” —The New York Times
“savvy comedy . . . bristling with vitality, wicked humor, terrific dialogue and a direct pipeline into the zeitgeist of contemporary youth . . . Karam has a keen ear for how teens talk, move and think, how they view each other and the adult world” —Variety
“One of the top ten plays of the year . . . Even if you’re not fluent in IM, you’ll LOL at this subversive comedy . . . Mordant misfits Diwata, Solomon, and Howie come together via circumstance and learn valuable lessons: Sometimes you’ve got to ‘hold it in,’ as The Crucible‘s plucky Puritan Mary tells a sexually confused Abe Lincoln. And sometimes you need to crank up, strip down to a nude body stocking, make like Martha Graham, and let it out.” —Entertainment Weekly
Posted in Writing on April 30th, 2009 by Spencer Deering – Be the first to comment
Paul Whitty as Luggs in Sheep's Clothing by Spencer Deering
If you can get an educator drunk enough on a Friday night, even the best of ‘em will admit that they teach for three reasons: June, July, and August. Sure it can be a pain to drag kids toward the intellectual, spiritual, or physical promise land hour after hour, but it’s comforting to know that even the worst days end with a bell at 3:00. (I can already hear the English majors’ howls: “What about paper grading, huh? Committee meetings? Parent/teacher conferences??” OK, OK, you’re right: tough days can drag on until 4:00.) read more »
Posted in Performance on April 22nd, 2009 by PURE Theatre – Be the first to comment
From John Stoehr’s UNSCRIPTED Charleston City Paper:
The Tragedian
Rodney Lee Rogers reprises the much-missed one-man-show, The Tragedian, about the life and embattled times of the one and only Edwin Booth. Yes, that Booth. The brother of that guy who shot the 16th President of the United States. This all-too-brief run begins tomorrow night and ends Saturday. Rogers debuted the show last year and performed it again during the 2008 Piccolo Spoleto Festival. We hoped it would appear for a second year at Piccolo, but Rogers has other plans with the premiere of another one-man-show. Something about a pirate. Anyway, if you are normally gun-shy about paying the big bucks to see theater but would like to see it if and only if the theater performance is of some quality, then you really need to set aside time to see this pay-what-you-can night. It’s touching, deep, and, um, tragic. For more, call (843) 723-4444 or visit www.puretheatre.org. —JS
Posted in Performance on March 18th, 2009 by PURE Theatre – Be the first to comment
Sharon Graci in Hogs
Jon Santiago of the City Paper wrote a thoughtful rave review of Hogs. Rather than us pork chopping it up into pull quotes, read the whole thing on the City Paper website. Then come on back here.
