Coach House TheatrePresentsDrowning SorrowsbyDouglas PostCoach House Theatre
continues its 80th anniversary season with the affecting and
thought-provoking Drowning Sorrows by
critically-acclaimed playwright Douglas Post. The show opens Thursday,
Jan. 17 and runs through Saturday, Feb. 2, 2008.
The show stars Emily
Demiray, Jonathan Fletcher, Bob Kenderes, Bettina Steinmetz and Richard
Worswick.
Duncan Crawford
(played by Richard Worswick), a bartender on the island of St. John, is
considering abandoning his bar for greater adventure when an heiress
from Manhattan, Emily Miles (played by Emily Demiray), wanders into his
establishment. She begins to tell him the story of her life: how she
was left at the altar at the tender age of 19 by a fiancé who
mysteriously disappeared, how she has spent the past 20 years searching
for this man, and how she now believes that she has found him in
Duncan. Duncan denies this, but Emily is certain.
The Chicago Reader
calls Drowning
Sorrows a
kind of “dramatic Rorschach test” where the Emmy-nominated playwright
creates a “psychological puzzler” and “forces audiences to fill in some
tantalizing blanks.”
Drowning Sorrows marks the
directorial debut of Ron Cuirle, a familiar face to Coach House
audiences from his performances in Custer, Hay Fever,
Don’t Drink the Water and Picasso at the Lapin
Agile. Mr.
Cuirle has performed and starred in numerous plays throughout
Northeastern Ohio since 1993.
Drowning Sorrows will be presented
Jan. 17-Feb. 2, 2008. Curtain times are Thursday, Friday and Saturday
at 8 p.m., with Sunday matinées at 2:30 p.m. The house opens a half
hour before the show, and the box office opens one hour before the
show. Coach House Theatre is located at 732 W. Exchange Street, in
Akron, next to the Akron Woman’s City Club. Tickets for Drowning Sorrows go on sale Jan. 3.
Prices are $15 for adults, and $6 for students (with valid ID) and
children. Reservations are recommended by calling our box office at
330-434-7741 or visit www.coachhousetheatre.org
online for more information.
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