[Childfree] FW: 'Shining City' tells a haunting and glorious ghost story

[Schwols, Keith C]

Who's in and when?

I'd suggest Friday May 14th.
]<eith


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From: OpenStage Theatre [mailto:brenna at openstagetheatre.org]
Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 3:14 PM
To: Schwols, Keith C
Subject: 'Shining City' tells a haunting and glorious ghost story




"...haunting, inspired, and absolutely glorious."
-New York Times


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May 8 - 30
Fridays & Saturdays at 8pm
Sunday Matinees
May 16, 23 & 30 at 2pm

Pay What You Can Performance
Thursday, May 20 7:30pm
cash or check only at the door;
no advance sales
Childcare Night Friday, May 21
Childcare offered by
Young People's Learning Center
209 E Plum (970) 482-1212




At its heart, openstage etc's production of Shining City is a ghost story inhabited by apparitions of heartbreak and betrayal.

Award winning playwright Conor McPherson sets his latest work in present-day Dublin, where widower John seeks help from Ian, a former priest turned therapist. John has begun seeing the ghost of his late wife, a lapsed Catholic. Terrified, John has abandoned the house they shared and taken up residence in a bed and breakfast. He is desperate for help but Ian has his own troubles, including a new baby and a crumbling relationship.

What begins as an unusual encounter soon becomes a desperate, intimate struggle between the living and the dead; a struggle that shapes and defines both men for the rest of their lives.

"McPherson's genius lies in his ability to make specters not just of John's wife, but of things like Catholicism, marriage and guilt," said Matthew G. Smith, who is co-directing the play with Emelie Borello." He uses no gimmicks, no contrived situations, just beautiful language that frames his characters and script."

OpenStage produced McPherson's The Weir in 2004, in which the Irish playwright addressed similar issues of Catholicism, supernatural superstitions and the emotions that haunt our everyday lives.

Although there are never more than two characters onstage at the same time, the play is dense with lives that intertwine without truly touching. Loneliness is what binds these intimate strangers.

McPherson forces these characters out of their safe self-absorption and makes them talk with - rather than at - one another.

"I'd like audiences to leave with an appreciation for the here and now; to not be afraid of what we can't change and focus on the things we can," said Smith. "All of us can relate to the ghosts of our past and the ghosts of our future, but McPherson shows us the key is to live in the now."






Tickets are $14 all ages

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