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

[Ann Sellers]

I'll still be in Michigan on the 14th.

Ann

On May 5, 2010, at 3:57 PM, Schwols, Keith C wrote:

> Who’s in and when?
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> 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
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> "...haunting, inspired, and absolutely glorious."
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> -New York Times
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> At its heart, openstage etc's production of Shining City is a ghost  
> story inhabited by apparitions of heartbreak and betrayal.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> "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."
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> McPherson forces these characters out of their safe self-absorption  
> and makes them talk with - rather than at - one another.
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> "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."
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