GRAY AREA Plays Aurora Theatre 10/6-30
By: Gabrielle Sierra Sep. 20, 2011
Aurora Theatre's 16th Sensational Season continues with a great new comedy about Civil War re-enactors called Gray Area by John Ahlin, running October 6 - 30, 2011. In Gray Area, a scathing theater critic and radio commentator, Sherman Farragut, takes a gratuitous swipe at Civil War re-enactors as his final public salvo. When "good ole Dixie boys" Randall, Horse and Keith read his remarks they decide they cannot let him go unchallenged. They decide to bring the windbag below the Mason-Dixon Line for retribution. This comical collision of worlds is a full out black-white, blue-gray, blue-red raging debate. Stereotypes are the biggest casualty in this delightfully uncivil comedy. This timely production coincides with Georgia's Civil War Sesquicentennial, commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War in Georgia.
About Playwright John Ahlin
Gray Area won the Virtual Theatre Project's ‘The Pen Is A Mighty Sword' international play competition, receiving highly acclaimed productions in Los Angeles and New York. Actors Theatre of Louisville 2001 In-house Play competition awarded John Ahlin first prize for his 10 minute play Nem. Mr. Ahlin has written scores of scripts for the comedy group Movie Madness, half a dozen educational plays of his have been performed around the country and his plays What the Morph Brothers Did, Death Down East and The Brain Show have all been produced. As an actor, Mr. Ahlin has appeared on Broadway in Waiting for Godot (with Bill Irwin, Nathan Lane, John Goodman and John Glover), Journey's End (2007 Tony Award for Best Revival), The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Voices in the Dark, One Mo' Time, Whoopee! and Macbeth. Off-Broadway, John portrayed Orson Welles in Austin Pendleton's Orson's Shadow and has appeared as Falstaff six times, most recently in Henry IV at the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival. His TV acting credits include Law and Order: SVU, Third Watch, and As the World Turns.
**Special Performance Thursday, October 20: Playwright and Actor John Ahlin will join the cast of Gray Area for a Post-show Discussion where they will take questions from the audience.
Producer QuoteAurora Theatre Producing Artistic Director Anthony Rodriguez on why now is the perfect time for Gray Area, "This is historically a good time to talk about stereotypes. We need for society to engage in CIVIL disagreement. From a political, religious, and sociological perspective, the news (whichever station you watch) shows that we are having difficulty listening to one another in a cordial manner. We hope by poking fun at two immovable forces, we can start to dismantle prejudice and in a sly manner and extol a little virtue of compassion."Cast & Crew
Glenn Rainey Farragut
Bryan Brendle Randall
Bart Hansard Keith
Scott Warren Horse
Ann-Carol Pence Associate Producer
Sherri Sutton Director
Katie Pelkey Stage Manager
Britt Hultgren Ramroop Production Manager
James M. Helms Technical Director
Phil Male Set Designer
Bobby Johnston Sound Designer
Rob Dillard Lighting Designer
Joanna Schmink Costume Designer
Courtney Greever Props Designer
Sarah Thomson Scenic Artist
Jonathan Fries Assistant Technical Director
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