Charlie Bethel Returns to Theatre Project

Extraordinary solo performer Charlie Bethel returns to Theatre Project!

The Call of the Wild

by Jack London

Adapted and Performed by Charlie Bethel

January 12 - 29

Theatre Project welcomes back audience favorite Charlie Bethel, with his brand new solo adaptation of Jack London's The Call of the Wild, for 3 weeks, January 12 - 29.

Jack London's The Call of the Wild stands tall as an American metaphor for what we will never be, and what we could be, and what we will be.

Buck, the hundred and forty pound dog, gets, quite literally, sold up the river from an idyllic dog's life in sunny California into a cold, dark, Alaskan slavery, is beaten, overworked, starved and neglected, jumps every hoop a dog could possibly jump, until in a narrow escape from an icy death, a woodsman takes him in, granting him healing and freedom and friendship.

But Buck hears the sounds of wolves in the snow and, drawn to them by unseen forces, follows the call. He leaves death and suffering behind and embraces the romantic and beautiful uncertainty of his freedom, with only the starlight and the aurora as his witness.

Charlie Bethel (Beowulf, The Odyssey, The Seven Poor Travellers) returns to Theatre Project to bring this classic story to life as only he can.

The Call of the Wild

January 12 - 29, 2017

Showtimes:

Thursdays - Saturdays @ 8pm

Sundays @ 3pm

Tickets

General Admission - $23

Seniors/Artists/Military - $18

Students - $13

About the Artist

Charlie Bethel is an actor/writer based in New York City. He's also worked as a director, stage manager, producer, electrician, milliner, and properties and set dressing artist. His solo performances have played coast to coast at numerous venues, among them, Cincinnati Playhouse, Clay Center for the Arts Sciences (Charleston, WV), a couple of Fringe Festivals, Joseph Campbell's Centenary Celebration at the Esalen Institute (Big Sur, CA-it was a blast, ask him about it!), and Cape May Stage (Cape May, NJ).

Other theaters where he's worked: The Guthrie Theater, Trinity Rep, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Minnesota Shakespeare Project, Southwest Shakespeare Company, North Carolina Shakespeare Festival, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, Minnesota Opera, Opera Memphis, Steppenwolf, Econo-Art Theater Company, Red Bones, Next Theater Company, Apple Tree Theatre, The Jungle Theater, The Children's Theatre Company, Illusion Theater, Trinity Ensemble, and CalibanCo.

Outside the theater, Charlie has been a writer for Red Farm Films, a filthy joke generator for Innovisions Greeting Card Company, a seamanship instructor, a cook, a gardener, a florist, and a surveyor of graveyards. A native Southerner, Charlie is a graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts, and he comes from a long line of talkers.

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