Cohesion Theatre Company's NEVERWHERE Begins Today

Cohesion Theatre Company presents the final installment of their Second Season, a Baltimore premiere production of Neil Gaiman's NEVERWHERE, adapted by Robert Kauzlaric. Cohesion Co-Founder Brad Norris directs this fantasy adventure tale going up at United Evangelical Church in Canton for 13 performances, beginning today, June 2, and continuing through 19, 2016.

"Neil Gaiman's novel is one of my favorite fantasy stories of all time," says Norris. "It tells a very odd and a far reaching story that captures an entirely alternate world that is so very familiar to our own, right on the edge of where our reality ends this other world begins. We can touch it, we can taste it and smell it but we never actually get to go there until one day Richard, our unlikely hero, does by complete and total accident. This story truly is an adventure tale: a hero is discovered, a villain is (hopefully) thwarted and then there is intrigue, mystery, magic, action, fantasy and great beasts. These things abound in Gaiman's story telling and they will abound on stage with us. The completeness and the scope with which Neil Gaiman paints this world is really captivating and I think our design team is really latching onto that and we are excited to present a complete and fully realized world to you, live on stage."

A Baltimore premiere production, this modern fantasy tale takes us to the gritty and parallel world of London Below with the unwitting Richard Mayhew, who falls between the cracks in reality to end up caught in a dangerous adventure in a place familiar, foreign, and deadly. Befriending and protecting a powerful child, bargaining and bickering with the Marquis de Carabas, and hunting the great Beast of London, Richard's journey becomes one to save both his world Above, and the newly discovered world Below. Adapted from the best-selling novel by Neil Gaiman; author of American Gods, Coraline, and Sandman, Kauzlaric's adaptation was first produced in 2010 at Lifeline Theatre in Chicago, and has since seen national and international productions.

NEVERWHERE will run Thursdays through Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 4pm, June 2-19, 2016. Cohesion will be performing at United Evangelical Church (3200 Dillon Street, Baltimore, MD 21224) at the corner of East Street and Dillon Street in Canton. Patrons can park in the lot across the street connected to the former school building and enter the space through the gray doors on East Street. Tickets are $25 for Adults and $20 for Students and Seniors, and can be purchased online at cohesiontheatre.org/tickets. A special "Industry Night" performance will be held Tuesday, June 14 at 8pm. Tickets to this performance will be $15 for artists working in the Baltimore theatre community (non-industry members can purchase tickets to this performance at regular price).

With Neil Gaiman's NEVERWHERE, Cohesion is embarking on our most ambitious single production to date, and one we feel audiences will simply have a blast with. In order to achieve this production on the scale we are planning for, we are asking for some help with upfront costs, and that's where you as a fan of theater and fantasy and adventure stories can have an amazing impact on this production. To learn more about this campaign or to contribute to the world of London Below (and paying the amazing artists who inhabit it!), visit the Indiegogo page.

SHOW DETAILS:

Neil Gaiman's NEVERWHERE
Adapted by Robert Kauzlaric
Directed by Brad Norris
June 2 - 19, 2016

Thursdays - Saturdays at 8pm
Sundays at 4pm
Industry Night: Tuesday, June 14 at 8pm 3200 Dillon Street, Baltimore, MD 21224

Cast:
Joseph Coracle - Richard Mayhew
Cori Dioquino - Door
Jonas David Grey - The Marquis de Carabas
Casey Dutt - Hunter, Sylvia
Matthew Payne - Mr. Croup, Tooley
Bobby Hennenberg - Mr. Vandemar, Varney
Melanie Glickman - The Angel Islington, Gary, Lord Rat Speaker, Fop With No Name Frank Mancino - Old Bailey, The Earl, The Abbot
Wesley Poloway - Jessica, Lamia
Danielle Vitullo - Anaesthesia, Hawker, Brother Sable
Dominic Gladden - Portico, Hawker, Brother Fuliginous, Hammersmith
Zoe DiGorgio - Old Woman, Hawker, Ratspeaker

Production Team:
Brad Norris - Director
Martha Robichaud - Assistant Director Heather Peacock - Stage Manager
Logan Kauffeld - Assistant Stage Manager Kel Millionie - Set/Lighting Designer Jonah Beram - Sound Designer
Sam Kuczynski - Properties Designer
Sam Callanta - Costume Designer
Emily Jewett - Hair and Makeup Designer Jon Rubin - Fight Choreographer
Lana Riggins - Production Manager
Kris Messer - Production Dramaturg

Cohesion Theatre Company is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions for the charitable purposes of Cohesion Theatre Company must be made payable to "Fractured Atlas" and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.

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