Spotlighters Theatre presents Charles Ludlam's STAGE BLOOD from Friday, November 26 through Sunday, December 19, 2010 with Fri & Sat performances at 8pm, Sun performances at 2pm and one Thursday Performance, Dec 16 at 8pm.
STAGE BLOOD is written by Charles Ludlam and directed by Michael Spellman. Spotlighters Theatre and director, Michael Spellman, bring a hilarious farce by Charles Ludlam to life at the intimate theatre on Saint Paul Street. Ludlam, entices and intrigues the audience to keep up between the Shakespearean sonnets and his well-placed slapstick humor. Spellman keys on the dynamics of the father-son relationship and real life issues, their ups and downs, both in reality and through the Shakespearean excerpts. Spellman emphasizes that the audience should relax and enjoy the tantalizing mix of comedy with the reality of Shakespeare, all the while taking in a great story. With over 40 years of theatre experience, it's hard to argue with Spellman.The Spotlighters production features favorite actors from across Baltimore.
Jeffrey Coleman (Jim Jenkins), just seen in the Baltimore Playwrights Festival new work production, Hammarskjold; and in Cabaret both at Spotlighters.First produced in 1975, Stage Blood was the brain child of playwright and actor Charles Ludlam, founder of The Ridiculous Theatrical Company. The Theatre of the Ridiculous was a theatrical movement which often consisted of high and low theatrical forms of the past and present (Shakespeare, opera and film noire, to name a few) and employed a performance style that was based on camp, cheap tricks, cheap theatrics and the grotesque.
One of the main goals of The Ridiculous Theatrical Company was to develop new works that would challenge and distort the modern theater as well as put a new twist on classical forms. Spotlighters and Spellman are hoping that this will be the effect Stage Blood has on the audience in Mount Vernon.
Spotlighters seeks to present a varied menu of theatrical offerings, and it is quite ironic that Shakespeare's Twelfth Night has just closed in mid-November. This production will build on the humor and comedy of Shakespeare's comedy and go one more, taking one of the tragedies and making it into a farce. This show will be a product of actors, designers, and technicians working their creative muscles and having a lot of fun doing so! This show will have the audience in belly laughs and giggles! What more can you expect from a show that has a toilet on-stage!?
Stage Blood will open on Black Friday, November 26, just in time to laugh away all the stress of the busiest shopping day of the year!
There will be one TEN SPOT THURSDAY performance on Thursday, December 16 at 8:00pm. ALL TICKETS just $10 on Ten Spot Thursday at Spotlighters.
Tickets are $20 for adults, $18 for seniors, and $16 for students.
Order online at www.spotlighters.org. For more information, call (410) 752-1225.
Tickets: $20 adults / $18 seniors / $16 students
Order online at www.spotlighters.org
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