CRY HAVOC!, THE PRICE and More Set for Franklin Stage Company's 2017 Season

Franklin Stage Company has announced its 21st Season in the historic Chapel Hall. Audiences are in for a summer of exciting, professional, admission-free theater!

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THE DRAMATIC GESTURE: PAINTINGS OF David Byrd
July 1
Saturday, 5 to 7 PM
Art Opening
The iconic paintings of the former Delaware County resident whose sculpture, drawings and watercolors have been exhibited across the US. Presented as part of the 22nd Annual Stagecoach Run Art Festival. Sponsored by the Erna McReynolds & Tom Morgan Artists-in-Collaboration Fund.

CRY HAVOC!
July 7-9
Friday & Saturday @7:30 PM, Sunday @5 PM
Written & Performed by Stephan Wolfert
With Material by William Shakespeare
Directed by Eric Tucker
After six years in the Army, Stephan Wolfert hopped off an Amtrak deep in the mountains of Montana and found himself at a performance of Richard III that would change his life forever. Using Shakespeare's famous battle speeches to illuminate his own military experience, Wolfert reveals the journey from civilian to warrior and back again. Sponsored in part by the A. Lindsay & Olive B. O'Connor Foundation.

THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR, A STAGED READING WITH MUSIC
July 13-16
Thursday-Saturday @7:30 PM, Sunday @5PM
Written by Nikolai Gogol, Freely Adapted by Oded Gross
We open on the scene of a city council meeting: Mayor Anton alerts his cronies that their well-lined pockets are at risk. Seems a government inspector is headed their way to expose bad government-and he's traveling incognito. When the bureaucrats mistake Klestakov, a lazy narcissist heading home to beg his father for cash, for the covert Government Inspector, favors of all kinds are exchanged freely. Oded Gross' rollicking, saucy and thoroughly modern adaptation is a biting commentary on all things bureaucratic.

DOKTOR KABOOM: LOOK OUT! SCIENCE IS COMING!
July 21-23
Friday & Saturday @7:30 PM, Sunday @5 PM
Written & Performed by David Epley
Doktor Kaboom is an over-the-top German physicist with a passion for science that knows no bounds. Sporting chrome goggles, an orange lab coat, motorcycle boots, and wicked cool hair, Doktor Kaboom travels the world, thrilling adults and children alike with an explosive comedic style and an improvisational skill that ensures no two shows are ever the same. Nothing says science like KABOOM! Sponsored in part by the Joan Rothenberg Family Foundation.

Orson Welles/SHYLOCK
A Docu-Fantasy Radio Play
July 27-August 6 (2 weekends!)
Thursdays-Saturdays @7:30 PM, Sundays @5 PM
Written & Directed by Matt Chiorini
This exhilarating piece tells the unbelievable and mostly true story of Welles' many attempts to play one of Shakespeare's most compelling and controversial creations...and the haunting and heartbreaking wasy his life overlapped with the iconic character just out of his reach.

LISBETH FIRMIN: PAINTER/PRINTMAKER
August 5
Saturday, 3 to 5 PM
Art Opening
Lisbeth Firmin, known for her urban landscapes with people, bought a store front on Main Street in Franklin NY in 2000, leaving NYC after 25 years. Firmin produced hundreds of paintings and monotypes throughout this fruitful period in her career. Sponsored by the Erna McReynolds & Tom Morgan Artists-in-Collaboration Fund.

MAGDALEN
August 10-13
Thursday-Saturday @7:30 PM, Sunday @5 PM
Written & Performed by Erin Layton
Directed & Developed by Julie Kline
A fictional exploration of the women and children who toiled in the real-life Magdalene Laundries as slave laborers in mid-twentieth century Ireland, and of the complicity of church officials in hiding their tragic stories. Winner, Best Documentary Script, United Solo Festival 2013. Sponsored by the Tri-M Foundation.

Arthur Miller's THE PRICE
An FSC Production
August 18-September 3, Preview August 17
Wednesdays-Saturdays @7:30 PM, Sundays @5 PM
Directed by Leslie Noble
With Patricia Buckley, Sean Cullen, Charlie Kevin & Robert Zukerman

In Arthur Miller's masterpiece, Victor and Walter Franz, brothers estranged for sixteen years, meet again in the attic of a brownstone slated for demolition, to sell the remainder of their parents' belongings. Victor's wife Esther and Gregory Solomon, an aging antiques dealer who has come to make an offer for the furniture, witness the long-awaited reunion. The brothers' vastly different perspectives on their family and their lives, combined with the observations of Esther and Solomon, give rise to compelling questions: What is true and what are the lies we tell ourselves about our family and our history? If we could see the difference, how would it affect our choices, if at all? Miller's play explores the human toll of regret and guilt, and our shared desire to reclaim the opportunities lost to time.

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Admission is free. Limited seating. Reservations recommended. Reserve at www.franklinstagecompany.org or call 607-829-3700. FSC is located in Chapel Hall at 25 Institute Street in Franklin, NY 13775. For more details about FSC, Chapel Hall & our 21st season, or to donate online, visit the website.

Since 1997, FSC has produced classical plays and new works adapted from classic texts, and presented the work of artists in a variety of disciplines. FSC is proud to contribute to the growth of the arts in the Western Catskills. Programming at FSC is made possible, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

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