Treehouse Acting Company Announces Their 2011 - 12 Season

The Treehouse Acting Company Announces Their 2011-2012 Season

August 25 - September 24
AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY
by Tracy Letts
The grand opening of CAST's new performance spaces in NoDa, August: Osage County is the regional premiere of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize-winning play about that tells the bitingly funny and sensationally entertaining tale of the Weston family of Pawhuska, Oklahoma.

October 13 - November 5
DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE
adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher
Jeffrey Hatcher's expressionistic stage adaptation of the 1886 novella will mesmerize audiences in this Halloween season production. This retelling of a classic tale will be augmented by CAST's special brand of experiential theatre, which will serve as an apt backdrop for a chilling fun house ride through a haunted psyche.

November 24 - December 25
A TUNA CHRISTMAS
by Jaston Williams, Joe Sears and Ed Howard
This raucous comedy features two actors playing over 20 different roles, rapid-fire costume changes, and even a UFO. An affectionate but biting satire of life in the "third smallest town in Texas," A Tuna Christmas has become a crowd-pleasing Charlotte holiday tradition.

January 12 - February 11
JACK GOES BOATING
by Robert Glaudin
This unconventional romantic comedy set in the midst of working-class New York City life received an enthusiastic reception at New York's Public Theatre when it opened in 2007 with Philip Seymour Hoffman in the lead role. CAST's production will investigate the lives of limousine drivers Clyde and Jack, and their love interests, Lucy and Connie.

February 23 - March 24
RACE
by David Mamet
CAST is honored to have been selected to produce the regional premiere of David Mamet's riveting new play for an electrifying spring production run. In Mamet's unmistakable voice, RACE explores what lurks beneath the surface in the minds of three attorneys, two Black and one White, as they defend a white man charged with a horrific crime.

April 12 - May 12
FLOYD COLLINS
book by Tina Landau; music & lyrics by Adam Guettel
CAST is partnering with Opera Carolina to present a musical on its stages for the first time in its history. The story is based on the real-life Floyd Collins, who became trapped while exploring a cave in Kentucky during the winter of 1925. Wedged by a small rock, Mr. Collins struggles to survive for two weeks under the glare of the first modern media frenzy.

May 24 - June 23
The Edge OF OUR BODIES
by Adam Rapp
This one-woman show focuses on a sixteen year-old girl who leaves her New England prep school and heads into New York to tell her boyfriend she is pregnant. An intimate and honest portrayal, this play captures a young woman at the threshold of vulnerability and experience, achingly articulate about all she cannot know or control.

This Weekend The Treehouse Acting Company presents:

James Saba's endearing drama pits two groups of kids against each other in a competition to determine who has the "cooler" treehouse. The two leaders enlist teams and attempt to outdo each other. Tension mounts until the members of both sides decide that the situation is out of hand. They conspire together to convince their leaders that this "battle" is wrong. Also at the director's helm, and wiser than his years, Matt Mitchell says that the characters and the audience, "Learn about friendship, allegiances, and finally, peacemaking. Maybe that's a good lesson for all of us whether you're in the 8th grade performing in a play or running the world."

Performances:
July 22, 23, 24 - Fri, Sat, Sun - at CAST-NoDa
Online reservations - CLICK FOR TIX
Box Office: 704-455-8542

Abby Corrigan and Matt Mitchell, both rising 8th graders at Northwest School of the Arts, co-founded The Treehouse Acting Company, a non-profit theatre with the unique criteria of being for kids and by kids . . . or rather, young artists!

Meet a group of local actors who have written and created an evening of sketchy sketch comedy that's at once smart and silly! Join them at their inaugural show  "Etch-A-Sketch"

Performances at CAST-NoDa:
Friday & Saturday, July 29 & 30
Two shows (2!) each night at 8:00 and 10:30 PM
Online reservations - SKETCH TIX
Box Office: 704-455-8542

Read about the Cast & Crew at DysfunctionalFigurines.com

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