Know Theatre Announces Miss Magnolia Beaumont Goes to Provincetown

Know Theatre has announced that Joe Hutcheson will be returning to Cincinnati to present Miss Magnolia Beaumont Goes to Provincetown. The production received the Critics’ Pick of the Fringe Award at the 2011 Cincinnati Fringe Festival and played to sold out houses during its run. Miss Magnolia will be performed at Know Theatre on January 13 & 14, 2012 at 8pm.

Southern debutante Miss Magnolia Beatrice Devareux Beaumont has choked to death on the meat of a pork rib, only to find herself suddenly inhabiting the body of a thirty-something, gay New Yorker (to whom she refers as Master Joseph) on his way to Provincetown, Massachusetts for a birthday vacation. But before Miss Beaumont can quietly get used to Master Joseph's cosmopolitan, gay lifestyle, an offensive painting suddenly jolts her into his awareness. After the initial shock and a few disagreements, the two spend the rest of their trip discussing the deeper meanings of life, why they were brought together, and why a simple kite can be such a magical thing. More than a monologue, Miss Magnolia Beaumont Goes to Provincetown is a modern comic fantasy celebrating the beauty and magic of P-town.

“What counts is not the unlikely starting point, but how one develops and delivers from the unreasonable setup. Miss Magnolia Beaumont Goes to Provincetown, written and performed by Joe Hutcheson and directed by Cheryl King, shows that style, imagination, intelligence, heart, talent and daring are what make such productions worth the gamble,” says Nicholas Korn of Cincinnati CityBeat. ” In fact, these elements make any art worth creating and sharing with an audience of strangers.”

All tickets for this performance are $12. Tickets can be purchased by visiting knowtheatre.com or by calling the box office at 513.300.KNOW (5669). Advance reservations are recommended as these performances will likely sell out.

Additional Information

Joe Hutcheson has been writing and performing solo shows in New York since 2007. His first endeavor The Purpose of Matter in the Universe appeared at Stage Left Studio as part of the 2007 Midtown International Theatre Festival, and received two Best of the Fest nominations (Best Solo Show and Best Sound Design). The following year, Joe and Cheryl King (creator and producing director of Stage Left Studio) created The Left Out Festival for emerging LGBT theatre. Joe’s solo show Miss Magnolia Beaumont Goes to Provincetown first appeared in this festival and was extended twice throughout the summer; in 2010, under the direction of Cheryl, Miss Magnolia enjoyed a critically acclaimed run at the Cherry Lane Studio with the New York International Fringe Festival and garnered a FringeNYC Overall Excellence Award. Joe holds an MFA from the University of Florida and a BFA from Cal State Fullerton. Some of Joe’s writing can be found on his blog at: www.becominghutch.blogspot.com.