Cesear's Forum Presents Foote's THE ACTOR and Miller's ELEGY FOR A LADY

Cesear's Forum, Cleveland's small professional minimalist theatre, will present two American one-act plays in a May/June production run at it's Kennedy's Down Under, PlayhouseSquare venue: Horton Foote's THE ACTOR and Arthur Miller's ELEGY FOR A LADY. The two Pulitzer prize winning playwrights (the former relatively obscure, the latter celebrated  and controversial), are noted for realistic portrayals of life. In these two semi-autobiographical plays, the past works upon the present in distinctive narratives that are whimsical, psychological and literary.

Horton Foote's THE ACTOR concerns a young man in the midst of the Great Depression, who wants to go to acting school but must prove, to himself and others, the merits of such a choice. Arthur
Miller's ELEGY FOR A LADY confronts illness as part of an ongoing extra-marital affair and examines the depth of feeling for the couple involved. Both plays examine life choices and resonate with longing and the need to belong.

Arthur Miller is probably best known for his earliest work; DEATH OF A SALESMAN, ALL MY SONS, THE CRUCIBLE and his screenplay; THE MISFITS. Horton Foote for; A TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL, THE YOUNG MAN FROM ATLANTA and his screenplays; TENDER MERCIES and the Oscar winning adaptation of Harper Lee's TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD.

Cesear's Forum continues it's mission of interpreting unusual or lesser known plays and sharing those perceptions regionally. Flouting the conventional equation of size with importance, these major American playwright's smaller genre plays focus on the quiet, artful balances of everyday minutiae and an ability to create stories that quickly express  the deepest meanings of struggle.

Horton Foote‘s THE ACTOR and Arthur Miller's ELEGY FOR A LADY, Friday & Saturday at 8 p.m., May 21st through June 26th, Sunday Matinée, June 6th at 3 p.m. All seats $15. Performances at Kennedy's Down Under, Playhouse Square Center, 1501 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland. Call 216-241-6000 or www.playhousesquare.org.

 

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