KVPAC Presents LOVER'S QUARRELS This Weekend
By: Kelsey Denette May. 17, 2012
Translated by Richard Wilbur, the show performs this weekend and next at Katy Visual & Performing Arts Center (KVPAC) by Encore Players, Katy's premier community theatre. At its core is a young woman named Ascagne who has spent her life wearing masculine disguises for the sake of inheritance. She cleverly marries her sister Lucille's suitor Valere by disguising herself during the midnight ceremony. This sets off a hilarious chain of events that changes the lives of all those around.
Encore Players is an all-volunteer community theater organization that taps into the acting, vocal, dance and stagecraft talents of adults within the Katy-area. Either on stage or behind the scenes, Encore Players is home to those who love the theater and want to be a part of bringing that magic to life. The eclectic cast of this witty Encore Players production includes Nancy Lewin (Marinette), Rose Nurre (Metaphraste), Robert Hurlburt (Gros-Rene), Summer King (Lucile), Melanie Seidel (Frosine), Cole Pfaffenberger (Valere), Brooks Burford (Mascarille), Adrian Collinson (Polidore), Mark A. Russo (Albert), Claire Metusalem (La Rapiere), Paige Hill (Ascagne), and Carson Berry (Eraste).
Lovers’ Quarrels was Moliere’s second full-length play, a comedy filled with twists and turns, deceptions and duels ... well, almost. Moliere’s interest, in Commedia del ‘Arte, is prevalently seen through the stock characters. The servants, masters and young lovers become stereotypical characters trying to find love, duping the others that get in their way. Though the persons of this play are well provided with large personalities and qualities, it is plot, rather than character, in which the complexities lie. We discover that something happened some twenty years in the past that causes the turmoil to our young lovers, unbenounced to them ... sort of. Directed by Kimberly Glover, this production provides a fresh, new version of a classical piece because it is staged and costumed in a 1980’s rock & roll fashion with a period twist!
“Allow our characters to tell you this story of love, jealousy, and deceit- but in a slightly different manner than Moliere originally intended,” says Kimberly Glover. “The marriage of Moliere’s France and a memorable time, in the not too distant past, becomes the backdrop to this comedy in rhyming couplets.” It is a visual delight to behold and a jump ahead in set design conception of any Encore Players production to date, by KVPAC’s own Chris Donelson.
Come and enjoy an evening of live entertainment right here in Katy with us! The show is scheduled to run May 18, 19, 25 & 26 at 8:00pm and 20 & 27 at 2:00pm in the ExhibitForce Main Theatre at KVPAC, 2501 S. Mason Rd #290, Katy, TX 77450. For Katy audience members who seek an evening at the theater, they can look to Encore Players as a source to enjoy the theater in their own home town without the commute or cost involved with heading to one of downtown Houston’s theaters.
KVPAC is a 501c3 non-profit arts education organization serving the community since 2001, and is able to provide innovative and dynamic art programs like Encore Players through generous funding from Texas Commission on the Arts. Visit our website at www.kvpac.org for more information.
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