Horse Head Opens Season with Reading of EVOCATION TO VISIBLE APPEARANCE

Horse Head Theatre Co. (HH) is proud to open our 9th Season with a free staged reading of EVOCATION TO VISIBLE APPEARANCE by Mark Schultz at Chelsea Market Theater (home of Classical Theatre Company) on Saturday, July 21, 2018 at 8pm, directed by Jeff Miller . Dive into the void with this new black comedy, including a striking lighting design and a roaring heavy-metal.

You wanna know what the future looks like? Samantha does ( Tanith Albright ). Seventeen, maybe pregnant and hopelessly alone, Sam can't fight the feeling that a dark force is pushing her towards disaster. Her dad ( Greg Dean) means well but is literally (and figuratively) asleep -- her big sister ( Rachael Logue) doesn't mean well and isn't apologizing for it - and her boyfriend? ( Ben Hudson ) He's got a bright future that does NOT include Sam, or their hypothetical unborn child. Then Sam meets Hudson ( Gabriel Regojo ), a Satan-loving heavy-metal wannabe musician, who seems to understand her pain -- and more importantly, shares her crippling sense of impending doom. Clouds gather, lighting strikes and heavy metal rocks in this daring, new, and musically-charged play about the void in all of us.

Schultz's dark wit and rich characters have established him as a Houston favorit e (author of The Blackest Shore and Everything Will Be Different: A Br ief History of Helen of Troy). EVOCATION TO VISIBLE APPEARANCE is Schultz' newest work. Commissioned by The Actors Theatre of Louisville, EVOCATION doesn't invoke the devil - it is the devil himself. Schultz, who is also an Episcopal priest, explains, "I was thinking about the various depictions of the Devil in literature. He's often a very charming figure, seductive and witty, but I don't think that gets it quite right. [...] I think there's another part that has to do with absence, a void - not in the sense of something that's beyond our comprehension, but just nothingness." Schultz set out to stage this void: "... what would it be to write a p lay that wasn't about the Devil, but somehow was the Devil?"

Going above and beyond most Houston staged readings, Horse Head has secured permission to present this staged reading with selected design elements, including Lighting Design by J. Mitchell Cronin and Sound Design by Jon Harvey.

Press tickets are available. To request seats, email horseheadtheatreco@gmail.com or tashagorel@gmail.com

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