Walden Theatre Alumni Return To Host Summer Stock Festival 7/9 Thru 8/8

Four Walden Theatre Alumni are returning this summer to produce a six week long summer stock festival, consisting of three shows: Art, by Tony Award winning playwright Yasmina Reza, Betrayal by Harold Pinter and The Pavilion, by Craig Wright. The plays will be directed by Lucas Adams, Sharon Kinnison, and Mark Sawyer-Daily respectively. Walden Theatre invites alumni back each summer to teach an advanced acting intensive as well as produce works that they find stimulating and artistically challenging. These summer productions enable Louisville's young theater artists to showcase their collegiate training to the public. Hailing from Northern Illinois University, DePauw University, and DePaul University, this year's alumni have spent the past year in some of the most rigorous theater programs in the nation and are ready to unleash their skills at home. This company is a reunion of some of Walden Theatre's best and brightest performers including Adam Brown (2007 ESU Winner), Elliot Cornett, Laura Durham, and Ben Park. The Festival opens July 9th and runs through August 8th with late seating performances on Friday and Saturday nights.

ART-French playwright Yasmina Reza garnered international acclaim with Art (1994), for which she received the Lawrence Olivier Award for best comedy and the Tony Award for best play, as well as Moliere awards for best author, best play, and best production. The play explores the cataclysmic effect on three friends after the purchase of an expensive work of abstract "art."

Betrayal-is inspired by Pinter's clandestine extramarital affair with BBC Television presenter Joan Bakewell. Pinter's usage of reverse chronology in structuring the plot is innovative. The plot of Betrayal exposes different permutations of unfaithfulness and kinds of betrayals occurring over a period of nine years, relating to a seven-year affair involving a married couple, Emma and Robert, and Robert's "close friend" Jerry.

The Pavilion-This play brings together two high school sweethearts at their twenty-year reunion. After not having seen each other since they were seventeen, the two are forced to work out the details of their separation and their lingering feelings for each other.

Performance Dates:

Art: July 9 @ 7:30pm and July 10 & 11 @ 9:30pm

Betrayal: July 23 @ 7:30pm & July24, 25 @ 9:30pm

The Pavilion: August 6@ 7:30pm & August 7, 8 @ 9:30pm

Walden Theatre, 1123 Payne Street
Single Tickets:
$10 for adults, $8 for students

See all three shows for one low price!
Festival Ticket:
$24 for adults, $18 for students

 

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