Waiting for Godot-Miami's Mad Cat Theatre Company
By: Beau Higgins Sep. 22, 2005
MIAMI LIGHT PROJECT'S
LIGHT BOX STUDIO PERFORMANCE SERIES PRESENTS
A Mad Cat Theatre Company Production of
Samuel Beckett's
Waiting for Godot
Series with Mad Cat Theatre Company's production of Waiting for
Godot by Samuel Beckett. Waiting for Godot is one of the world's
most celebrated plays since World War 2. The tragicomedy by Nobel
Prize winning Samuel Beckett raises the question; what does it all
mean? But the message of hope amid chaos and despair is what Mad Cat
is focusing on in these troubled times in the wake of the shattered
lives from Hurricane Katrina. A percentage of their total revenue will
go to Noah's Wish, an organization dedicated to the aid of abandoned
or misplaced animalsMad Cat, a local theatre company that specializes in it's own brand
of irreverent humor and original material was founded by
actor/writer/director Paul Tei in the fall of 2000 with a cast and
design team made up of Miami-based artists. Since their inaugural
production of Helluva Halloween in October of 2000, they have been
named "Best Fringe Theater" by the Miami New Times in 2003 and 2005
and have brought South Florida four seasons worth of world premieres
including Here in My Car (Best Stage Comedy- Miami New Times),
Portrait (Curtain Up Awards- Best New Work, Best Director, Best
Supporting Actor; Carbonell Award- Best Lighting; Carbonell
Nomination- Best New Work), Tin Box Boomerang (Carbonell Award- Best
New Work; Curtain Up Nomination- Best New Work), Cope (Best Original
Play, Best Lighting Design, Best Sound Design Runner Up- Miami Sun
Post), Fell in Love with a Girl (Curtain Up Nomination- Best New
Work, Best Original Play Runner Up- Miami Sun Post, Carbonell
Nomination- Best New Work), Trembling Hands (Best Original Play
Runner Up- Miami Sun Post), and most recently, Artful Dodgers by Mad
Cat Founder and Artistic Director Paul Tei and the Florida Premiere
of Matt and Ben.
Presents
A Mad Cat Theatre Company Production of
Samuel Beckett's
Waiting for Godot
Wednesdays through Saturdays 8pm
October 14th – November 5th
At
The Light Box
3000 Biscayne BoulevardGeneral Admission is $20
Students are $10 with valid I.D.
Friday & Saturday All Tickets $20
No reservations. Cash only, doors open @ 7:30
Call (305) 576-6377 for info
Special Opening Night
Friday October 14th
@ The Light Box
Tickets are $40
Includes complimentary food and alcohol, music and a meet and greet
with the cast following the performance.
Festivities start @ 7:00 PM
Curtain @ 8:00 PM
To purchase tickets with a credit card for Opening Night, call The
Miami Light Project
@ 305-576-4350Waiting for Godot stars Mad Cat company member, Joe Kimble( Matt and
Ben, Artful Dodgers, Trembling Hands, Fell in Love with a Girl,
Cope, Shoot)the return of original company member Michael Vines(
Seventy Scenes of Halloween, Portrait, Here in my Car, Shepherd's
Pie, Helluva Halloween) returning guest actor Erik Fabregat( Action,
Betty's Summer Vacation, Cope, Here in my Car), and Scott Genn.
Cat Theatre Company's award winning resident designers: set design
by Paul Tei, lighting design by Travis Neff, costumes by Karelle
Levy and sound design by Natan Samuels.
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