REFLECTIONS: An Evening Of Short Plays Comes To Resonance Ensemble 5/21-6/6

Continuing its seventh season, Resonance Ensemble (Eric Parness, Artistic Director; Rachel Reiner, Managing Director) is proud to announce the third production in the 2008-09 season. Reflections: An Evening of Short Plays, will include the world premieres of Their Town by Alvin Eng, What Happened Then by Michael Feingold and Compromise by Ian Strasfogel, with revivals of Catastrophe by Samuel Beckett and Swan Song by Anton Chekhov (with a translation by Marian Fell and adaptation by Eric Parness). Resonance Ensemble is a Theatre-in-Residence at Theatre Row (410 West 42 Street), this production will take place in the Lion Theatre beginning Saturday, May 16, opening on Thursday, May 21 and will run through June 6, 2009. Tickets are $18 and can be purchased by calling 212 279 4200 or visiting www.ticketcentral.com.

Resonance Ensemble's Artistic Director, Eric Parness will direct a cast that includes David Arthur Bachrach (Film One Hit Wonders) Todd Butera (Film: Orson Welles Sells His Soul to the Devil), Bill Fairbairn (The Triumph of Love), Nicole Godino (Resonance Ensemble's The Lower Depths) and Christine Verleny (Play Ball!: A Trilogy of Baseball Films) in Reflections: An Evening of Short Plays, that explores the timely themes of life, theatre, and what comes next.

Inspired by Thornton Wilder's Our Town, Alvin Eng's Their Town, depicts a man and his nemesis meeting in the afterlife as they struggle to find true redemption.

Inspired by an 18th Century narrative, Michael Feingold's What Happened Then utilizes dramatic storytelling to reveal how the fates of two men were forever intertwined by a series of unlikely coincidences.

Ian Strasfogel's Compromise explores the relationship between a theatrical director and producer working on a production of Samuel Beckett's Catastrophe as they try to balance artistic integrity with commercialism.

Samuel Beckett's Catastrophe utilizes a metaphoric relationship between an actor and his director to comment on themes of political power, manipulation and oppression.

In Anton Chekhov's Swan Song, an aging actor at the end of his career reenacts passages from Shakespeare, hoping to make peace with what he has sacrificed for a life in the theatre.

REFLECTIONS: AN EVENING OF SHORT PLAYS

Directed by Eric Parness

Including the works of Beckett, Chekhov, Eng, Feingold, Strasfogel.

Begins May 16 - June 6; Opening Thursday, May 21, 2009

Performances schedule: Wednesday - Saturday at 8PM, Sunday at 3PM

Added Performance Monday, May 18 at 7PM; No Performance on Wednesday, May 20

Tickets are $18 and can be purchased at Ticket Central by phone 212 279 4200 or visit www.ticketcentral.com

For more information about Resonance Ensemble please visit www.ResonanceEnsemble.org

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