Theater-Goers to Receive Halle Berry Perfume at the Solo Show MULATTO SAGA

Oscar Winning Actress Halle Berry's portable perfume Pure Orchid will be gifted to the audience of solo show Mulatto Saga while supplies last.

Mulatto Saga is directed by award-winning Hollywood Filmmaker Charles Burnett and stars Juliette Fairley.

"It is an honor to have Ms. Berry's perfume as a gift for the audience of my solo show. I am very grateful to have her support," says Fairley.

Mulatto Saga opens at Manhattan's Richmond Shepard Theatre on Saturday October 23 at 5:45pm and runs Fridays and Saturdays through November 21, 2010. The Richmond Shepard Theatre is located at 309 East 26 Street at 2nd Avenue. Saturday show time is 5:45pm and Sunday show time is 7pm. Mulatto Saga completes its run in Los Angeles on Saturday Oct. 16 and Saturday Nov. 13 at No Ho Stages, 4934 Lankershim Blvd in North Hollywood.

In New York, tickets are $15 when purchased in advance online at www.theatermania.com or by calling 1-866-811-4111. At the door, tickets are $20. In Los Angeles, tickets can be purchased www.brownpapertickets.com.

Mulatto Saga is Miss Fairley's 3rd solo show. Her first one woman show Mulatto's Dilemma won the African American Playwrights Exchange Award for Best Actress in 2008 while Fairley's 2nd one woman show The Making of a Mulatto was reviewed in 2009 in the New York Times, Show Business Weekly, the Amsterdam News and featured on NBC and WBAI radio.

Fairley, who performs all characters, draws on her life experience of having a white mother and black father.

"Both Halle Berry and I are of bi-racial descent so I believe it is fitting to have her perfume associated with the interracial themes presented in Mulatto Saga," says Fairley.

In a comedic way, Fairley portrays her French mother's reaction to her African American boyfriends and her Afro father's reaction to her white boyfriends. The boyfriends include a C-list hip hop star with big kinky hair, a Jamaican with a marijuana habit, a Frenchman with a penchant for threesomes, a Brad Pitt look a like who requires blond hair in his black girlfriends and a bi-racial metrosexual.

Director Charles Burnett directed Ms. Berry in The Wedding and worked with Oprah Winfrey. He also directed Danny Glover in Namibia as well as Ice Cube in The Glass Shield and Lynn Redgrave in the Annihilation of Fish. Fairley played a co-star role in Spike Lee's tv pilot MONY for NBC, hosted Cha Ching Money Makers for the Discovery Channel and studied with the legendary acting teachers Wynn Handman and with Susan Batson.

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