Burning Coal Theatre Company Hosts Poker Player David Enoch and Poker Author Matt Flynn In Third Lobby Lecture

Burning Coal Theatre Company will host professional poker player David Enoch and poker author Matt Flynn for its third Lobby Lecture of the 2009-2010 season. The Lobby Lecture will be held at 5:30 pm on Saturday, February 20 followed by a performance of Conor McPherson's play, The Seafarer. The cost of admission for the lecture is $5 (available at the door), but all ticketholders to any performance of The Seafarer (February 4 - 21, 2010) will get in to the Lobby Lecture free.

Tickets to The Seafarer are $20 or $15 for students, seniors and active military and are available at www.burningcoal.org or at 919.834.4001.

David Enoch resides in California and is one of the few full-time professional poker players in the United States. He has logged eleven consecutive winning years as a professional player and has appeared at the final table of the Main Event at the World Series of Poker. Matt Flynn resides in Raleigh and is the co-author of Professional No-Limit Hold 'em: Volume I and is currently at work on Volume II. He has played professional tournaments and cash games across the United States and in Costa Rica. Enoch and Flynn will discuss their experiences in the world of professional poker, the history and popularity of the game, and poker strategy.

The Lobby Lecture program features experts from fields related to the themes and issues featured in Burning Coal's productions. The Seafarer, which features a high-stakes game of poker, is directed at Burning Coal by artistic director Jerome Davis. The Seafarer performs February 4-21, 2010 and tickets are available through www.burningcoal.org or by calling (919) 834-4001.

Burning Coal Theatre Company is Raleigh's small professional theatre. Burning Coal is an incorporated, non-profit [501 (c) (3)] organization. Burning Coal's mission is to produce literate, visceral, affecting theatre that is experienced, not simply seen. Burning Coal produces explosive reexaminations of overlooked classic and modern plays, as well as new plays, whose themes and issues are of immediate concern to our audience, using the best local, national and International Artists available. We work toward a theatre of high-energy performances and minimalist production values. The emphasis is on literate works that are felt and experienced viscerally, unlike more traditional linear plays, at which audiences are most often asked to observe without participating. Race and gender non-specific casting is an integral component of our perspective, as well as an international viewpoint.

 

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