Quotidian Theatre Company Presents Two Rarely-Performed One-Person Shows

Quotidian Theatre Company opens its celebratory 20thanniversary season with two shows in repertory: Horton Foote's A Coffin in Egypt, and Conor McPherson's St Nicholas. Jack Sbarbori, QTC Artistic Director, and Foote and McPherson expert directs both shows.

Per DC Theatre Scene critic Tim Treanor, "Quotidian takes a back seat to no theater in Washington as an interpreter of Foote." Continuing that leading role, QTC presents A Coffin in Egypt, a rare play by Academy Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Horton Foote. The one-woman show is a meditation on one 90-year-old widow's dramatic life in the small Texas town of Egypt. Jane Squier Bruns, who excelled as Carrie Watts in Foote's The Trip to Bountiful and as Josie Weems in last season's Night Seasons, returns to take on this challenging role. A Coffin in Egypt is directed by QTC Artistic Director and Foote expert Jack Sbarbori.

In the other slot of the repertory is Conor McPherson's gothic tale, St Nicholas. One of Ireland's most brilliant contemporary playwrights, McPherson helped establish his reputation with this early play. He asks the audience to question whether a Dublin theatre critic (Steve Beall) really did run into vampires while chasing a young actress in London! Who better to stage this piece than QTC, which DC Theatre Scene declared "has become the best stage to experience McPherson's plays in the Washington, D.C. area... a tremendous credit to the local theater scene." And who better to tackle the role than Beall who is consistently praised as one of the best interpreters of McPherson's complicated characters.

A Coffin in Egypt and St Nicholas open on November 15 at 8:00 p.m. at the Writer's Center in Bethesda, Maryland, and run through December 17.
Members of the press are invited to contact Quotidian at 301-816-1023, to schedule review dates and times.

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