Beowulf Alley Theatre Company
Auditions!
Townshend Fisher’s Metaphysical Noir Comedy BELLES DAME SANS MERCI
Beowulf Alley Theatre will hold auditions for Townshend Fisher’s metaphysical, noir comedy Belles Dames Sans Merci on Monday, Monday February 27th at 7:30 PM. Auditions are open call. Resume and headshot are
preferred. Show dates are Friday and Saturday, April 13th, 14th, 20th and 21st 2012.
Needed:
Three men in their thirties to forties
Two women in their twenties-thirties
One woman in her twenties.
One man is his twenties.
Please contact the theatre at theatre@beowulfalley.org or 520 882 0555.
BELLES DAME SANS MERCI is a nourish mystery with detectives, sassy dames and perhaps the most problematic of all, Death herself.
We just want to remind our patrons that our Old Time Radio Theatre series has changed days and times. We will now be showing all your radio favorites the first Saturday of every month at 3pm! Please note this change so you don’t miss out. Our next performance will be March 3rd, so save the date!
There’s a lot of buzz going around about our new education program. Please look forward to an announcement from the new Director of Education, Nicole Scott, about the exciting opportunities coming up for youth theatre! If you have any specific questions regarding educational opportunities here at Beowulf Alley, you can contact her at alleycats@beowulfalley.org.
Interested in getting more involved? We are constantly in need of help! Volunteers are the heart and soul of our theatre and we want to give everyone a chance to make Beowulf Alley a home. Ushers help out during shows taking tickets, selling concessions and get to see a show for free!
Handy with a hammer? We have sets to build and break down every few weeks and the more the merrier! Please contact our Volunteer Coordinator, Tristyn Tucci, at (520)882-0555 if you’d like to volunteer with us!
We want to hear from you!
We love getting comments from our patrons, so please feel free to contact us at anytime with your ideas, comments, or just to say hi! Our email address is theatre@beowulfalley.org or pick up the phone and give us a ring at (520)882-0555.
A quick look…
Beowulf Alley is off to a great 2012! We started the year off with a special event WORD CLOUDS by Michael Fenlason and Tomas Ulises-Soto. The show captured the reactions, feelings and tragedy of the January 8th Safeway Shootings. Our current main stage production, WE WON’T PAY! WE WON’T PAY! By Dario Fo have audiences in stitches from beginning to end. What’s not to like about baguette sword fights and slap-stick antics? This is a show you don’t want to miss! Rehearsals have started for our next main-stage production Radium Girls by D.W. Gregory, a drama that takes us back to the 1920’s when Radium was a miracle cure, a factory that unwittingly poisoned it’s employee’s and their struggle for justice. We are honored to host part of the Tucson Fringe Festival again this year, five shows will be performed in repertory during Februrary 24-26th. Also coming up in March, our Old Time Radio Theatre continues with Fibber McGee & Molly – Fall Housekeeping and SUSPENSE: Three Skeleton Key. Stay tuned for more details about what’s coming up at Beowulf Alley Theatre!
Don’t miss out on our last weekend!
WE WON’T PAY! WE WON’T PAY
By Dario Fo
Directed by Susan Arnald
February 17th, 18th, & 19th. Friday and Saturday shows start at 7:30pm, Sunday matinee at 2:30pm. Tickets are $23 at the door or $21 online. Get your seats today!
“Simone and Cormier work well together, creating a surreal, Lucy-and-Ethel-style duo—and they do so while keeping bags of rice and pasta under their clothes.” – Laura C.J. Owen, Tucson Weekly, www.tucsonweekly.com
“What at first seems a quirky, even foolish bit of fluff, “We Won’t Pay! We Won’t Pay!” gathers momentum to finish with a big message .” – Dave Irwin, Tucson Sentinel, www.tucsonsentinel.com
Dario Fo, one of Italy’s foremost playwrights, is a rarity-a Marxist with a sense of humor. This hilarious farce, a success Off-Broadway and across the U.S., is set in motion when a housewife comes home with groceries she has swiped as part of a spontaneous community action where 300 women did the same. In her effort to keep her secret from her husband, she hides some of the groceries under her best friend’s raincoat. Her husband and his friend, the accomplice’s husband, notice the bulge, of course, but they believe the explanation that the accomplice is pregnant! Hilarity is piled upon hilarity as the characters try to extricate themselves from the mess they have gotten into. Eventually, they all unite to support the spontaneous resistance to eviction in their housing project. This translation was prepared in consultation with Dario Fo and Franca Rhame in 1999 for its premiere at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, MA.
The work of a social reformer with a fractured funny bone . . . Mr. Fo’s manic farce should be obligatory viewing for anyone battling, i.e., succumbing to, the high cost of living.” – The New York Times .
Tickets are available online at www.beowulfalley.org or over the phone at (520)822-0555.
Coming up next!
Beowulf Alley Theatre is pleased to help host Tucson’s 2nd Fringe Festival! Three of the five shows will be here between February 24-26th. Our neighbor’s down the road, Solar Culture, will host the other two. Single tickets and passes are available. One ticket gets you into any single show! Regular price is $10; senior/student tickets are $7. You can purchase tickets here or over the phone at 520-261-4851
Here is the line-up for this exciting event!
Beowulf Alley Theatre 11 South 6th Avenue, Tucson AZ 85701
Lethal Fairy Tales 2/24-10:00pm, 2/25- 10:00pm, 2/26 4:30pm
Unreality Shows 2/24-8:30pm, 2/25-7:00pm, 2/26-3:00pm
The Starter House 2/24- 7:00pm, 2/25- 8:30pm, 2/26-1:30pm
Solar Culture 31 East Toole Avenue, Tucson AZ 85701
Numb 2/24-8:30pm, 2/25-7:00pm, 2/26-3:00pm
The Barely Free Baja Spectacular! 2/24-10:00pm, 2/25- 10:00pm, 2/26 4:30pm
The Tucson Fringe Theater Festival is sponsered by Delectables and Buffalo Exchange.
Beowulf Alley’s Old Time Radio Theatre Company Presents
FIBBER McGEE & MOLLY- Fall Housecleaning
and an encore presentation of
SUSPENSE: Three Skeleton Key
MARCH 3, 2012 at 3:00pm
Tickets are $9.
Beowulf Alley Theatre’s Old Time Radio Theatre Company will present two episodes of the Golden Age of Radio. First, a classic production of FIBBER McGEE & MOLLY- Fall Housecleaning. This is followed by a an encore presentation of SUSPENSE: Three Skeleton Key. All shows are performed at the theatre, 11 South 6th Avenue (Downtown between Broadway and Congress). The performance date is Saturday, March 3, at 3:00 p.m. Admission is $9. Group discounts available. The box office phone number is (520) 882-0555.
Directed by Sheldon Metz, the OTRT Ensemble Company includes: Jon Benda, Denise Blum, Butch Bryant, George Chatalas, Samantha Cormier, Gerri Courtney-Austein, Laura Davenport, Tony Eckstat, Bill Epstein, Sydney Flynn, Vince Flynn, Audrey Ann Gambach, Brian Hale, Meagan Jones, Butch Lynn, Steve McKee, Charlie Middagh, Whitney Morton, Joan O’Dwyer, Shannon Brooke Rzuildo, Mike Saxon, Ina Shivak, Pat Timm, Terry Thure, Jared Stokes, John Vornholt.
“T’ain’t funny, McGee!!” One of radio’s greatest hits and one of the longest running shows in radio history, Fibber McGee and Molly, starred Jim and Marion Jordan as the beloved couple. premiered in 1935 and ran until 1959, long after radio’s golden days had passed. It is considered by many to be the origin of situation comedy itself.In this episode,
The saddest phrase, to man or mouse, is Come on, sweetheart, let’s clean the house. And here at Number 79 where life till now was smooth and fine, comes labor, tough and acrobatic, like hauling junk down from the attic. Wives wallow in it, men think it folly. Like these two – Fibber McGee and Molly!
“MOLLY: Hello there, Mister Old Timer, we’re doing a bit of house cleaning. Do you want to help?
OLD TIMER: How much?
FIBBER: Two bits an hour, and feed your own charley horses.”
Three Skeleton Key was first presented on ESCAPE. Suspense was a radio drama series broadcast on CBS Radio from 1942 through 1962. One of the premier drama programs of the Golden Age of Radio, it was subtitled “radio’s outstanding theater of thrills” and focused on suspense thriller-type scripts, usually featuring leading Hollywood actors of the era. Approximately 945 episodes were broadcast during its long run, and more than 900 are extant.
If there is one thing that ESCAPE and SUSPENSE have in common it is “Three Skeleton Key,” a classic horror tale about rats narrated by Vincent Price. First made famous by Escape, this radio-play was then broadcast two more times on Suspense after Escape went off the air. Essentially, they were the same show. Based on a 1937 Esquire magazine short story by the French writer George Toudouze, the story was adapted for Escape in 1949 by James Poe.
This was the presentation performed by Vincent Price on Suspense on March 17, 1950. The suspense grows to a strong finish. Close your eyes and imagine!
Next up in our season…
Radium Girls
by D.W. Gregory
Directed by Sheldon Metz
March 15-April 8, 2012
In 1926, radium was a miracle cure, Madame Curie an international celebrity, and luminous watches the latest rage—until the girls who painted them began to fall ill with a mysterious disease. Inspired by a true story, Radium Girls traces the efforts of Grace Fryer, a dial painter, as she fights for her day in court. Her chief adversary is her former employer, Arthur Roeder, an idealistic man who cannot bring himself to believe that the same element that shrinks tumors could have anything to do with the terrifying rash of illnesses among his employees. As the case goes on, however, Grace finds herself battling not just with the U.S. Radium Corporation, but with her own family and friends, who fear that her campaign for justice will backfire. This story changed laws in the country regarding protection of employees. Written with warmth and humor, Radium Girls is a fast-moving, highly theatrical ensemble piece. Nine actors portray more than 30 parts— friends, co-workers, lovers, relatives, attorneys, scientists, consumer advocates, and myriad interested bystanders. Radium Girls offers a “powerful” and “engrossing” theatrical experience, as well as, a wry, unflinching look at the peculiarly American obsessions with health, wealth, and the commercialization of science.
About Beowulf Alley Theatre Company
Beowulf Alley Theatre Company is a 501(c)(3) organization committed to enriching the community and enhancing appreciation of the arts through the production of innovative, invigorating theatre and theatrical education with the highest standards for acting and production. Funding is provided through ticket sales and the generous support of individuals and businesses, with smaller support from granting agencies and foundations. Founded in 2001, the intimate, 95-seat theatre provides a facility that meets professional standards where performing artists, educators and technicians can present their skills. Beowulf Alley has received critical acclaim, including five Mac Awards and eleven MAC nominations, as well as recognition in the Tucson Weekly’s “Best of…” Awards for acting, set design and new play presentations. The company has presented over 400 performances to Tucson audiences and provides performance and rehearsal space for rent by other organizations.
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