GAY PEOPLE'S CHRONICLE OCTOBER 15, 1993

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Great Lakes Theatre Festival is opening its 32nd season with Anton Chekhov's masterpiece, The Cherry Orchard, written in 1904 for the Moscow Art Theatre. It is a profoundly human, serio-comic, portrait of a

family that is desperately clinging to outmoded aristocratic values in a rapidly chang-

ing world.

"The Cherry Orchard is a play of memory," according to director Gerald Freedman. "When the curtain goes up it's already over. Nobody is saving or can save the cherry orchard or indeed really wants to. What they're afraid of losing is their memories. It's about the inevitability of change."

Distinguished film and TV actress, Piper Laurie (The Hustler, Carrie, Twin Peaks) will be making her GLTF debut in the role of Madame Ranyevskaya. This is the third GLTF Chekhov production by Freedman and designer John Ezell. Their Uncle Vanya in 1991 was one of the most imaginative and finely realized Chekhov productions that I have ever seen.

Performances of The Cherry Orchard are at the Ohio Theatre. Previews are on October 14 and 15 at 8 pm. Regular performances start on October 16 and continue through October 30, Tuesday-Saturday at 8 pm; and at 1:30 pm on October 17, 20, and 24. Tickets are $16-$28; $15 for previews. To charge tickets telephone Advantix at 241-6000 or at 1-800-766-6048. QuikTix (limited half-price tickets) are available at the box office each evening at 5 pm for that evening's performance. $5 student tickets are available on the day of the performance.

Karamu Performing Arts Theatre is presenting the Cleveland premiere of Kevin Heelan's timely drama Distant Fires. The New York Times noted that this powerful play "raises sobering questions about racism in the workplace and about the roots of urban violence."

Heelan has set the play on the tenth floor of a construction site on a hot summer day. Nearby the fires of a neighborhood torn apart by racial violence and rioting burn. As the five construction workers (three black and two white) and their white supervisor go about their business, we gain insight into the complex nature of racism and the ways it can affect individuals.

Distant Fires is an excellent choice for the program of co-productions between Karamu and Dobama that began two years ago. This program serves as a model of ways in which the African-American community and the white community can work together.

Performances are in the Arena Theatre through October 24; Thursday-Saturday at 8 pm; Sunday at 3 pm. Tickets are $9 on Thursday and Sunday; $10 on Friday and Saturday. For reservations telephone 7957077. October 28-November 7, Distant Fires will be performed at Dobama Theatre.

Fairmount Theatre for the Deaf is opening its Mainstage season with Escoffier: King of Chefs by Owen S. Rackleff. The one-character play is set in a Monte Carlo villa at the end of the 19th century. The legendary chef relates anecdotes about the rich and famous and shares his recipes with the audience.

Escoffier will be performed by Iosif Schneiderman (Moscow Theatre of Mime and Gesture and National Theatre of the Deaf) and Michael Regnier (FTD Resident Artistic Director).

Performances are at Tri-C West on October 22 and 23, and in the Brooks Theatre at the Cleveland Play House October 28-November 7. Tickets are $9.50, $8.50 (seniors), and $5 (youth). For times and reservations telephone 229-2838.

The University of Akron School of Theatre will open a production of the late Charles Ludlam's The Mystery of Irma Vep on October 29. Two actors, by means of astonishingly engineered quick costume changes, perform all the characters in this spoof of classic movies such as Rebecca, Gaslight, and The Mummy's Tomb. It is a tour de force of writing, staging, and uproarious campiness that won both the Drama Desk Award and an Obie Award in 1984, when it was produced by the Ridiculous Theatre Company in New York. The production opens with a student preview on Oct 28 at 8 pm in Kolbe Theatre. Performances are at 8 pm on October 29-30 and November 4-6. There is a 2 pm performance on October 31. Tickets are $8; $6 (seniors and Akron University faculty and staff); $4 (students). For reservations telephone 972-7895.

The Cleveland Play House Lab Company season opened on October 14 with Chekhov's The Seagull. A $15 subscription is available for the three play season which will include Paula Vogel's The Baltimore Waltz and Eliza Anderson's The Lower Rooms. This is an excellent season made up of a classic, a fine contemporary AIDS metaphor play, and a new script. Performances of The Seagull continue through October 16 at 8 pm in the Brooks Theatre. For subscription information and reservations telephone 795-7000.

Perestroika, part II of Tony Kushner's Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes will begin previews at the Walter Kerr Theatre in New York on October 16. The official opening is November 18. For performance schedule and ticket reservations of this landmark work in the history of gay theatre, telephone the 800 number in the ad on the back cover of this issue.

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