UPCOMING PRODUCTION

Forum to present Edward Albee's Marriage Play in late spring

Cesear's Forum has rescheduled a suspended production of Edward Albee's Marriage Play for late spring, at Kennedy's Down Under, PlayhouseSquare Center, Cleveland, Ohio, April 17th through May 23rd. Mr. Albee, a three time Pulitzer prize-winning playwright and preeminent American dramatist, whose works include Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?, A Delicate Balance, Three Tall Women and The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?, wrote Marriage Play in 1987 during a period of disfavor from New York producers and critics. First presented in Vienna, the play was produced at New York’s Signature Theatre in 1993 and rediscovered at London's National Theatre in 2001.

Marriage Play portrays a married couple in crisis, a recurrent theme with Mr. Albee, whose language and situation combine dark humor with unsparing insight and humanity. Verbal calisthenics extend to physical admonishments; love is blunted by the uncertainty of a kick or caress and mid-life identity. According to Mr. Albee, "Theater should be a tough experience like anything else, but it also has the responsibility not to be boring."

This past March, Mr. Albee celebrated his 80th birthday, and productions of his work have flourished both in New York and regionally. Cesear’s Forum, Cleveland's small resident non-profit professional theatre company, is known for it's intimate staging of unique, timely and often unknown plays. Resident actors Dana Hart and Julia Kolibab will portray Jack and Jill, a social climbing couple evaluating their investment failures and domestic bailout options. The production will be staged by Artistic Director Greg Cesear, with a setting by Michael Larochelle and costumes by Aimee Kluiber.

All seats $15. Performances at Kennedy's
Down Under, Playhouse Square Center, 1501 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland.
Call 216-241-6000 or www.playhousesquare.org.