A RED ORCHID THEATRE OPENS 22ND SEASON WITH THE US PREMIERE OF STRANDLINE BY ABBIE SPALLEN DIRECTED BY JR SULLIVAN OCTOBER 23 – DECEMBER 7, 2014
A Red Orchid Theatre opens its 22nd Season with the US premiere of Strandline, written by Abbie Spallen and directed by JR Sullivan (The Faith Healer). The production runsOctober 23 – December 7, 2014 at A Red Orchid Theatre, 1531 N. Wells.
A richly comic, searing drama by Abbie Spallen, one of Ireland’s most exciting playwrights and winner of the Steward Parker Trust Award and the The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. In a small coastal village in Northern Ireland, three local women reluctantly join Mairin, an outsider and an artist, in mourning the death of her husband. Everyone is there for a reason, but each has a bloody good reason not to be there. With mythical echoes, Strandline turns a sharp eye on small-town social and economic realities.
Strandline premiered with Fishamble in Dublin in 2009.
Strandline features A Red Orchid Ensemble Members Dado, Kirsten Fitzgerald and Natalie Westwith Meg Warner and John Babbo.
Box Office: Located at 1531 N. Wells Ave, Chicago, (312) 943-8722; or online www.aredorchidtheatre.org
About A Red Orchid
Since 1993 A Red Orchid Theatre has been an artistic mainstay of the Chicago theatre community; known and praised for its powerful ensemble, creative design and its gripping, intimate productions. The resident Ensemble maintains the conviction that live theatre is the greatest sustenance for the human spirit and that passionately committed theatre will draw passionately committed audiences.
A Red Orchid Theatre is: Lance Baker, Kamal Angelo Bolden, Dado, Mike Durst, Jennifer Engstrom, Kirsten Fitzgerald, Joseph Fosco, Steve Haggard, Mierka Girten, Larry Grimm, Karen Kawa, Karen Kessler, Danny McCarthy, Shade Murray, Brett Neveu, Michael Shannon, Guy Van Swearingen, Doug Vickers and Natalie West