Our 26th Season!
'THIS LIME TREE BOWER'
by acclaimed playwright Conor McPherson
(author of THE WEIR, THE GOOD THIEF and many other plays).*
(author of THE WEIR, THE GOOD THIEF and many other plays).*
* In June of 2011, Theatre Gigante presented a production of Conor McPherson's THE GOOD THIEF to stellar reviews and lavish praise of McPherson's prose. Here are some quotes about that specific production (Theatre Gigante's staging of THE GOOD THIEF) and McPherson's writing, in general:
“ …. McPherson’s words are hilarious and haunting ... elegant, clipped prose … McPherson’s writing is at turns vulgar and masculine or lyrical and haunting … spectacular, dramatic … in the true Irish way … ”
… THIRD COAST DIGEST, June, 2011
… THIRD COAST DIGEST, June, 2011
“… a big story … engaging … it's not until the story's over that one begins the "Now, wait a minute" process of doubting its veracity and wondering just what was truth and what was blarney … But by then it's too late …”
"THIS LIME TREE BOWER"
is directed by Boulevard Theatre Artistic Director Mark Bucher
and features actors Rachel Lewandowski ("Frankie") and Marty McNamee ("Ray").
Please note:
This production is still (January 18, 2012) seeking
a young male actor for the role of "Joe" (17-year old Irish lad, dialect required).
Please additionally note:
This production is also currently (January 18, 2012) seeking:
*a stage manager ...
*underwriters, sponsors and friends to contribute to this show's "pot o' gold (also known as its show budget) ...
In addition, this MILWAUKEE PREMIERE:
*features adult language and the description of mature situations ...
*runs approximately 100 minutes with one intermission and is produced with the kind permission of Dramatists Playservice, Inc. ...
Performance Dates
FIRST WEEK:
Tuesday, February 21st @ 7:30 pm
(Pay What You Can Preview/Dress Rehearsal)
Please note: This Final Dress is open to all subscribers, should they choose to attend this date. All admissions are considered donations, as this date is truly a "pay what you can" event.
Wednesday, February 22nd @ 7:30 pm: $21 (Opening)
Thursday, February 23rd @ 7:30 pm: $21
Friday, February 24th @ 8 pm: $21
Saturday, February 25th @ 8 pm: $23
Sunday, February 26th @ 2:30 pm: $21
SECOND WEEK:
Saturday, March 3rd @ 8 pm: $23
Sunday, March 4th @ 2:30 pm: $21
THIRD WEEK:
Saturday, March 10th @ 8 pm: $23
Sunday, March 11th @ 2:30 pm: $21
FOURTH WEEK:
Saturday, March 17th @ 8 pm: $23
Sunday, March 18th @ 2:30 pm: $21
ADVANCE SUBSCRIBERS, PLEASE NOTE:
The fourth week of performance is the final week for any and allADVANCE SUBSCRIBERS to attend this production without incurring an "up-charge" of $10 per admission. No exceptions, thank you very much.
The fourth week of performance is the final week for any and allADVANCE SUBSCRIBERS to attend this production without incurring an "up-charge" of $10 per admission. No exceptions, thank you very much.
FIFTH WEEK:
Saturday, March 24th @ 8 pm: $23
Saturday, March 24th @ 8 pm: $23
Sunday, March 25th @ 2:30 pm: $23
SIXTH WEEK:
Friday, March 30th @ 8 pm: $23
Saturday, March 31st @ 8 pm: $23
Sunday, April 1st @ 2:30 pm: $23 (Final performance)
Patrons:
Please note that ANYTIME SUBSCRIBERS may attend any performance of this six-week/16-performance schedule. Boulevard (of course) encourages all subscribers, patrons and friends of our "family" to attend early in each production's run.
Please remember that advance attendance is arts activism in action!
This lime-tree bower my prison ! I have lost
Beauties and feelings, such as would have been
Most sweet to my remembrance even when age
Had dimm'd mine eyes to blindness!
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
SOUND BITES from other productions of "THIS LIME TREEBOWER" ...
Please note that ANYTIME SUBSCRIBERS may attend any performance of this six-week/16-performance schedule. Boulevard (of course) encourages all subscribers, patrons and friends of our "family" to attend early in each production's run.
Please remember that advance attendance is arts activism in action!
Any Boulevard patron, subscriber, donor, board member or "friend" who chooses to wait until the "last minute" to book seats does so at their own risk of being turned away.
Well, they are gone, and here must I remain,This lime-tree bower my prison ! I have lost
Beauties and feelings, such as would have been
Most sweet to my remembrance even when age
Had dimm'd mine eyes to blindness!
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
SOUND BITES from other productions of "THIS LIME TREEBOWER" ...
'This Lime Tree Bower' talks the talk at CoHo Theater
by Marty Hughley / Published in THE OREGONIAN on Monday, May 10, 2010, 2:35 PM
by Marty Hughley / Published in THE OREGONIAN on Monday, May 10, 2010, 2:35 PM
" ... In "This Lime Tree Bower," which opened Friday at CoHo Theater, playwright Conor McPherson doesn't force the trio together so much as let their individual stories cross and intertwine like the tree branches ... The characters speak directly to the audience in tones that blend the conspiratorial with the confessional, with Ray sprinkling in a raconteur's roguish charm. And the sense of connection and affection that eventually emerges between them is subtle yet unmistakable,a reflection of the play's thematic concern with the effects of experience and memory. ... turns out to be sharp, very funny, and moving in small yet not insignificant ways. Partly ... due to McPherson's writing, which is loaded with vibrantly colorful obscenities, but also odd little details ... "
THIS LIME TREE BOWER
Bush Theatre, London W12
Opened 5 July, 1996
THIS LIME TREE BOWER
Bush Theatre, London W12
Opened 5 July, 1996
"Little seems to exaggerate the success or failure of a theatrical piece as starkly as writing it in a series of monologues. Brian Friel's Faith Healerworks magnificently, to a degree of which Wallace Shawn's The Designated Mourner can barely dream.
Conor McPherson's This Lime Tree Bower also comes out on top ... it's a damn fine story.
Frank works in the family "chipper" in a quiet seaside town south of Dublin; younger brother Joe nurses a non-sexual schoolboy infatuation with the charismatic but significantly named Damian; their sister's boyfriend Ray is an arrogant, philandering philosophy don. Each has his own wants – teenage love, intellectual glory or the chance to take the local shark down several pegs; Frank and Ray show holes at their respective cores, Joe feels a similar lack which is part of the adolescent experience. Turn and turn about, they give their individual accounts of a week in which Joe sees Damian's true colours, Ray disgraces himself and Frank pulls off an unexpectedly high-yield robbery.
The strength of McPherson's piece ... however, is the ordinary detail, the pettiness surrounding the crucial events. Days, and nights of dream and reverie, are recounted with an understated attention ... laughs come not from jokes as such, but from matter-of-fact accounts of everyday goings-on ... It is McPherson's deep feeling for the perfection of a story well told which gives the evening its quiet joy.
After the last six months or so, some London theatregoers may consider themselves "Irished out". It would be a pity to pass up such a little gem as This Lime Tree Bower ... for so specious a reason."
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Previous 26th Season Shows
Circle Mirror Transformation
August 17th-September 4th, 2011
Cast and Crew:
Jaime Jastrab (JAMES)
Beth Monhollen (THERESA)
Christine Pollnow (LAUREN)
Kate Sherry (MARTY)
Michael Weber (SCHULTZ)
Director: Mark Bucher
Stage Manager: Donald Madden
Stage Design and Construction: Joe Fransee
Light, sound/music cue operator: Donald Madden
Lighting Design: Holly Blomquist
Sound & Music: Norman Gaulin
Set Design/Construction: Joe Fransee
Technical Assistance: Jaime Jastrab
Boulevard Archival Photographer: Troy Freund (www.troyfreund.com)
Graphic Design: Jason Krukowski
Read the Reviews:
Pants on Fire (A Staged Reading)
September 29th-October 1st, 2011
Cast and Crew
Directed and Written By: Brooke Wegner (Pictured above)
Technical Support: Jaime Jastrab
Co-Produced by: Norman Gaulin
Beth Monhollen as Mona
Christine Horgen as Bunny
Micheal Keiley as Brian
Teresa Meyers as Grace
Lynda Diaz as Rianne
Lynda Diaz as Rianne
Nicole Ray as Sarah
Donald Madden as Student and Waiter
Boulevard Archival Photographer: Troy Freund (www.troyfreund.com)
Read the reiveiws : Shepherd Express
The Importance of Being Earnest October 26th - December 3rd, 2011 Cast and Crew:Director: Mark Bucher
Stage Managers: Anne Blust and Donald Madden
Graphic design:Jason Krukowski
Sound Design: Norman Gaulin
Dialect Coach: David Oswald, Department Chair of Theatre Arts & Associate Professor of Theatre, Cardinal Strich University
Clarence Aumend as Lane, Merriman
David Ferrie as Canon Chasuble
Megan Kaminsky as Cecily
Tess Cinpinski as Gwendolyn
Mary Buchel as Miss Prism
David Matthew Bohn as John Worthing
Margaret Casey as Lady Bracknell
Kyle Queenan as Algernon
Boulevard Archival Photographer: Troy Freund (www.troyfreund.com)
Read the reviews:
UWM Post
UWM Post
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