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PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
August 16, 2013
Contact: Lesley Greene, Associate Producing Director - [email protected],
(607) 272-0403. Photos available upon request.
TICKETS: $15-$37 Single tickets go on sale August 20th. CALL Kitchen Theatre Box Office at 607272-0570 (Monday - Friday 12-6pm, Saturday 4-6:30pm, Sunday 12-2:30pm) or buy online
at www.kitchentheatre.org.
SUBSCRIPTIONS: Available now at 607-272-0403 or online at www.kitchentheatre.org
GROUP RATES: Discounts are available when you come with a group. For details, call (607) 2720403.
WEBSITE: For more information on the Kitchen Theatre Company, visit www.kitchentheatre.org
This play is made possible in part by Production Sponsors Barry Chester and Elissa Cogan and
Media Sponsor Cayuga Radio Group. This funding helps the Kitchen bring bold, intimate and
engaging theater to life.
Kitchen Theatre’s 23rd Season begins with a comedy – Tom Stoppard’s translation
of HEROES by Gérald Sibleyras
Ithaca, NY: Kitchen Theatre Company opens its 23rd Season with Tom Stoppard’s awardwinning translation of HEROES, a comedy by French playwright Gérald Sibleyras. Winner of
the prestigious Olivier Award for Best New Comedy, HEROES begins previews on September
4th. Opening night is September 7th, and the play runs through September 22nd.
Today’s baby boomers generally expect to continue to explore life’s opportunities after they stop
working; retirement is a chance to fill one’s life with new adventures. In contrast, Gustave,
Philippe and Henri, the three WWI heroes of the play, are now confined to a veterans’ home in
rural France in 1959 and have a much-reduced view of what is in store for the last miles of their
life’s journeys. They live under the tyrannical hand of Sister Madeline, who believes that a
combination of strict rules and daily celebrations of residents’ birthdays–mixed with almost as
many funerals–is the best way to live one’s last days. Intrepid lifelong soldiers, they support
each other in a rebellion against authority and hatch a plan to escape. They may go to Indochina,
or perhaps just to the stand of poplars that sway like sirens on a nearby hill, but they need to find
an alternative to the unbearable tedium of their daily lives.
Margarett Perry, (The Motherf**ker with the Hat, Private Lives, Call Me Waldo, Mrs.
Mannerly, among many others) directs this delightful and heartbreakingly funny play that looks
at how we cope and maintain hope. Kitchen Theatre Artistic Director Rachel Lampert says, “I
love these three characters. They have a never-say-die spirit that makes me take notice of how
we choose to live our lives. I am thrilled to have Margarett Perry get our season started. We have
an extraordinarily wonderful cast, and Kent Goetz’s set design is so inviting, I want to move in!”
The cast includes two newcomers to the Kitchen Theatre Company and the return of KTC
veteran Eric Brooks. Eric Brooks (AEA) previously appeared at the Kitchen in The Price,
Precious Nonsense, The Unexpected Man, Talley’s Folly, Iron, Between East and West, The
Trestle at Pope Lick Creek, & Six Apparitions of Lenin Appear on the Piano. Regional credits
include the Loretto-Hilton Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, and the Meadow Brook Theatre in
Detroit. He also spent several years as Dr. Louis Darnell on the long-running soap
opera, Guiding Light.
New to the Kitchen is Evan Thompson (AEA) whose Broadway appearances include Ivanov,
City of Angels, 1776 among others; regional productions at Arena Stage, Dorset Theater Festival,
Ford’s Theater among others and in NYC at Cherry Lane, Second Stage, NY Shakespeare
Festival, Queens Theater in the Park, Primary Stages and more. Completing the cast is Arthur
Bicknell, who has returned to his native Ithaca and serves as the Literary Manager of
Homecoming Players. He appeared locally last season in Theater Incognita’s Our Town. Arthur
Bicknell has been an actor, playwright and theatrical agent.
Longtime Kitchen Theatre Company designers include Kent Goetz, set design, Tyler M. Perry,
light design and Lisa Boquist, costume design. New to the Kitchen is Anthony Mattana, who
will do the sound design.
Kitchen Theatre Company is pleased to have the support of sponsors Barry Chester and Elissa
Cogan and media sponsor Cayuga Radio Group.
In conjunction with the Ithaca premiere of Heroes, the Kitchen Theatre Company will present a
number of ancillary events: free pre-show discussions with local experts on issues related to the
play and post-show talk backs with the cast and Artistic Director. Pre-show talks are scheduled
for Thursday, September 12th and Thursday, September 19th, and talkbacks are scheduled for
Friday, September 13th and Friday, September 20th. Please check our website for more events:
www.kitchentheatre.org.
Bold, intimate, engaging... Kitchen Theatre Company (KTC), beginning its 23rd season, is downtown Ithaca's
critically acclaimed and nationally recognized year-round professional theater company, specializing in regional and
world premiere plays and musicals. KTC's intimate 99-seat theater is in its newly renovated, LEED-certified building
in the West End neighborhood of downtown Ithaca, New York. KTC is the first not-for-profit recipient of the David R.
Strong Memorial "Small Business of the Year" Award from the Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce and
receives public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and the Tompkins County
Tourism Program. The Kitchen Theatre Company also receives general operating support from the Shubert
Foundation.
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Heroes
WHAT:
Heroes - Kitchen Theatre Company opens its 23rd Season with Tom Stoppard’s award-winning
translation of HEROES, a comedy by French playwright Gérald Sibleyras. Winner of the prestigious
Olivier Award for Best New Comedy, HEROES begins previews on September 4th. Opening night is
September 7th, and the play runs through September 22nd.
In conjunction with the Ithaca premiere of Heroes, the Kitchen Theatre Company will present a number
of ancillary events: free pre-show discussions with local experts on issues related to the play and postshow talk backs with the cast and Artistic Director. Pre-show talks are scheduled for Thursday,
September 12th and Thursday, September 19th, and talkbacks are scheduled for Friday, September 13th and
Friday, September 20th. Please check our website for more events: www.kitchentheatre.org.
WHO:
Written by Gérald Sibleyras
Translated by Tom Stoppard
Performed by Arthur Bicknell, Eric Brooks*, Evan Thompson*
Directed by Margarett Perry**
*member, AEA
**member, SDC
WHEN:
Previews: September 4 - 6
Performances: September 7 - 22
Wednesdays at 7:30 pm: September 4 (preview), 11, 18
Thursdays at 2:00 pm: September 12
Thursdays at 7:30 pm: September 5 (preview), 12, 19
Fridays at 8 pm: September 6 (preview), 13, 20
Saturdays at 8 pm: September 7 (Opening), 14, 21
Sundays at 4 pm: September 8, 15, 22
WHERE:
The Kitchen Theatre Company
417 W. Martin Luther King, Jr. Street
Ithaca, NY 14850
HOW:
Single tickets go on sale August 20th. CALL Kitchen Theatre Box Office at 607-2720570 (Monday - Friday 12-6pm, Saturday 4-6:30pm, Sunday 12-2:30pm) or buy online
at www.kitchentheatre.org. Subscriptions available now at 607-272-0403 or online
at www.kitchentheatre.org.
TICKETS:
Previews: $27
Opening Night: $37 adult, $34 senior
Regular performances: $34 adult, $31 senior
Students (with ID): $28
Student Rush (30 minutes before the performance): $15