After producing Pulitzer-Prize-nominated plays in 2013 and 2014, Actors Repertory Theatre Luxembourg, the only professional English-language theatre company in the Grand Duchy, presents two important contemporary theatrical voices in their 2015 café theatre season.
First is Daryl Lisa Fazio’s Greyhounds, opening on 2 June for a six-performance run at the café Nature Elements Am Garage, to be followed in October by Donna Hoke’s Flowers in the Desert.
In Greyhounds, circumstances bring two very different women, both with painful pasts, to an isolated bus stop in rural Oklahoma in the middle of the night. Thus begins a dance of hurt, humor and intense longing for connection. A horrible discovery transforms and strengthens their desperate link, forging an alliance and building a friendship.
In its European premiere Greyhounds features local English-language theatre veterans Christine Probst and Rhona Richards. Actors Rep Artistic Director Erik Abbott directs. The play has had two previous New York productions by the American Theatre of Actors and by Theatre Row. Theatre website NewYorkCool.com called it ‘an actor’s showcase’ that is ‘revelatory and exciting’.
The production is made possible through the financial support of the Ministry of Culture and Ogier and the support of e2advance.com IT Technologies.
As a delicious post-show treat, dinner is available after the show from Nature Elements (reservations recommended and additional costs apply), with drinks available both before and after.
Nature Elements Am Garage, located inside Robin du Lac on Route d’Esch in Luxembourg City, opened in September 2014. The café offers fine food, fresh fruits and vegetables, an excellent assortment of wines, plus cosmetics and other natural products. The café has been host to a variety of musical soirees and now an evening of theatre and dining.
Daryl Lisa Fazio is a commissioned playwright at the Horizon Theatre in Atlanta. Her plays and musicals have been work-shopped and produced in numerous US regional theatres, including New York’s American Theatre of Actors and Theatre Row, the Florida Repertory Theatre and Atlanta’s Academy Theatre.
Tickets cost €20 (students €10). Reservations by E-mail: ActorsRep.Tickets@gmail.com or tel: 356339
Greyhounds Performances
2, 3, 4, 5, 6 June at 19:30 / 7 June at 14:30
The collective international theatre experience of Actors Rep spans a vast array of professional productions on stages from London’s West End to New York, Paris, Chicago, Minneapolis and Cologne.
See www.actorsrep.lu for further details.
