September 9 - October 9, 2010
at the Manny Fried Playhouse
For
the Curtain Up 2010
and the fifth installment of our annual "Workers' Power Play
Series"
 THE
FURIES OF MOTHER JONES
by Maxine Klein
Directed by Megan Callahan*
Starring Sharon
Strait, Leah Russo, and Marshall Maxwell*
with live musical accompaniment by the Erie Lackawanna Railroad Band
September 9th - October 9th
Thursdays, Fridays, & Saturdays @ 8pm
(no performance Saturday, September 11th)
Tickets $15.00 General Admission
or $10.00 for students, seniors, and Subversive Theatre Members.
All Thursdays except Opening Night are pay-what-you-can admission.
For Curtain Up 2010, Subversive Theatre is proud to present a rare working
class musical -- THE
FURIES OF MOTHER JONES by
Obie Award-winning playwright and theatre-visionary Maxine Klein.
Our production runs September 9th-October 9th
under the direction of emerging stage artist and indy musician Megan
Callahan*.
Golden-throated thespians Sharon
Strait, Leah Russo, and Marshall Maxwell head up this play’s gargantuan
ensemble with live musical accompaniment by Buffalo’s own beloved
bluegrass balladeers, the Erie Lackawanna Railroad Band.
Belting out heart-felt
dirt-under-your-fingernails Appalachian-style ballads, this gutsy historical
drama weaves together the struggles of 1960s West Virginia Coal Miners with
the storied Turn-of-the-Century union battles of the incomparable labor
activist Mary Harris Jones – renowned in the labor movement simply as “Mother Jones.”
This unique musical-for-the-masses offers an impassioned testament to
the sacrifices of everyday working people to win many of the rights we take
for granted today.
The fifth installment of our
annual "Workers’ Power Play Series,"
Subversive Theatre is proud to dedicate this production to the memories of
those Miners who lost their lives in West Virginia’s most recent mining
disaster earlier this year. Our
production will also include a lobby exhibition featuring art and photography highlighting the labor movement, the
history contained within the play, as well as a glimpse into the state and
impact of the coal mining industry past and present.
THE
FURIES OF MOTHER JONES runs September 9th through
October 9th with performances Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays
at 8pm at Subversive Theatre’s regular performance venue, The Manny Fried
Playhouse at 255 Great Arrow Avenue on the third floor of North
Buffalo’s Great Arrow Building. Tickets
are $15 general admission or $10 for students, seniors, and Subversive Theatre
members. Please note: no performance Saturday, September 11th.
For all Thursday performances other than Opening Night, admission is on a
pay-what-you-can basis.
The complete ensemble features Sharon
Strait, Leah Russo, Marshall Maxwell*, Kevin Craig, Hanna Lipkind*, Elizabeth
Oddy, Leon Copeland*, Tilke Hill, Justine Rodriguez, Eric Mowery*, Travis
Hedland, Bryan Figueroa, Tim Stuff*, Hasheen DeBerry*, and M. Joseph Fratello. Live musical accompaniment is by members of the Erie
Lackawanna Railroad Band -- Matthew Crane, Katie Panfil, Brandon Berry, and
Joe Donohue -- with Musical Direction by Joe Donohue and
dramaturgical work by Phil Knoerzer*.
Fight Choreography is by Adam
Rath with Movement Choreography by Nancy Hughes.
Costume Design is by Caitlin McLeod with Lighting Design by Kurt
Schneiderman*, and Set Design by Tom Izard*.
For more information please give
us a call at 716-408-0499.
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