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DRUNK: AS YOU LIKE IT Runs Sept. 13-20

DRUNK: AS YOU LIKE IT 
Xenia Area Community Theatre
Sept. 13-20
[Xenia]

Directed by Nikki Lange & TC Kimmet

Actors present a live reading of Shakespeare’s AS YOU LIKE IT. The audience can donate to cause an actor to drink. All participants must be 21 or older.

  • Sat. Sept 13 at 7pm
  • Sat. Sept. 20 at 7pm

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TALKING WITH… Runs May 16-25

TALKING WITH…
Xenia Area Community Theatre
May 16-25
[Xenia]

Directed by Catherine Shannon

Idiosyncratic characters amuse, move and frighten, always speaking from the depths of their souls. They include a baton twirler, a fundamentalist snake handler, an ex rodeo rider and an actress willing to go to any length to get a job.

  • Fri-Sat, May 16-17 at 7pm
  • Sun, May 18 at 3pm
  • Fri-Sat, May 23-24 at 7pm
  • Sun, May 25 at 3pm

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Cast Announced for TALKING WITH… at Xenia Area Community Theatre

X*ACT is thrilled to announce the cast of TALKING WITH…

The cast:

  • 15 MINUTES: Megan Johnson
  • SCRAPS: Cathy Long
  • CLEAR GLASS MARBLES: Mandy Shannon
  • AUDITION: Josie Johnson
  • RODEO: Katie Manns
  • TWIRLER: Katie Thorpe
  • LAMPS: Connie Strait
  • HANDLER: Onyx Davis
  • DRAGONS: Elizabeth Burns (Weekend 2), Mary McKinley (Weekend 1)
  • FRENCH FRIES: Edith Waugh
  • MARKS: Beth Anderson

Congratulations to all these amazing ladies.

Directed by Catherine Shannon, performances run May 16-25.

For more information visit www.xeniaact1.org.

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CHURCH AND STATE Runs April 18-27

CHURCH AND STATE
Xenia Area Community Theatre
April 18-27
[Xenia]

Directed by Mike Taint

Cast: Steve Mongelli as Senator Charles Whitmore (R/NC), Amy Taint as Sara Whitmore, Jonah Reed as Alex Klein, Shawn Furl as Tom & Brandon Castillo as Marshall

Church & State is a fast-paced dramedy about faith, politics, and “The Twitter”. The play is about Charles Whitmore’s Senate re-election campaign, and how he decides to finally tell the public exactly what’s on his mind, no filter. As his devoutly Christian wife and liberal Jewish campaign manager try to contain the damage, the play looks at how religion influences politics and how politics has become a religion. The play is simultaneously funny, heartbreaking, and uplifting.

  • Fri-Sat, April 18-19 at 7pm
  • Sun, April 20 at 3pm
  • Fri-Sat, April 25-26 at 7pm
  • Sun, April 27 at 3pm

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Auditions Announced for TALKING WITH… at Xenia Area Community Theatre

Directed by Catherine Shannon

Auditions: March 17th & 18th @7pm

Performances: May 16th-25th
Auditions will take place in the form of cold reads. Actors will have time to look over the sides before their audition.
Casting Breakdown:
Actors of all ages (18+), ethnicities, races, and disabilities are encouraged to audition. All characters are female-presenting and the play is consisted of eleven monologues.
  • 15 MINUTES- (20s-30s F) An insecure actress prepares in her dressing room while musing about the imbalanced relationship between audience and performer and the “self-lacerating exposure” of entertainment, wishing for a deeper connection with the people watching her.
  • SCRAPS- (30s-50s F) A housewife reveals her escapist double-life as the Patchwork Girl from the Wizard of Oz books. Her maladaptive daydreaming transports her into the lands of Oz, but increasingly struggles to navigate between reality and fairytale.
  • CLEAR GLASS MARBLES- (30s-50s F) A woman recounts the time leading up to her mother’s death and the lessons it gave her, learning to let go of each day with the drop of a clear glass marble.
  • AUDITION- (20s-30s F) A jittery young actress exhibits increasing desperation to be cast, going to violent and threatening lengths to secure her spotlight.
  • RODEO- (30s-50s F) An ex-rodeo star reflects on the commercialization of rodeo that ended her career, and the monetization of passion.
  • TWIRLER- (20s-30s F) A champion baton twirler relays her rise to glory and expresses the cathartic revelations of twirling, arguing to the audience the unparalleled spiritual connection of “throwing yourself up to God.”
  • LAMPS- (50s-70s F) An older woman responds to her progressive lonliness and questions of aging with the patterns and versatility of light, filling her home with lamps to conduct shadows.
  • HANDLER- (20s-30s F) A Pentecostal Holiness snake handler presents to the audience her demanding faith and the threat of being bit if you don’t have spirit.
  • DRAGONS- (30s-40s F) A woman giving birth takes pride in her life’s tenacious abnormality through the pains of labour and a doctor “affronted by the extraordinary” of her little dragon.
  • FRENCH FRIES- (50s-70s F) A homeless woman dreaming of living in a McDonald’s balances humor with solemnity as she affirms plastic as God’s proof of eternity.
  • MARKS- (50s-70s F) Having spent too long “unmarked by life,” a woman adorned in scars and tattoos declares the importance of living your life upon your skin- and her mission to help others’ lives truly start.

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