Tucson: Etcetera presents JAILBAIT at Live Theatre Workshop!

 

 

From: Christopher Johnson [mailto:rumspringaandcoke@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 6:11 PM
Subject: Etcetera presents JAILBAIT at Live Theatre Workshop!

 

Contact: Christopher Johnson

Artistic Director of Etcetera,

the late-night arm of Live Theatre Workshop

(520) 425-4163 | RumspringaAndCoke@gmail.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Etcetera, the late-night arm of Live Theatre Workshop, proudly presents

JAILBAIT

by Deirdre O’Connor

Directed by Steve Wood

Featuring Ryan Butler, Christopher Johnson, Christine Peterson & Lucille Petty

 

August 4-20, 2011

Opening Night Performance: Thursday, August 4 at 7:30 PM

All other performances play Friday and Saturday Nights at 10:30 PM

All tickets are $10 at the Box Office

To make your reservation call (520) 327-4242

Approx. running time: 60 minutes with no intermission

For more information go to www.EtceteraLateNight.com

LIVE THEATRE WORKSHOP - 5317 E. Speedway | Tucson, AZ 85712

Located on the North side of Speedway between Rosemont and Craycroft

Produced by Special Arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

THIS PRODUCTION CONTAINS ADULT LANGUAGE AND CONTENT. NO ONE UNDER 16 ADMITTED.

 

Through the course of one dizzying night at a club, JAILBAIT follows the parallel stories of two fifteen-year-old girls, desperate to grow up, and two thirty-something men who are looking to be twenty-one again. High-school sophomores Claire and Emmy make a game of posing as college students in order to meet older men. Brash bachelor Mark thinks a night out with attractive girls will be just what his friend Robert needs to recover from his recent breakup. When this unlikely foursome collides, they discover some surprising and dangerous compatibilities. But when Emmy encounters the sexual expectations of the slick Mark, and Claire finds herself surprisingly drawn to the heartbroken Robert, both girls must decide how far they are willing to go while playing at adulthood. Smart, funny, and disturbing, JAILBAIT asks the question: When do you really become an adult?

 

“…a terrific little play that finds something funny, shocking and sad about two fifteen-year-old girls who grow up fast when they con their way into a Boston club…O'Connor is amazingly good at rendering the tonal pitch and vocal rhythms of overheard dialogue…”

-Variety

 

“…a complicated and darkly comic cautionary tale about the illusion of intimacy at any age…keenly honed dialogue, punctuated by little lies and poignant pauses.”

-Time Out New York

 

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT

Deirdre O’Connor’s plays have been produced or developed with The Cherry Lane Theatre, Naked Angels, St. Ann’s Warehouse, The Lark, The Playwrights Foundation, among others. Her full-length plays include JAILBAIT, ASSISTED LIVING and THE DEATH OF MAY MCALLISTER. Deirdre was a 2008 Cherry Lane Mentor Project Fellow mentored by Michael Weller. Deirdre was a 2008-2009 Lark Playwrights Workshop Fellow. She is a graduate of Hampshire College and Columbia University's MFA Playwriting program, where she was the recipient of the John Golden Playwriting Award.

 

ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

RYAN BUTLER - Mark - has appeared in productions of THE FOREIGNER (Ellard), WORDS, WORDS, WORDS (Milton), A CHRISTMAS CAROL (Bob Cratchit), WEST SIDE STORY (Diesel) and most recently with Etcetera as Yvone/Rudy (THE BOOK OF LIZ), Ryan (THE WIZARDS HAVE LANDED), Morse Code (ROBOTS VS. FAKE ROBOTS) and Jack (SAY YOU LOVE SATAN). Ryan’s directing credits include AN AMERICAN MILLIONAIRE and AN EVENING AT FLEET STREET: HIGHLIGHTS FROM SWEENEY TODD. Ryan graduated from Northern Arizona University in 2009 with a M.A. in English Literature and from the University of Arizona in 2005 with a B.A. in Classics and Theatre.

 

CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON - Robert - is currently in his fourth season as the Artistic Director of Etcetera at Live Theatre Workshop where notable roles include Craig/Peter (DYING CITY), Buddy (KIMBERLY AKIMBO), Chad (SAY YOU LOVE SATAN), Christopher (THE EATING DISORDER TALENT SHOW), George (MR. MARMALADE), The Narrator (THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW), Danny (DANNY AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA), Algernon (THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST), Kitty Kitty Kitty (KITTY KITTY KITTY), Hedwig (HEDWIG & THE ANGRY INCH - for which he was nominated for a 2009 Arizona Daily Star MAC Award for Best Actor), C.B. (DOG SEES GOD), Peter (BUG), The Young Man (SWEET EROS), Tom (FAT PIG), Jon (TAPE), Joshua (CORPUS CHRISTI), Chiron (TITUS ANDRONICUS) and Teddy (TITANIC). Christopher has directed 17 plays for Etcetera, most recently including THE BOOK OF LIZ. He has performed elsewhere with Winding Road Theater Ensemble, Borderlands Theatre, Fairbanks Shakespeare Theatre, Invisible Theatre, Brachiate Theatre Project, 1984 Theatre, Old Pueblo Playwrights and Tucson’s Shakespeare Under The Stars.

 

CHRISTINE PETERSON - Emmy - is thrilled to be making her Live Theatre Workshop debut in the Etcetera production of JAILBAIT. She was most recently seen in THE LEGEND OF POCAHONTAS (Cassie/Iona). Previously, Christine has performed with Beowulf Alley Theater (BLACKBIRD), Pima Community College (A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM) and Christian Youth Theater (THE MUSIC MAN, NARNIA, JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT).

 

LUCILLE PETTY - Claire - is honored to be a part of the Etcetera ensemble, where she was last seen in THE BOOK OF LIZ (Cecily), ROBOTS VS. FAKE ROBOTS (Dancer), MR. MARMALADE (Lucy) and in Richard O’Brien’s THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW (Transylvanian). Other acting credits include Shirley (FIFTH OF JULY) and Cynthia (ARMOR) with Winding Road Theatre Ensemble as well as Millie in LTW’s mainstage production of PICNIC. Lucy is the in-house videographer for Etcetera and can be found on YouTube as ‘ALucyInABucket.’

 

STEVE WOOD - Direction - is thrilled to be making his full-length directing debut with Etcetera. Prior directing credits include Studio Connections’ ALL IN THE TIMING and THE ODD COUPLE as well as Etcetera’s THE BOOK OF LIZ (Associate Direction). He has previously appeared with Etcetera as Duncan / Visil (THE BOOK OF LIZ), Andrew (SAY YOU LOVE SATAN), Shoe Horn (ROBOTS VS. FAKE ROBOTS), Chris (KILLER JOE) and Kitty (KITTY KITTY KITTY). Steve has also performed locally with Alternative Theatre Company (BEYOND THERAPY, DIRTY SECRETS, THE GAYEST CHRISTMAS PAGEANT EVER), Winding Road Theatre Ensemble (THE LION IN WINTER), Live Theatre Workshop (CLOUD 9) and Studio Connections (BAREFOOT IN THE PARK, ANGELS IN AMERICA: MILLENNIUM APPROACHES, TICK TICK...BOOM!, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM and ALL IN THE TIMING).

 

 

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