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Manhattan Repertory Theater Presents
“To Protect the Poets”
A New Play by John Doble
LIMITED ENGAGEMENT – 3 Performances
Only! August 11, 12, & 13 at 9pm
Tickets: $20. / http://www.toprotectthepoets.com
(New York – July 13, 2010) Manhattan Repertory
Theater’s Summerfest 2010 presents the world premiere of To Protect
the Poets, a new play by John Doble. The cast of nine includes
Patricia Damon, Richard Fiske, Elizabeth Dilley, Cora Poage, Todd Tour’e,
Reza Salazar, Keet Davis, Morgan Parpan, and Kiat-Sing Teo. Performances
will be held at The Manhattan Repertory Theater, 303 West 42nd
Street, 3rd Floor, in New York City on August 11, 12 & 13
at 9pm.
Two detectives stand over the dead body of
a young woman who has been raped and murdered. Their investigation leads
them to a lonely poetry teacher and her sisters to learn if they saw anything
that might shed light on the nearby crime. What happens when a detective
and his potential witness fall deeply in love, and she learns that to protect
women like herself, the man she loves commits an act that violates her
deepest principles? When violence, revenge, justice, and passion collide,
our need for love challenges the strength of our principles.
Playwright John Doble states, “To Protect
the Poets portrays both timeless and contemporary emotional and social
conflicts, paralleled with motifs in classic literature and runs that gamut
from comedy to pathos. I'd like to think that John Patrick Shanley, and
the late August Wilson and Wendy Wasserstein, just some of the playwrights
I admire most, would enjoy it.”
John Doble (Playwright/Director) -
To Protect the Poets (Finalist, National Arts Club new plays contest,
2010; semi-finalist, Reverie Productions Next Generations Playwrights Contest,
2010); The Mayor Who Would Be Sondheim(International Fringe Festival,
NYC, 2005; HRC Showcase Theatre, Hudson, NY, 2006. Finalist, Stage 3 Theatre
Company Festival of New Plays, Sonora, CA, 2004; Playwrights’ Center’s
New Play Competition, Minneapolis, MN, 2005; TRU Reading Series, NYC, 2005);
Blind Date, a one act play (Samuel French Short-Play Festival, NYC,
2004; selected for The Last Frontier Theater Conference, Valdez, AK, 2005);
The Mortgage (Pulse Ensemble Theatre Festival of One-Act Comedies,
NYC, 2004); Lefty and Other Stories, a collection of short fiction,
Clemson University, 2004 (nominated for the Pushcart Prize and The Southern
Review Short Fiction award).
To Protect the Poets opens
Wednesday, August 11 and runs through Friday, August 13 for three performances,
each at 9pm.
To Protect the Poets is performed
in two acts with one intermission.
More information is available at http://www.ToProtectThePoets.com
.
Tickets are $20.00 and can be purchased by
calling 646-329-6588. If a performance has not sold out in advance, tickets
are also available in person at the box office one half hour before show
time. Please call ahead to reserve.
Michael Palmer is the associate producer
of To Protect the Poets. Director: John Doble; Lights/Sound:
Bethany Briggs; Stage Manager: Jenn Archuleta; Publicist: Paul Siebold.
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