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| Curtain times: Evenings at 8 p.m.; Sunday Matinees at 3 p.m. |
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The cast
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Role |
| David Johnston |
Zeke |
| Leslie D. Smith |
Glory |
| Sarah Hamilton |
Reggie |
| Jay Coffman |
Jason |
| Kyle Carrion |
Peter |
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The Uncurled Hand
July 10-19, 2008
Johnston |
Smith |
Coffman |
Hamilton |
Carrion |
Kilduff |
Safely secluded in the New Mexico desert, a Vietnam War-era draft resister named Zeke lives a life of contented self-exile with his wife and teenage daughter. But when his long-unacknowledged younger brother arrives bearing a bequest for Zeke’s daughter, the uncontrolled collision of past and present triggered by that bequest threatens to tear Zeke’s world apart.
Directed by Dr. Brian Haimbach, Stephen Kilduff’s The Uncurled Hand is the winner of our 2007 New Play Festival, a year-long, nation-wide search for new works for the American stage. The festival receives hundreds of scripts throughout the year submitted by playwrights from around the country and abroad. Centre Stage is one of only two professional theaters in South Carolina that mount full productions of new play festival winners and the only theater in the Upstate to do so.
Other works by Kilduff have been produced by the American Theatre of Actors in New York City and the Baltimore Playwrights Festival. His bibliography includes op-ed pieces published in the Baltimore Evening Sun, fiction in The Sun Magazine, poetry in Dancing Shadow Review, fiction in New York Press, and essays, articles and reviews in Baltimore City Paper, where he served as editor and contributing writer. Kilduff is the recipient of an Individual Artist Award in Playwriting from the Maryland State Arts Council.
Stage veterans David Johnston and Leslie D. Smith will originate the roles of Zeke and his wife, Glory. They’ll be joined by USC-Upstate professor Jay Coffman and Sarah Hamilton, a rising junior at the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities. Zeke’s desert home will be designed by North Greenville University professor of theater Marlaina Seay.
This
world-premiere production of
Stephen Kilduff’s The Uncurled Hand runs July 10-19 with 8 p.m. performances July 10-12 and 17-19 and one 3 p.m. matinee July 13. Ticket prices are $10 for adults and $5 for students. All seats are reserved. The box office can be reached at 864.233.6733 2-6 p.m. Tuesday-Friday and 2 hours before performances. The theater is located at 501 River Street inside the Citi-Smith-Barney building just one block off Main Street in downtown Greenville.
The director: Dr. Brian Haimbach earned his Ph.D. in theatre with a specialization in directing and new play development from University of Georgia. He has directed extensively and performed around the country as an actor, singer and dancer. Directing credits include Hamlet, Marat/Sade by Peter Weiss, Top Girls by Caryl Churchill, The Exonerated by Blank and Jensen, Amadeus by Peter Shaffer and The Rocky Horror Show as well as numerous world premieres. Professionally he has spent time with Touchstone Theatre, Chicago Dramatists and the O’Neill Playwrights Conference. Brian is head of the theatre program at Greenville Technical College and is active in the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, the Southeastern Theatre Conference and the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival.
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