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Catered by Camille's Sidewalk Cafe
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Load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Coal Creek by Walter Thinnes
Directed by Dr. Brian Haimbach
Special prices: $10 adults, $5 students
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More than 7,500 strikers walked out of nearly 100 coal mines in the Paint Creek and Cabin Creek coal fields of West Virginia during the bloody 1912-1914 labor war. Coal Creek is the story of one family’s turmoil, caught in the cross hairs of that struggle.
The winner of our 2009 New Play Festival, Walter Thinnes’ Coal Creek was chosen from among scores of works submitted by playwrights across the country. Director Brian Haimbach’s cast includes Bruce Meahl, Justin Walker, Jeff Warren, Alyx Clements and Olivia Wilusz.
Tickets to this world premiere production are $10 for adults and $5 for students.
The 2010 New Play Festival will be funded, in part, by the Dramatists Guild of America, the professional association of American playwrights. Described by Tony-nominated playwright Lee Blessing as “one of the most important elements of contemporary play development (in) the region,” the nationally-recognized festival’s previous winners include Guided Tour, The Edith Whartons, The Legacy and The Uncurled Hand.
Coal Creek will run January 21-30 with 8 p.m. performances January 21-23 and 28-30 and a 3 p.m. mantinee on Sunday, January 24. Performances will be given on Thursdays-Sundays ONLY. All seats reserved. The box office can be reached at 864.233.6733 from 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.
Warren |
Meahl |
Clement |
Walker |
Wilusz |
Haimbach |
The company
Jeff Warren (Caleb) last appeared at Centre Stage as multiple characters in our production of A.R. Gurney’s The Dining Room. Prior to that, he appeared in several productions at the old Centre Stage theatre on Academy Street. Favorite roles include Arnold in The Boys Next Door, Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet, Cletus in Lonestar, Melvin P. Thorpe in The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas, David in The Spectator Sport, Mr. Bardolph in Lettice and Lovage, and Eddie in Lost In Yonkers. As a radio broadcasting veteran, Jeff worked several years as an announcer for various area radio stations including WSSL-100, WSPA-FM, and Talk Radio WPEK (the Peak).
Bruce Meahl (Quinn) – last appeared at Centre Stage in The God Committee. Bruce also has appeared in productions with the Greenville Little Theatre and the South Carolina Children's Theatre. Favorite roles include: The Baker in Into The Woods (GLT), Uncle Max in The Sound of Music (GLT & SCCT), Cogsworth in Beauty and The Beast (SCCT) and Frog in A Year With Frog & Toad (SCCT).
Alyx Clement (Lillian) returns to the stage after a short sabbatical. She was last seen in the park
getting ship-wrecked in Pericles and terrorizing cast and audience in The Miser for Upstate Shakespeare Festival. She looks forward to being indoors for a while and dedicates her performance in this production to her good friend Ben Brandeth.
Justin Walker (Joshua) is a graduate of North Greenville University with a BA in Theatre. He also has appeared onstage in Greenville with The Warehouse Theatre, The Distracted Globe, and South Carolina Children's Theatre. Most recently, Justin performed in a national tour for the Bright Star Touring Theatre of Asheville, NC.
Olivia Wilusz (Anna) is a freshman at Wade Hampton High School and a first-year theater student at the Fine Arts Center. She spent last summer studying drama at the Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities Discovery Summer Program. Actively involved in the Greenville theater community for the past 8 years, she has participated in over 15 shows at the South Carolina Children’s Theatre. At Centre Stage, she’s worked backstage and appeared onstage in Clear Lake: The Rock ‘n Roll Reunion, and in the reading of Class Dismissed during our 2009 New Play Festival.
Brian Haimbach (Director) received his Ph.D. in theater with a specialization in directing and new play development from University of Georgia. Chairman of our New Play Festival, he has directed extensively and performed throughout the country as an actor, singer and dancer. Directing credits include The Uncurled Hand (2007 New Play Festival winner), The Legacy (2008 New Play Festival winner), Hamlet, Marat/Sade, Top Girls, The Exonerated, Amadeus and The Rocky Horror Show, as well as numerous world premieres. Professionally, he has worked with Touchstone Theatre, Chicago Dramatists and the O’Neill Playwrights Conference. He is the head of the theater program at Greenville Technical College and active in the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, the Southeastern Theatre Conference and the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival.
Special ticket prices: $10 for adults and $5 for students!
PERFORMANCES THURSDAY-SUNDAY ONLY. All seats 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.
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