ENEWS
FROM THE VORTEX
May,
2007
CELEBRATING THIRTY YEARS OF
THEATRE AT THE VORTEX
Opening
Friday!
Opening
Night Special!
Related
Events!
Sunday
Play Reading Series!
Upcoming
Events!
!!OPENING FRIDAY!!
(FOR
FOUR WEEKENDS)
Sophie
Faucher’s
LA CASA
AZUL
translated by Neil Bartlett
directed
by Valli Marie Rivera
Michelle
Allred as Frida, Steven Martinez as Diego
and
Amelia Teicher as La Pelona and ensemble
MAY 11
THROUGH JUNE 3
OPENING
NIGHT SPECIAL EVENT
Want to
have fun and see La Casa Azul for
half-price?
On
opening night, each person who comes in costume as Frida Kahlo or Diego Rivera
will pay $6.00 admission instead of the regular $12.00. So head for the Internet or the Public
Library and sharpen your eyebrow pencil!
PERFORMANCE
TIMES
Fridays
and Saturdays at 8:00 PM
Sundays
at 6:00 PM
(Door
opens one half hour before “Curtain”.)
ADMISSION
$12.00
per person
(Cash,
Checks, Visa and MasterCard at the door)
RESERVATIONS
Call
505-247-8600
OR
Email
reservations@vortexabq.org
OR
click on
this web address: www.vortexabq.org; when the page comes up click on “Reservations”; fill
out the form; and click “Submit”.
PLEASE
REMEMBER! Reservations unclaimed by
fifteen minutes before curtain may be sold.
MAKING
RESERVATIONS
The
Vortex phone, email, and web site are available to you for making reservations
24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
However, in order for us to process your reservations, we must ask your
cooperation in one specific matter.
If you are making reservations on the day of the performance you wish
to attend, please make them before 3:00 PM. For example, if it is Friday and you
want to attend that night’s performance, please make your reservation before
3:00 PM. The same for Saturday and
Sunday.
You are
always welcome at the Vortex without reservations, but we cannot always
guarantee you seats.
PARENTAL
ADVISORY
(because
some of you have asked)
Language
and Adult Themes
LA CASA AZUL RELATED
EVENTS
May
11: Opening Night Party
following the performance.
May
13: Pay What You Will
performance.
May
20: Talkback with cast,
director, and crew.
AFTER
EVERY PERFORMANCE: Audience members
will have the opportunity to paint their impressions of the play on the walls of
The Vortex, using the colors Frida herself would use if she were
there.
FOR MORE
INFORMATION ABOUT LA CASA AZUL PLEASE
GO TO
PLAY
READING SERIES
FOR MORE INFORMATION GO
TO
A STAGED
READING FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
By Mark
Dunn
SUNDAY,
MAY 13 AT 1:00 pm
(PLEASE NOTE NEW TIME)
TALK-BACK With Playwright and Cast
Follows.
Starring Lori Stewart and
Ninette Mordaunt, featuring Teddy Egleston, Thane Kenny, Mike Miller and Morgain
Davison, and introducing Caroline Patz, this funny and poignant family drama
tells the story of the day Carmela Spools returns home after seven years. Her
daughter, her mother, and others are waiting. Will the secrets that drove
her away finally be uncovered? At what cost?
Playwright Mark Dunn
lives with his wife
Mary in Albuquerque, New
Mexico. Dunn has written over twenty-six plays including Belles and
Five Tellers Dancing in the Rain, which opens June 1 at the Adobe
Theatre. Dunn has been playwright-in-residence with the New Jersey Repertory Company and the
Community Theatre League in Williamsport,
Pennsylvania. He has also written three novels, Ella
Minnow Pea (2001), Welcome to Higby (2002), and Ibid: A
Life (2004).
COMING
ATTRACTIONS
THE MYSTERY OF
IRMA
VEP
by
Charles Ludlum
directed
by Zane Barker
JUNE 15
THROUGH JULY 15