The powerful domestic
drama All Over by three-time Pulitzer Prize winning American
playwright Edward Albee (1928-2016) is scheduled for three matinee performance
by The Autumn Players (TAP) of Asheville Community Theatre (ACT):
Friday and Saturday, April 28th and 29th in 35below at
ACT, and Sunday, April 30th in the Manheimer Room at UNC Asheville's
Reuter Center. Curtain is at 2:30 pm. Tickets
are $6 and are available online at www.ashevilletheatre.org, by phone at 254-1320 or in person at the Asheville
Community Theatre box office. Any remaining
tickets will be sold by cash only at the door beginning at 2:00 pm prior to
each performance.
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| Anita Chapman, director |
Under the direction of
Anita Chapman, and in partnership with Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI)
at UNC Asheville, this is the third of five productions of the 2016-2017 season
of TAP's Readers Theatre Showcase. Auditions for All
Over will take place on April 11th, 2017, from 10:30 to 2:30 in
35below. They are open to the community. Rehearsals are at the same time
and place on April
13th, 18th, 20th, 25th, and 27th.
In All
Over, a family keeps vigil at the deathbed of a rich and famous public
figure. As pressmen wait outside for news to break, wife, mistress, adult
children, and best friend reminisce and bicker about the thwarted expectations,
betrayals, and unresolved conflicts in their relationships with the dying man.
Anita Chapman has
directed a variety of concert-style readings for TAP's Readers Theatre Showcase
program: The Trip to Bountiful, The Little Foxes, A
Delicate Balance, Uncle Vanya, Ghosts, Other
Desert Cities, The Winslow Boy. For the WNC Historical Association
and for OLLI, she directed Beneath Shelton Laurel and for the
Asheville History Center, The Raindrop Waltz. Former Chair of
The Autumn Players, Ms. Chapman was trained as a Dramaturg at the University of
Amsterdam.
The Autumn Players is
ACT's volunteer outreach group consisting of over 100 seasoned actors,
directors, writers, and educators dedicated to taking theatre into the
community. Since 1992, the company has provided entertainment, enrichment and
instruction for thousands of students, seniors, and in-betweens at venues
within an hour or more from Asheville.
For more information
or for a full schedule of the 2016-17 Readers Theatre Showcase series, please
visit www.ashevilletheatre.org.
