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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 22, 2007
Brown Theatre
Contact: Brian Gaston, Box Office Manager
(401) 863-2730
Brian_Gaston@brown.edu
Fax (401) 863-7529

The Cast Photographer Brian Gaston	Sarah Tolan-Mee ‘09 Photographer Brian Gaston	Sarah Tolan-Mee ‘09 Photographer Brian Gaston

Brown Theatre and Sock & Buskin present:

Melancholy Play

By Sarah Ruhl

Directed by Ken Prestininzi

November 8-11 & 15-18, 2007
Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 8 PM and Sundays at 2 PM

Leeds Theatre
77 Waterman Street, Providence, RI 02912
Box Office: (401) 863-2730
For tickets and more information: www.brown.edu/tickets

Brown Theatre presents Melancholy Play, a comedy by MacArthur-winning playwright (and Brown alum) Sarah Ruhl.

Tilly’s melancholy is of an exquisite quality. She turns her melancholy into a sexy thing, and every stranger she meets falls in love with her. One day, inexplicably, Tilly becomes happy, and wreaks havoc on the lives of her paramours. Frances, Tilly’s hairdresser, becomes so melancholy that she turns into an almond. It is up to Tilly to get her back.

Sarah Ruhl received the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Prize in 2004 for her play The Clean House, seen last season at Trinity Repertory Company.  Her plays have been produced throughout the U.S. and Europe at such venues as the Lincoln Center Theater, the Actor’s Centre (London), the Goodman Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, and Berkeley Repertory Theatre, among many others.  In 2006 she received the MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Grant. 

Brown Theatre is also very pleased to announce that Sarah Ruhl will join us for a discussion of her work, free and open to the public, on Thursday, October 15 at 5:00 PM in Leeds Theatre. 

CAST LIST:

Frank: A tailor................. Byron Asher ‘08
Tilly: A bank teller................. Sarah Tolan-Mee ‘09
Frances: A hairdresser................. Phoebe Neidhardt ‘09
Joan: A British nurse................. Katherine Cooper ‘09
Lorenzo the Unfeeling: A psychiatrist................. Patrick Harrison ‘08
Julian: A cello player................. Colin Baker ‘08