[RP TownTalk] [Fwd: [PEN] Forgotten Victorian classic to be staged anew]

[Don Lynch]

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Subject: 	[PEN] Forgotten Victorian classic to be staged anew
Date: 	Mon, 7 Sep 2009 11:28:33 -0400
From: 	Kathie Mack <twizzles at starpower.net>
Reply-To: 	pen at penhood.net
To: 	PEN list <pen at penhood.net>



Posted by Kathie Mack on Maple, hoping that many PENsters are still 
interested in seeing events postings.....

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*New Old Theater presents *
*/DOUBLE THE RENT!/** (a Victorian farce extraordinaire)*
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*Sept. 11 at 7:30 pm in College Park, MD* at the Old Parish House, 4711 
Knox Road, near the College Park Metro station on the Green Line. 
Admission is $5.
 
*Sept. 19 at 8:00 pm in Ellicott City, MD* at the Howard County 
Historical Society Museum, 8328 Court Avenue, off Main Street, in an old 
stone building intended as a church. Free parking behind the nearby 
courthouse. Admission is pay-what-you-can.
 
*Sept. 13, 25, 26, 27 at 8:00 pm in Baltimore, MD* at the Time and Tide 
Theater at the Fell’s Point Visitor Center, 1724 Thames Street. Previews 
of coming attractions will also be featured. On Sept. 13, 25, and 27 
admission is pay-what-you-can. On Sept. 26 admission is $15 ($10 
children, seniors, and students 17 and under).
 
Directed by Steven Lampredi, /Double the Rent!/ features performances 
by  Ian Blackwell-Rogers, James Gagne, and Katherine Mack. In 
nineteenth-century tradition, each evening will also include musical 
selections and novelties. For more information, contact Steven Lampredi 
at 703-926-1604 or lampredi2 at yahoo.com <mailto:lampredi2 at yahoo.com>.
 
Mr. Box and Mr. Cox share the same tiny room and neither one notices! 
One works all day, the other all night. It’s up to their wily landlady 
to keep them from meeting. How long can this last? You’ll roar with 
laughter (or groan) at the antics in this wry example of 
mid-nineteenth-century situation comedy, performed in the spirit of 
classic vaudeville.
 
Suitable for all ages,/ Double the Rent!/ displays many similarities to 
modern comedy. Comic conventions dating back to Roman times have endured 
through the centuries. This influence can be seen in nineteenth-century 
farces, the vaudeville of the early twentieth century, the comedy of 
Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, and more recently in the comedy of 
Lucille Ball, Jonathan Winters, Robin Williams, and Will Farrell.
 
New Old Theater’s actors apply this age-old knowledge to entertain 
audiences today with theatrical time travel. Journey with us into the 
past, to be delighted by a new rendition of a classic comedy from the 
1840s.
 

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