Miners Alley Playhouse presents Fiction March 11, 2011

Miners Alley Playhouse presents

Fiction

by Steven Dietz

Directed by Richard H. Pegg

Miners Alley Playhouse continues their 2011 season with “Fiction” March 11 through April 24. Performances are Fridays and Saturday at 7:30 p.m.; Sundays at 6 p.m.; *(Sunday, April 24 is at 2 p.m.; no 6 p.m. performance that day) Tickets are $19.00 - $26.50 with senior, student and group rates available. Tickets are available by calling 303-935-30a44 or online at minersalley.com.

Opening night features a great, gala hors d’ oeuvres reception after the show; audience is invited to join the festivities and mingle with the cast. On Saturday, March 19, Miners Alley holds its "Second Saturday Members Appreciation Night" and conversation with the cast and crew after the performance.

Linda and Michael Waterman are both successful writers and thrive on their unusually honest and candid relationship. However, when they decide to share their diaries with one another, the boundaries between past and present, fact and fiction, trust and betrayal begin to break down.

The cast, under the direction of Richard Pegg, includes Tom Borrillo, Rhonda Brown and Kate Avallone.

There is a point in the play where Linda’s novel “At the Cape” is recounted by her husband Michael. In the novel a young woman stands at the tip of Africa, a place called False Bay. In the distance she sees a line of white water, perhaps a trick of the light. She is told by a local that it is “The meeting of the waves. That place where two worlds collide.”

Attached is a photo of Director Richard Pegg standing at that tip of Africa hoping to see the mythical white line where the Indian and Atlantic Oceans meet.

Steven Dietz was born and raised in Denver, Colorado. He graduated in 1980 with a B.A. in Theatre Arts from the University of Northern Colorado, after which he moved to Minneapolis and began his career as a director of new plays at The Playwrights' Center and other local theaters. During these years he also formed a small theatre company (Quicksilver Stage) and began to write plays of his own. A commission from ACT Theatre to write "God's Country" took him to Seattle, Washington in 1988. He now divides his time between Seattle and Austin, Texas where he teaches playwriting and directing at the University of Texas at Austin.

Miners Alley Presents "Fiction" - The boundaries between past and present, fact and fiction, trust and betrayal begin to break down. Mar. 11 - Apr. 24, Fri./Sat. 7:30 p.m.; Sun. 6 p.m. *( Sunday, Apr 24 at 2 p.m. only). Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Avenue (corner of 13th & Washington - 2nd floor). Tickets: $19 - $26.50. Call 303-935-3044 or online at www.minersalley.com