Chesapeake
Chesapeake
by Lee Blessing
Starring Charlie Flynn-McIver
Directed by Angie Flynn-McIver
20 - 31 August 2008
Wednesday - Saturday at 7:30, Sunday at 2:00
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NC Stage turns seven this year! What better way to celebrate lucky number seven than with $7 tickets and a dark and delightful comedy about art, politics, and a dog named (what else?) Lucky. That's right all tickets are $7. Art. Politics. Dogs. Three disparate subjects are seamlessly woven together in Lee Blessing’s provocative play. What begins as a tussle over public art funding between a provocative performance artist named Kerr and conservative southern senator Therm Pooley quickly billows into a much broader battle that forces both men to completely re-think the value of art. Caught in the middle is Lucky, the senator’s beloved Chesapeake Bay Retriever. Blessing’s joyous one-man play ultimately spares no one on either side of the political divide.
In addition to a 2007 production in Asheville, NC Stage took Chesapeake to the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center in Charlotte this spring. The production has been critically acclaimed in both cities:
“It’s a masterful bit of acting, showing again that [Charlie Flynn-McIver is among the top players in the local scene.”
-- Asheville Citizen-Times, 2007.
“Charles Flynn-McIver is a fluent, agreeable narrator…His wife, Angie Flynn-McIver has shaped his performance carefully and/or found an unobtrusive staging that lets Blessing’s words shine or sting as they should.”
-- The Charlotte Observer, 2008.
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