Next Black Box planned for March

What is a black box?

So-called “black box” productions are staged in the more intimate setting of the Town Meeting Hall, with limited sets and production values. The audience sits close to the action and the focus is on the text of the play rather than elaborate stage settings.

In early September the first Black Box Production,  the Tony award-winning drama Honour by Australian playwright Joanna Murray-Smith was presented in the Town Meeting Hall  to audience acclaim. 

Watch this space for details of the play, and performance times.

First production: Honour

Saturdays: Sept. 6 and 13, 8:00 p.m.
Sundays: Sept. 7 and 14, 3:00 p.m.
Danville Town Meeting Hall
201 Front Street, Danville
$10 at the door / reservations recommended: 925-820-1278

Role Players Ensemble presents the Tony award-winning drama Honour, by Australian playwright Joanna Murray-Smith as its first Black Box production of the 2008/2009 season.

The next Black Box is planned for March, with Stephen Rexrode and Rich Aiello who have appeared in Black Box presentations of Pinter's Betrayal, Margulies' Sight Unseen and  Frayn's Copenhagen.

A journalist interviews a prominent man about the success of both his life and career and as a result undermines it all. The author examines an all-too-common story in a very uncommon way from the perspectives all four characters: the man himself, his wife of 32 years, his 20 something daughter, and a late 20s journalist. How the wife and her daughter react—and what happens to her husband's new relationship—is explored with unusual honesty and complexity.

Director Lynne Elizondo was recently seen in RPE’s Black Box production of Talking With…. She has directed Jake’s Women, Enter Laughing (Shellie nomination), Prisoners of Love (an original piece by Joel Roster), and David Mamet’s Sexual Perversity in Chicago in Walnut Creek. She has also acted in multiple recent productions.

Chris Chapman and Barbara Halperin-Jacobs, played the husband and wife going through the trauma of the break-up of their 32-years of marriage.

The production features Chris Chapman as Gus (the husband) Barbara Halperin-Jacobs as Honor (the wife), Kristie Malone as Claudia (the lover) and Ashley Rae Pittson as Sophie (the daughter).

Honour will play at 8pm on Saturdays, September 6 and 13, and at 3pm on Sundays, September 7 and 14 in the Danville Town Meeting Hall, 201 Front St., Danville. Seating will be limited to ensure good sightlines and reservations may be made by leaving a message at (925) 820-1278. Tickets are $10 available at the door only.

Danville website: Town of Danville and Role Players Ensemble