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Return of the Bedbug Press Release
(press photos available in the Gallery)
Virginia Braxs
Managing Director
PRESS RELEASE
For immediate release
September 21, 2007
Upstream Theater presents the world premiere of Return of the Bedbug October 26-28 and November 1-4 and 8-11, 2007.
Upstream Theater is pleased to present a new play Return of the Bedbug by Philip Boehm, inspired by Vladimir Mayakovsky’s The Bedbug. Performances are October 26-28, November 1-4 and 8-11 at 305 S. Skinker Blvd. (at Fauquier between Clayton and Wydown). All shows are at 8 PM except Sundays at 7 PM.
Mayakovsky’s 1929 satire portrayed a roguish wheeler-dealer frozen at that time and unfrozen fifty years later, in a future world that proved to have little room for him and even less understanding. Return of the Bedbug uses a similar conceit to show a man in the Soviet Union of the mid 1980s who is frozen in time and wakes up some twenty years later in the United States of America. A comically grotesque study of one man caught in a clash of cultures.
Starring J. Samuel Davis as Prisypkin, with Briston Ashe, Kari Ely, Joe Hanrahan, Don McClendon, Jane Paradise, and Carl Overly, Jr. Live music by Farshid Soltanshahi (some nights with Ali Bazargani). Onscreen cameos by Carrie Houk and Laurie McConnell. Directed by Philip Boehm. Set design by Igor Karash. Costumes by Julia Graham. Lighting by Patrick Huber. Video production by Bobby Miller.
Tickets are $20, $18 for seniors, and $15 for students. Special group discounts available. For reservations please call 863-4999 or email upstreamtheater@sbcglobal.net.
Upstream Theater is a professional production company dedicated to presenting new works and inventive stagings of classical plays, with a special focus on joint ventures involving artists from other countries. We operate under a full contract with Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States.
With support from: the Arts and Education Council of St. Louis, the Enterprise Rent-a-Car Foundation; the Fox Associates Foundation; the Kerr Foundation, Inc.; the Missouri Arts Council, a state agency; the Regional Arts Commission; the Trio Foundation of St. Louis; and the Whitaker Foundation.
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