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Helen's Necklace Press Release
(press photos available in the Gallery)
UPSTREAM THEATER
P.O. Box 300006
St. Louis, MO 63130
Virginia Braxs
Managing Director
PRESS RELEASE
For immediate release
September 12, 2005
Upstream Theater is pleased to announce the US premiere of HELEN’S NECKLACE by award-winning Quebecois playwright Carole Fréchette, translated by John Murrell and directed by Philip Boehm. The deceptively simple script shows a woman from North America who has traveled to an unnamed Arab city scarred by recent conflict, where her search for a missing necklace becomes an intense journey of discovery. Subtle, timely and powerful, HELEN’S NECKLACE takes us on a poetic voyage of our own, to a place we hear so much about but know so little, and where loss is measured in a different magnitude.
We are a professional company dedicated to bringing an international perspective to local theater, and this fall we are honored and excited to be the first theater in the United States to present a writer as important as Carole Fréchette. And how appropriate for St. Louis to host this premiere, given our long ties to French-speaking Canada, which began with Marquette and Joliette and remain very active to this day. (Did you know that Canada is by far Missouri’s leading foreign market absorbing over 40% of our exports, more than the state’s next fourteen foreign trading partners together?) Now we can follow another intrepid Canadian as she leads us on an exploration of a completely different part of the world...
Performances will run September 23-25 and September 29-October 2 at New City School at 5209 Waterman Blvd. in the Central West End. Thurs-Sat at 8 PM and Sundays at 3 PM. Starring Jane Paradise, Don McClendon, and Ayse Eren, with live music by Farshid Soltanshahi.
The author will be in attendance at the opening.
Tickets are $18 general admission; $12 students/seniors. Group discounts available. For reservations call 314-863-4999 or 314-863-0570 or email us at upstreamtheater@sbcglobal.net. For further information and directions please visit www.upstreamtheater.org.
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