FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE....June 29, 2007
Contact David Turner, 518-798-7479, dturner@atfestival.org
ADIRONDACK THEATRE FESTIVAL
continues with one week run of
2.5 MINUTE RIDE
starring and
written by TONY AWARD NOMINEE
LISA KRON
8pm Performances July 9-14 at Charles R. Wood Theater
Special Senior
Citizen Matinee WED July 11, 4pm
All tickets half price ($14) for ages 60+
Free presentations
of 365 PLAYS/365 DAYS to follow each evening performance
at 9:30pm
The Adirondack Theatre Festival’s summer season of new
and contemporary professional theater continues with a
return to the region of Lisa Kron in 2.5 MINUTE RIDE.
Ms. Kron appeared in ATF’s very first season when she
performed her show 101 HUMILIATING STORIES at the Lake
George RV Park, and since then she and her work have
been seen on Broadway, across the country, and around
the world.
In 2.5 MINUTE RIDE Lisa Kron invites her audience on a
roller coaster ride through the Kron family album.
Rising and falling between high hilarity and deep
disquiet, Kron demonstrates with disarming simplicity
that humor and horror can share the same human moment.
The play switches back and forth between Kron's journey
to Auschwitz with her septuagenarian father, a Holocaust
survivor; her Michigan family's annual pilgrimage to a
Sandusky, Ohio, amusement park; and her brother's
marriage to his Internet bride. By moving seamlessly
between these three diverse memories, Kron creates a
complex and at times startling meditation on how human
beings make sense of tragedy, grief, and everyday
life. 2.5 MINUTE RIDE runs for one week only July 9
–14 at 8 o’clock every night and should not be missed!
Don’t miss ATF’s first ever senior matinee on July 11 at
4pm. All senior tickets are half-price.
Following each performance of 2.5 MINUTE RIDE, audiences
are invited to stay for a fifteen minute presentation of
the 365 PLAYS/365 DAYS. This national project
(www.365days365plays.com) which theaters were invited to
take part in presents the short plays that Pulitzer
Prize-winning playwright Suzan Lori Parks has been
writing – one for each day of the year. ATF Artistic
Associate Brenny Rabine will direct these, with 2-4
short plays (none are longer than 5 minutes) being
presented each night by a rotating cast of actors.
Admission is free and they will begin at 9:30pm.
The Adirondack Theatre Festival’s 13th season
will run June 27 – July 28 at the Charles R. Wood
Theater, 207 Glen St. in downtown Glens Falls. The Box
Office is located at the Charles R. Wood Theater, 207
Glen Street in Glens Falls and is open 12-6pm MON-SAT.
Also call 518-798-WOOD or go to
www.ATFestival.org. $9 rush tickets are available
to ages 23 and under the day of the show.
A PUBLICITY PHOTO OF LISA KRON
AS WELL AS OTHER ATF SHOWS PAST AND PRESENT ARE
AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD AT www.ATFestival.org/press.
