Crowded Kitchen Players present 'Pints, Pounds, and Pilgrims'

Crowded Kitchen Players present

'Pints, Pounds, and Pilgrims'

an original farce by Ara Barlieb

SHOWCrowded Kitchen Players will present the comedy "Pints, Pounds & Pilgrims", an original play by playwright Ara Barlieb

BACKGROUNDThe play is inspired by a trip made by Theatre Outlet in September 2000 to the Island of Inishbofin off the coast of Connemara, County Galway, Republic of Ireland to stage an original Irish tragedy, 'Crackskull Row', by Irish born playwright Honor Molloy and starring her mother Yvonne Voight Molloy.Ara Barlieb and Pamela Wallace were Theatre Outlet board members who made a television documentary, entitled 'Pints, Pounds, and Pilgrims' of the voyage and adventure.The documentary aired on Irish and American television and will play in the IceHouse lobby before the show and at intermission.When Ara and Pamela were guests of Theatre Outlet managing and artistic directors Kate Scuffle and George Miller on their WDIY radio program last spring, the four of them reminisced about that Irish adventure to the point that they decided Crowded Kitchen Players would create a farce inspired by the experience.Once the play took shape, they vetted it with Kate and George, who now run Selkie Theatre, to assure them it wasn't going to be a sendup of the actual voyage.

SYNOPSISA manic Eng­lish stage direc­tor fever­ishly rehearses his long-‹suffering cast in an orig­i­nal Irish tragedy, 'A Bad Year for Pota­toes', intended as the head­lin­ing event of an arts fes­ti­val on the remote island of Inish­bofin of the coast of Connemara, Republic of Ireland.Mean­while, a strug­gling and somewhat tattered Amer­i­can din­ner the­ater company based in Hoboken, New Jersey mis­tak­enly believes it has been invited to per­form its orig­i­nal bed­room farce, "Don't Dress for Din­ner", at the same fes­ti­val.

WHERE and WHENFebruary 5, 6, 12, 13 at 8PM and February 7, 14 at 2 PM at The Charles Brown IceHouse, 56 River Street, Bethlehem, PA,February 19, 20 at 8 PM and February 21 at the Unicorn Theatre, 417 Front St. Catasauqua PA.

TICKETSTickets are $18, $14 Seniors, and $10 Students and may be purchased at www.ckplayers.com, 610-395-7176, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or at the door.

WHOThe Crowded Kitchen Players cast includes: Susan Burnett, Dan Ferry, Paula Klein, Brian McDermott, David 'Oz" Oswald, James Propst, Alexandra Racines, Steven Rosenbloom, Patti Squire, Michael Thew, Sarah Thomas, Scott VanNortwick, Pamela Wallace and Brian Wendt.Ara Barlieb is the director, and the stage manager is Steven Rosenbloom.