The San Luis Obispo Little Theatre is proud to present Matthew Barber’s delightful period comedy, Enchanted April, running April 12-May 5, 2013 at the Little Theatre Playhouse, 888 Morro Street in downtown San Luis Obispo. Set on a sun-soaked Italian hillside, Enchanted April tells the story of two frustrated housewives in post-World War I London who rent a villa in Italy for a much-needed holiday away from loss, the rainy, depressing city and their bleak marriages. The ladies recruit two very different English women to share the cost and the experience. There, among the wisteria blossoms and Mediterranean sunshine, all four bloom again and rediscover themselves in ways they never could have imagined.
Directed by Teresa Thuman, the play will feature an ensemble cast of notable local actors, including Angela Hutt, Bob Peterson, Wendy-Marie Martin, Cory Schonauer, David Norum, Jean Miller, Alicia Klein, and Rosh Wright. Teresa Thuman is a freelance professional director based in Seattle. During the 1990’s, she was an artist-in-residence, director and actress at PCPA Theaterfest in Santa Maria and also directed at the popular Centerpoint Theater Group in San Luis Obispo. Her recent directing credits include the critically acclaimed Urinetown at Bainbridge Performing Arts, The Book of Nathan at Theater Schmeater; Anything Goes, High Society, My Way: A Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra at Seattle’s CLO; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Tartuffe and Oliver! for Driftwood Players; Pericles for Cornish College of the Arts and numerous new-work projects for the Mae West Fest, Fringe Festival, Theatre4Play Festival, Midtown International Theatre Festival, TPS Beyond the Frame, Theatre Babylon and the Experimental Theatre Project. At the Oregon Shakespeare Festival she served as Assistant Director for The Merchant of Venice and The Merry Wives of Windsor.
Performances are on Fridays and Saturdays at 7 pm, Saturdays and Sundays at 2 pm. Tickets are $22-$25 with discounts available for seniors (62+) and students. Tickets are available online at here or by calling the box office at (805) 786-2440.
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