From ACTORS COLLABORATIVE TOLEDO
Actors Collaborative Toledo (ACT) opens its 10th season with the area premiere of the comedy “Fourteen Funerals” by local playwright Eric Pfeffinger.
The play is directed by Toledo theater veteran Jennifer Nagy Lake and will be performed in the studio theatre at Owens Community College Center for Fine and Performing Arts on Friday, Sept. 15 and 16 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, Sept 17 at 3 p.m. Tickets can be purchased in advance at www.act419.org or at the door beginning one hour before curtain.
Local actors Aja D. Reynolds and Hali Malecki star in this quirky, smart comedy about family and the stories we tell about people we may never really know. It’s weird when city girl Sienna (played by Reynolds) gets a cryptic phone call about the untimely deaths of some distant family members in small-town Blissfield, Indiana. Weirder yet is the way they expect her to deliver eulogies for relatives she’s never met. But weirdest of all: Sienna goes there. Maybe she’s hoping for a big inheritance. Maybe she just really needs to get away from her dead-end life in Chicago. But what she never expected was the tumultuous and rewarding relationship that she develops with Millie (played by Malecki), the peculiarly sunny employee of the Blissfield funeral home.
Playwright Eric Pfeffinger resides in Toledo and is a member of the Dramatists Guild and theWriters Guild of America, East. His plays include “Human Error,” “Some Other Kind of Person,” “Melto Man and Lady Mantis,” “The Occupier’s Tragedy,” and “Lost and Foundling.” They have been produced by Actors Theatre of Louisville’s Humana Festival of New American Plays; the Denver Theatre Center; the Geva Theatre Center; the InterAct; and others.
Owens Community College Center for Fine and Performing Arts is at 7270 Biniker Road, Perrysburg.
