From ACTORS COLLABORATIVE TOLEDO
Actors Collaborative Toledo (ACT) will present the area premiere of Will Eno’s touching and quirky two-person show “Wakey, Wakey” will be performed Friday, April 12, and Saturday, April 13 at 8 p.m. with a Sunday matinee April 14 at 3 p.m. in the newly renovated performance space at Trinity Episcopal Church, 316 Adams St. in downtown Toledo.
Tickets can be purchased at www.act419.org.
The play, performed as a staged reading, features ACT co-founder Jeffrey J. Albright as Guy and is directed by another one of ACT’s co-founders, Barbara Barkan. Rounding out the cast is Thea Catherine Grabiec as Lisa.
The play will feature an original soundscape created by local musician Mark Owen and projected images that were featured in the original Off-Broadway production of the play designed by Peter Nigrini.
The New York Times called Will Eno’s “Wakey, Wakey” “a glowingly dark, profoundly moving new play.” It’s a funny, sad, tragic, comic examination of the many ways a life can run its course. In the first line of the show, Guy, the protagonist, seems to rouse from a nap and says “Is it now? I thought I had more time.” And then we’re off to an examination of Guy’s life, in a moving showcase of life’s messy entanglements and its moments of surprising beauty.
