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Contact:
Trina Fischer                                                                                                                             
Co-Artistic Director
Phone: (347) 228-6438
trina@lookingforlilith.org
 
Women’s History Month brings
Genre- and Gender-Bending Script to the Stage

Join LFL for Orlando’s epic journey through time, geography and gender
Looking for Lilith’s 2016 March Women’s History Month production is Orlando by one of this country’s most exciting women playwrights. Pulitzer-nominated playwright Sarah Ruhl brings her imagistic writing to an inspired adaptation of Virginia Woolf's time-shifting, gender-bending novel Orlando. LFL’s production will be at Bellarmine University’s Black Box Theater, Wyatt Center for the Arts, February 25-27, 29, March 3-5 at 7:30p.m. and March 5 at 2p.m.  Tickets are $20 general admission and $15 for students and seniors. For the February 29 Community Night performance, as always, all tickets are priced at $10. Tickets may be purchased at www.lookingforlilith.org; for more information or to reserve tickets call (502) 638-2559.
 
Orlando will feature three newcomers to the Looking for Lilith stage, Victoria Reibel in the title role, Christie Charron Ruiz, and Scott Davis; returning to LFL are Keith McGill and Richie Goff. Co-Artistic Director Kathi E.B. Ellis helms the production as director. Company member Lindsay Chamberlin is the costume designer; returning to LFL are scenic designer Christé Lunsford, lighting designer Tom Willis, producer Haydee Canovas, and stage manager Nancy Clinton. Company member Karole Spangler is dramaturge; Paul T. Carney returns to LFL as sound designer; set construction and props management will be undertaken by company member Jill Marie Schierbaum; and Casey Clark joins LFL as technical director for this production.
 
Described as a literary love-letter to Vita Sackville-West, Woolf’s novel follows the character of Orlando across four centuries and several continents, a conceit that translates to the play script: “A woman plays a man. That man wakes up after a long slumber to discover he is a woman...a magnificent celebration of transcending as well as trans-gending." (The Daily Telegraph) Fully embracing the theatrical potential of Woolf's sprawling novel, Ruhl captures the wonder, inconceivability and sheer audacity of Orlando's epic journey, beautifully illustrating Woolf's notions of the fluidity of gender and identity, and the great mysteries of time. "Ruhl's poetically spare style dovetails with Woolf's prose and enhances the velocity of the novel while highlighting the still moments of contemplation within its momentum." (SFGate) "...Admirers of Woolf and Ruhl will be very happy with this [play], as will anybody looking for a good time, lots of laughter, and something to think about." (Examiner.com)
 
LFL's Women’s History Month production continues our season-long exploration of unheard voices, spanning geography and time, asking audiences to reflect on their own life journeys through the experiences of an eclectic group of characters. As Co-Artistic Director Kathi E.B. Ellis says, “I’m delighted to be directing another Ruhl play, especially one that lifts up an early feminist writer, one who asks us to re-examine our relationship to history and gender. It's a perfect Women's History Month journey for Lilith.” 
 
ORLANDO
by Virginia Woolf
Adapted by Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Kathi E.B. Ellis

Feb 25-27, 29*, Mar 3-5  | 7:30 pm
Mar 5 | 2:00 pm

Bellarmine University
Black Box Theater, Wyatt Center for the Arts
Norris PL & Bellarmine BLVD, Louisville, KY

TICKETS
www.lookingforlilith.org
$20 | $15 - Students/Seniors | CALL FOR GROUP RATES | *Community Night - $10
 
The Kentucky Arts Council, the state arts agency, provides operating support to Looking for Lilith with state tax dollars and federal funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.
 
For more info about LFL, visit:
www.lookingforlilith.org
or contact Trina Fischer, Co-Artistic Director,
 at (347) 228-6438 or trina@lookingforlilith.org.
LOOKING FOR LILITH THEATRE COMPANY is a Louisville, KY based not-for-profit, ensemble theatre company, founded in New York City in 2001 by Shannon Woolley Allison and Trina Fischer, both Louisville, Kentucky natives, along with Jennifer Thalman Kepler of Winchester, VA. The mission of this company is to present plays that re-examine history and question today through women’s perspectives, mainly via the collaborative creation of original theatre based on research. The company has grown to include Kathi E. B. Ellis, Sara G. B. Canary, Typh Hainer Merwarth, Kelly McNerney, Holly Stone, and Dawn Schulz with associate company members Karole Spangler, Laura Ellis, Ebony Nolana Jordan, Jill Marie Schierbaum and Lindsay Chamberlin.  LFL is on the touring rosters of the Kentucky Arts Council, the Kentucky Center for the Arts and Alternate ROOTS. They are members of Theatre Alliance of Louisville, Kentucky Theatre Association, The American Alliance for Theatre and Education, Alternate ROOTS and the Network of Ensemble Theatres. LFL received the 2010 Karen Willis Award from the Kentucky Theatre Association for artistic excellence and commitment to changing Kentucky through theatre. LFL has also been recognized for the past two consecutive years by the International Center for Women's Playwrights with their 50/50 Award for commitment to producing women playwrights.
 
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