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Wednesday, December 29, 2010

COLBERT & LUNA STAGE: PERFECT TOGETHER!

Love Stephen Colbert? Want to support local professional theater? Luna Stage, to be exact? Here’s a chance to experience both:

Stephen Colbert in a
Dramatic Benefit for Luna Stage

Sunday, January 9, 7 PM 
One Performance Only
!

Stephen Colbert, the multiple-Emmy Award-winning host of Comedy Central's satirical The Colbert Report, will trade his traditional comic persona for a dramatic role when he performs in a special reading of Harold Pinter's Betrayal to benefit Luna Stage.

Colbert, whose TV series has been acclaimed as "the best show of the year" by both The New York Times and Entertainment Weekly, will appear in the three-person reading, along with his wife, Evelyn McGee Colbert, and actor Jay O. Sanders. The reading will be directed by James Glossman.

Pinter's Betrayal, which premiered in 1978, is widely regarded as one of the British Nobel laureate's greatest dramatic works. Inspired by Pinter's own clandestine extramarital affair, it follows the seven-year affair involving a married couple, Emma and Robert, and Robert's close friend Jerry, who is also married.

It's one of mankind's oldest stories, but told through an innovative reverse-chronology structure, moving backwards in time from 1977 to Jerry's first drunken declaration of his feelings for Emma in 1968—always letting the audience draw its own conclusions about ethics and morality.

 

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TICKETS: $100
For tickets visit lunastage.org


Luna Stage Theatre Company

555 Valley Road
West Orange NJ 07052

973.395.5551