| Austin Pendleton's "Uncle Bob" at Alchemical Studios - March 23-29, 2020 | |
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| R&R Productions Presents Uncle Bob A Controversial, Smart and Surprising Love Story Written by Austin Pendleton Directed by Shenendoah Thompson March 23-29, 2020 (9 performances ONLY) Monday-Sunday at 8pm; Saturday & Sunday at 3pm Opening Night: Monday, March 23rd at 8pm Alchemical Studios 104 West 14th Street New York, NY 10011 Tickets prices are $40. For tickets: unclebob.yapsody.com Direct Link: https://unclebob.yapsody.com/event/index/516716/uncle-bob-by-austin-pendleton Runtime: 90 minutes with no intermission (New York - February 7, 2020) - R&R Productions presents Uncle Bob, a seldom-produced controversial love story between an HIV-positive recluse and his homophobic nephew, Josh, who is desperate for his uncle's validation. Written by venerable playwright and performer Austin Pendleton, Uncle Bob stars Roger Banks and Shenendoah Thompson. Thompson also directs this intense, surprising, smart and profound American play with themes of sexual identity, love and redemption. Nine performances will be staged at Alchemical Studios, 104 West 14th Street in New York City from March 23-29, 2020. Uncle Bob lives in New York as an uproariously articulate hermit, separated from the wife to whom he is devoted - and who is devoted to him. He is visited by his nephew, Josh, who is without a job, without a completed college education, and without any sense of a future, all of which he faces with a wit and nervy desperation that finds its only match in his Uncle Bob. Uncle Bob has AIDS, and Josh has hitched from the Midwest, uninvited (profoundly uninvited), to take care of him. A loving and funny, abrasive and profane face-off ensues. "Originally from West Virginia, we now call New York City home; me arriving for a career in stand-up comedy, and Shenendoah pursuing his successful music, acting and directing career," stated Roger Banks, who plays Uncle Bob. "As performers, Uncle Bob speaks to us. I have been HIV-positive since 1994, and Shenendoah is in recovery from opioid addiction. We bring this life experiences to the play, and we are commitment to giving back by raising awareness through art. AIDS is not over, and opioids are destroying more families every day." Tickets are $40. Visit unclebob.yapsody.com . Performances will be staged Monday-Sunday at 8pm; and Saturday and Sunday at 3pm. The runtime is approximately 90 minutes with no intermission. Uncle Bob is presented by R&R Productions. Production Stage Manager/Assistant Director: Nora Elbayoumy; Technical Consultant: Jimmy Dewhurst; Publicist: Paul Siebold/Off Off PR. Roger Banks (Uncle Bob) is a 25-year survivor of HIV. He was born in the southern coalfields of West Virginia. Roger received his bachelor's degree from West Virginia University and two master's degrees in Education from West Virginia University and Marshall University. Roger was introduced to theater during college in the '80s where he "came out," disastrously, but found himself in theatre. He has appeared in The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey, Art by Jasmine Reza and other productions. He has directed American Dream and The Zoo Story by Edward Albee, Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, and Love, S*x and the IRS by Billie Van Zandt and Jane Milmore. Roger has appeared as a stand-up comic at various New York venues including Gotham Comedy Club and Comedy Cellar. He is an English, Communications, and Theater middle school and high school teacher. Roger is also a filmmaker whose current project is "For the Living," documenting the AIDS epidemic in Appalachia through the history of the Living AIDS Memorial Garden in Charleston, West Virginia. Roger has been an HIV/AIDS activist from the beginning of the epidemic, working at the local, state and national levels. The most important influence in his life is his coal miner father. "When I came out to him at the age of 13 in 1976, dad's first response was, 'I love you son.' That saved my life." Shenendoah Thompson (Director / Josh) was born in Morgantown, WV, and has been performing since he could walk. During his adolescence, he worked extensively at the Morgantown Theatre Company, while simultaneously performing with community theatre companies and the West Virginia University Theatre Department. Through this, he acted in and assisted with over a hundred various productions ranging from contemporary musical theatre such as "Fiddler on the Roof, Wizard of Oz, The Wiz, Honk!, and High School Musical, to more operatic titles such as "Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods, and Pirates of Penzance. Shenendoah has Directed dozens of plays and independent films, often at the helm of new works or multimedia productions. In 2015 the production of John Logan's RED, earned him a Best Actor Award for his portrayal of Ken and the Best Play Award at the West Virginia Theatre Association. As a singer-songwriter, Shenendoah has released two albums and three singles of his original compositions, and he is currently working on his third album. Always open to endeavor into any creative idiom, his future plans include producing his original screenplay and completing his mid-life memoir. He resides in Peekskill, New York with his loving fiancé, Stephanie. Austin Pendleton (playwright) is an actor, director, and playwright. He has acted in about 250 movies and appeared several times in such TV shows as "Homicide," "OZ," and the different versions of "Law and Order." Onstage in New York he has acted on Broadway (Choir Boy, at Manhattan Theatre Club; The Diary of Anne Frank, with Natalie Portman; and as Motel the Tailor in the original cast of Fiddler on the Roof); off-Broadway (Obie winner for The Last Sweet Days of Isaac; Rosmersholm, at Manhattan Theatre Club; Up From Paradise, a musical by Arthur Miller and Stanley Silverman, at Jewish Rep; Educating Rita, with Laurie Metcalf); and off-off Broadway (title roles in King Lear, Hamlet, Richard the Third, Richard the Second; new plays such as City Girls and Desperadoes, Dress of Fire, Consider the Lilies). As a director he has been represented by the premiere productions of: A Thousand Pines, by Matthew Greene; Between Riverside and Crazy, by Stephen Adly Giurgis, which went on to win the Pulitzer Prize; Fifty Words, by Michael Weller, with Elizabeth Marvel and Norbert Leo Butz; Chekhov productions at Classic Stage Company such as Three Sisters (for which he won the Obie, and which starred Maggie Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, and Jessica Hecht), Ivanov, which starred Ethan Hawke, and Uncle Vanya, with Mamie Gummer; A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur, by Tennessee Williams, with Kristine Nielsen and Annette O'Toole; War of the Roses (Shakespeare, at HB Studio); Hamlet (also at CSC, with Peter Sarsgaard); The Little Foxes, on Broadway, with Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton (five Tony nominations, one for direction and three for actors, including Ms. Taylor and Ms. Stapleton). He has written three plays: Orson's Shadow (which ran off-Broadway for a year and was then staged in London); Uncle Bob, (which ran at the Mint Theatre in New York, and was then staged in Paris, translated by Jean-Marie Besset), and Booth, which was done in New York starring Frank Langella. All of these plays have been published and have been done frequently around the United States. He has taught at HB since 1969. |
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