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BINGE Final Performance at LOOP

March 14th @ 5 p.m.

Rite of Passage Theatre Company presents the world premiere of Thomas Ward's BINGE, winner of Stage West's 2009 Texas Playwriting Competition. The play will receive its premiere at WaterTower Theatre's 2010 Out-of-the-Loop Fringe Festival under the direction of Clay Wheeler. BINGE will run in the studio space at WaterTower the following dates/times: March 4th @ 7:30 p.m., March 7th @ 2:00 p.m., and March 14th @ 5:00 p.m. Tickets are $10 and currently on sale. To purchase tickets, click here or call the WaterTower box office at 972.450.6232. WARNING: BINGE contains adult language and situations and is intended for mature audiences only.

CAST
Doug Barnes........................................................Mark C. Guerra
Dr. Wilson............................................................ James Prince
Chris............................................................ Roger Schwermer
Beth..................................................................... Rachel Hall

PRODUCTION TEAM
Director..............................................................Clay Wheeler
Stage Manager.............................................. Christopher Eastland
Producer............................................................ Matthew Clark
Set Designer........................................................Amber Jackson
Costume Designer...................................................Maggie Talley
Sound Designer....................................Clay Wheeler/Matthew Clark
Dramaturg.......................................................... Melissa Flower
Dresser..........................................................Cameron Wheeler



Here's what Dallas critics have to say about RPTC: 

Holy Mother of God
:

"Another local boy...who returned to show it off was Plano native Clay Wheeler, a Baylor graduate working for the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Connecticut. His play Holy Mother of God successfully combined religion and cool, and Baylor grad student Amber Jackson staged it beautifully for Rite of Passage Theatre Company."

-Lawson Taitte
Dallas Morning News
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"Holy Mother has some divine material"

"All three of them sell it, thanks to the assured direction of Amber Jackson (who also designed the production)."

"Bann, in particular, is brilliant at this in Holy Mother of God."

"Goldman is terrific, adding some needed snark and attitude to the Virgin Mother. For her character, Wheeler has penned some funny, but never offensive, lines and scenes (the Virgin chomping on a corndog is priceless)."

-Mark Lowry
TheaterJones.com
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"Baylor seems to be turning out theater artists that take religion very seriously without failing to be cool."

"The playing is amusing and even touching...extremely promising and unique in its attitudes."

"The acting is very strong"

-Lawson Taitte
GuideLive.com
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Angry Glances:

 

“It’s a pretty believable run-down and a hell of a laugh.”

“Wheeler’s play on revenge, showing how one man’s love for his teacher ends in her death and a triple-accusation, is well done as a riff on Hamlet if a little hastily drawn. The play cleverly shifts between past and present, ending abruptly, jarringly...”

“Quinten Quintero as Gray Mattson, the hapless student, ably transitions between conflicted lover and bumbling college kid. Cassie Bann as Holly, his nymphomaniac girlfriend, out Lavenders Ron Weasley’s quasi-succubus, Lavender Brown. Marianne Galloway and Charles Ryan Roach as the loveless couple who sympathize in their shared sorrow, the Ingrams, give sad, dark performances.”

“Angry Glances is an eerily placid piece that disturbs…The production’s strength lies in its casting, in the tension the play builds between its characters both in pairs and as a group, and in the script’s understated menace, its intelligence, and its use of surprise.”

-Joan Arbery,
Renegade Bus

“Wheeler's fragmentary narrative technique is interesting…”

“…director Christopher Eastland has coaxed the actors to some excellent performance[s]. Recent Southern Methodist University graduate [Quinten] Quintero makes a forceful, nuanced professional debut. [Marianne] Galloway, best known as a director, has made remarkable strides as a performer; she's sexy, aggressive, mature and vulnerable all at once in this one.”

- Lawson Taitte, 
                                                                                                             Dallas Morning News

“Lots of well-respected local talent pulled together to help Rite of Passage Theatre Company produce the original play Angry Glances.”

“All four performers create lively, believable characters and are well suited to their roles.”

- Alexandra Bonifield, 
Critical Rants & Raves 

 



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