The Ape on the Church Steps by JM Dinson directed by Barry Feinstein

presented by Theatrical Mining Company
Copeland Theater, LeClerc Hall, College of Notre Dame of Maryland
4701 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21210
August 13 - August 30, 2009
Thurs - Sat at 8 pm; Sun at 7 pm
Thurs: pay what you can, Fri-Sat: $13, Sunday (except closing night): 2 for 1
Reservations: website or 410-982-6979

The director has asked that the synopsis not be presented.

...[The Ape on the Church Steps] is the most accomplished offering so far in the Baltimore Playwrights Festival..

Local playwright JM Dinson has the good sense to make going insane look like the only sane response to a disintegrating world.

All the right dramatic elements are percolating...

From the closing moments of Act I through the final blackout, Dinson piles climax upon climax...

Cast Kate McKenna - Faith Will Amland - Dr. Luvitz Michael Zemarel - Arthur Easy Jr. Babs Dentz -- Rose Easy Steve Lichtenstein - Arthur Easy Sr. Tyrone Requer - Sr.'s Special Friend (13th, 15th, 21st, 22nd, 28th, and 30th) Marc Stevens - Sr.'s Special Friend (14th, 16th, 20th, 23rd, 27th and 29th)	Click on photo for larger image (not suitable for print media) Please click on bottom link for media-quality
Arthur Easy, Sr. (Steve Lichtenstein) has been locked away for ten years. After numerous visits from a Special Friend and therapists, he is reunited with his son, Arthur, Jr. (Michael Zemarel) photo by Philip Laubner 1277x870: 300dpi	Faith (Kate McKenna, back left) and Dr. Luvitz (Will Amland, back right) are dumbfounded at the "episode" of the younger Mr. Easy (Michael Zemarel) photo by Philip Laubner 1286x854: 300dpi
Arthur Easy, Sr. (Steve Lichtenstein) and his son Arthur Easy, Jr. (Michael Zemarel) cannot even have a conversation without the presence and opinions of Special Friend 2 (Marc Stevens) photo by Philip Laubner 1306x837: 300dpi	Special Friend 1 (Tyrone Requer) is an ever-present hallucination of Arthur Easy, Sr. (Steve Lichtenstein) even as he tries to have a conversation with his son, Arthur, Jr. (Michael Zemarel) photo by Philip Laubner 1303x837: 300dpi
Rose (Babs Dentz) tells her devastated son Mr. Easy, Jr. (Michael Zemarel) about her plans to sell her house all of her possessions to fund her "spiritual journey" photo by Philip Laubner 1256x855: 300dpi	Arthur Easy Sr. (Michael Lichtenstein) and Rose (Babs Dentz) try to put the pieces of their marriage and family back together photo by Philip Laubner 1286x854: 300dpi
Arthur Sr.'s special friend is played on alternate nights by Tyrone Requer (left) and Marc Stevens (right) photo by Philip Laubner 1256x849: 300dpi	Cast & Crew (back, left to right) Barry Feinstein, Marc Stevens, Will Amland, Tyrone Requer, Emma Schkloven (front) Kate McKenna, Michael Zemarel, Steve Lichtenstein, JM Dinson, Babs Dentz photo by Philip Laubner 1263x838: 300dpi