A Chance to See Two Great Plays
One play will end its run and anothe will have a brief three-day run in Downtown Asheville this weekend. One is a well-staple of American theater, and another is a lesser-known but equally deserving candidate.
Kimberly Akimbo plays at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday at the Asheville Community Theater. Tickets cost $10 and $15. Here’s a capsule:
“Set in the wilds of suburban New Jersey, this is a hilarious and heartrending play about a teenager with a rare condition causing her body to age faster than it should. When she and her family flee Secaucus under dubious circumstances, Kimberly is forced to reevaluate her life while contending with a hypochondriac mother, a rarely sober father, a scam-artist aunt, her own mortality and, most terrifying of all, the possibility of first love.”
Arthur Miller’s The Crucible shows at 7:30 Friday and Saturday and at 2 p.m. Sunday at the North Carolina Stage Company. Tickets cost $10. This timeless story satirizes a community gripped by paranoia at the height of the Red Scare.
The NC Stage Company’s performance is part of its (For) Play Series, in which actors have three days to rehearse a play and then perform it on a bare stage with no set, props or costumes. It’s theater stripped down to the essentials, in an intimate setting.
Posted by Mark Vanderhoff, an Asheville real estate agent with Coldwell Banker Kasey & Associates.
