Carver's Pieces May 31, 2007

Thu-Fri and Sat shows only.

The Community Theatre presents Carver's Pieces. Raymond Carver, a native of the Northwest, wrote some of the most powerful American fiction of the twentieth century, and his work still cleaves to and illuminates our American landscape. Adapted to the stage and directed by John Abramson, these three pieces, "Fat", "What's In Alaska?", and "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" deal with the terrifying currents that flow through ordinary human life in this country. A powerful and acute look at the lives of everyday people thrown together in their isolation, desperately seeking a means to make sense of the incoherence of their suffering. Each story - a waitress serving a fat customer, two married couples getting high together, and a group of friends talking about love over gin and tonic -reveals Carver at his best; a resolute and unblinking look at the conditioning forces that scorch people's lives, leaving them helplessly stranded with one another, and causing them to misunderstand life, even when it is plain and simple.

Tickets : $ 15.00 general
$12.oo students, senior, tps members

A limited amount of tickets will be sold at the door.
No late seating.

Note : Herbal cigarettes smoked on stage.

The Youngstown Cultural Arts Center offers free parking. There is also parking available on the street.

From Interstate 5 or State Route 99, take the West Seattle Bridge Exit. Take the Delridge Way SW (South Seattle Community College) Exit. Turn Left into the Youngstown Cultural Center parking lot just past SW Genesee Street at 4408 Delridge Way SW.

Official Website: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/10925/