God's Ear

by Jenny Schwartz

Directed by Eleni Papaleonardos.

June 11-20, 2009
@ Columbus Dance Theatre
592 East Main Street

Featuring: Acacia Duncan, Kate Watts, Richard Furlong, Kim Hopcraft, Nick Lingnofski, Michelle Schroeder, and Ian Short.

Lighting Design by Ryan Osborn
Sound Design by Jordan Fehr
Stage Management by Michelle Whited.

PAY WHAT YOU WANT. Every seat, every show, for everyone.

Schedule

Thursday, June 11 @ 8pm
– Join us for the Talkback and afterparty!
Friday, June 12 @ 12pm – with boxed lunch from Tip-Top
Friday, June 12 @ 8pm – Please join us for the Talkback.
Saturday, June 13 @ 8pm – Pre-show talk with Jeni’s Ice Cream sandwiches @ 7pm.
Sunday, June 14 @ 2pm

Friday, June 19 @ 8pm – Please join us for the Talkback.
Saturday, June 20 @ 8pm

ABOUT THIS PLAY

"After Jenny Schwartz’s God’s Ear has flowed from Available Light Theatre’s lips to the audience’s ears, after its words have done all that and more, the enthralled observer will finally lean back and wonder how it was done."

– Jay Weitz, Columbus Alive

In this beautiful and bizarre new play, a family is both torn apart and drawn together by the accidental death of a child. They are aided in their search for connection and solace by flights of fantasy involving a singing Tooth Fairy and a life-size G.I. Joe. In the space between what is said and what is unspeakable they find a heartrending collage of truth and cliché.

Playwright Jenny Schwartz is well-known for pushing the envelope with theatre that blends the commonplace and the surreal. God’s Ear is exactly that sort of challenging escape.

As the New York Times declared, “words gush forth in torrents, spewing up like geysers on a ghostly plain” in this “arrestingly odd … ode to love, loss and the routines of life.”