A SPECIAL EVENT: THREE NOËL COWARD ONE-ACTS
TO BE PRESENTED MARCH 1ST AND 2ND ONLY!!

Curtain at 8:00 Saturday March 1st, 5:00 Sunday March 2nd.

SEATING IS LIMITED, SO RESERVATIONS ARE A MUST!
TICKETS: $50.00 SUGGESTED MINIMUM DONATION

TO RESERVE:
email: antaeusevents@sbcglobal.net
or call 818 623-9660
with Date of Performance, Number of Tickets,
Your Name, Your Contact Phone Number

COCKTAILS AND CANAPES!
FACSIMILE SCRIPT OF COWARD'S ORIGINAL
FOR "THE BETTER HALF" !

SHADOW PLAY
Victoria and Simon Gayforth have agreed to divorce – it’s the civilized and sensible thing to do.  But Victoria accidentally takes an overdose of sleeping pills and plunges into a feverish musical-comedy dream of their past happiness.  She begins to realize how it all began to go wrong, and how doing the “civilized and sensible” thing may actually be a big mistake. A unique one-act musical featuring the songs "THEN," "PLAY, ORCHESTRA, PLAY," and "YOU WERE THERE."

WAYS AND MEANS
Toby and Stella Cartwright are having a run of hard luck: they've worn out their welcome as guests at Olive Lloyd-Ransom’s lavish villa on the Riviera, and despite their fashionable appearance, the couple is flat broke and about to run out of options.  Then a golden opportunity presents itself which has only one drawback:  it’s against the law.  Will Toby and Stella rise to the challenge and do the right thing? 

AND THE NEWLY REDISCOVERED "LOST" COWARD ONE-ACT
THE BETTER HALF
Alice and Marion are best friends with a lot in common, including Alice's faultlessly noble husband, David. At first it seems that Alice is a wronged wife who must fight to save her marriage... but we soon learn that she has another plan in mind. A darkly hilarious and sophisticated take on the eternal triangle, a play lost since its first production in 1923 and only discovered again in 2007. Thanks to the Noel Coward Society, Antaeus will present the first American performance of this brilliant play.

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TONIGHT AT 8:30 -- PRODUCTIONS CLOSED DECEMBER 23, 2007

EVENING ONE : "If Love Were All" - Star Chamber, We Were Dancing, The Astonished Heart, Hands Across the Sea
EVENING TWO : "Come The Wild" - Red Peppers, Fumed Oak, Stil Life, Family Album

Directed by Brendon Fox, Robert Goldsby, WIlliam Ludel, Michael Murray, Stefan Novinsky, and Stephanie Shroyer;
Matthew Goldsby, Musical Dir.; Kay Cole, choreographer; Nancy Dussault, Singing Coach; Tracy WInters, Dialect Coach.

CO-ARTISTIC DIRECTORS: John Apicella and Jeanie Hackett

ENSEMBLE: Rhonda Aldrich, John Apicella, Gigi Bermingham, Brooke Bloom, Steven Brand,
Bill Brochtrup, Michael Burke, Anne Gee Byrd, Emily Chase, Josh Clark, JD Cullum,
Ramon DeOcampo, Nike Doukas, Emily Eiden, Angela Goethals, Faye Grant,
Jeanie Hackett, Shannon Holt, Micheal McShane, Adam Meyer, Lynn Milgrim, Angela Paton,
Nathan Patrick, Melinda Peterson, Christina Pickles, Robert Pine, Ray Porter, Kirsten Potter,
Lawrence Pressman, Philip Proctor, John Prosky, Ned Schmidtke, Armin Shimerman,
Devon Sorvari, Ryan Spahn, Susan Sullivan, Kitty Swink, Katy Tyszkiewicz, Laura Wernette,
A melia White, Bernard White, Mirron Willis, and Alicia Wollerton.

PRODUCER: Laura Hill

DESIGNERS: John Iacovelli - Scenic; Jose Lopez - Lights; A. Jeffrey Schoenberg - Costumes;
John Zalewski - Sound; Kis Knekt - Properties

PREMIERE PRODUCTION AT OUR INTERIM HOME - DEAF WEST THEATRE IN THE NOHO ARTS DISTRICT
5112 Lankershim Boulevard, NoHo, CA 91601 -- CLICK HERE FOR MAP

PARKING: Street Parking, metered on Lankershim and at side street intersections, unmetered on remainder of side streets.

EVENING ONE - "If Love Were All"
Preview - Oct. 20 - 26
Gala Opening Nights - Saturday, Oct. 27 and Sunday, Oct. 28
Performance Run - November 1, 2, 3, 4, 14, 15, 18, 23, 24, 25, 28, 29,
December 2, 7, 8, 9, 13, 16, 20, 22, 23

EVENING TWO - "Come The Wild"
Preview - Nov. 5 - 9
Gala Opening Nights, Saturday, Nov. 10 and Sunday, Nov. 11
Performance Run - November 16, 17, 18, 21, 24, 25, 30,
December 1, 2, 5, 6, 9, 14, 15, 16, 19, 21, 23

MARATHONS -- ALL EIGHT PLAYS performed in sequence on November 18, 24, 25, December 2, 9, 16, and 23

Preview performances at 8:00
Wednesday - Saturday performances at 8:00
Sunday Matinee performances at 3:00
Sunday Evening performances at 7:30

*NO PERFORMANCE Thursday, November 22, 2007

$10 PRESHOW COWARDY COCKTAIL PARTY - refreshment and music before show in the Antaeus Library
$30 Regular Tickets
$15 Preview Tickets

TO PURCHASE TICKETS - CLICK LOGO AT TOP OF PAGE OR CALL TOLLFREE: OR CALL 866-811-4111

American Sign Language-interpreted performance dates TBA

For more information, please call Antaeus at (818) 506-5436 or email antaeuscompany@sbcglobal.net

Generous support for this production is provided by the Center Theatre Group and Los Angeles County Arts Commission.