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[exit Mrs Behn] or, The Leo Play

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

8:00 pm

Dog Story Theater

7 Jefferson
Grand Rapids MI

February 24-25, Tuesday & Wednesday, 8pm
Grand Rapids playwright Christopher vanDer Ark will present a new play in the Zodiac Sequence.

Aphra Behn: England's first professional, female writer. Part-time playwright, part-time courtier, and part-time spy-- Behn's was a life of many identities. [Exit Mrs Behn] details Behn's sudden fall from the stage. Speculating what the the opening night of her infamous play Like Father, Like Son, which not only infuriated the King, but also got her arrested for libel-- [Exit Mrs Behn] imagines what that night may have looked like. 

Sometimes farce, sometimes docudrama-- [Exit Mrs Behn] brings to life the woman "that wore so many masks, yet was impossible to unmask."

Featuring Mackenzie McElroy, Madeline Jones, Lizzy Sulkowski, Kendra Jones, Walt Reigler, Sean Kelley, Janna Rosenkranz, and starring Claire Mahave, as the Leo.

Presented as a part of the Lake Effect Fringe Festival - Changing the Forecast for Live Theatre 
Tickets are $14/adults and $8/students & senior

Event Type: Arts-Entertainment 



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