PlayMakers Repertory Company, the professional theater company in residence at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has announced the third play for its second-stage series of the 2010-2011 season.
PlayMakers Repertory Company, the professional theater company in residence at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has announced the third play for its second-stage series of the 2010-2011 season.
Actor-playwright Lisa Ramirez will bring her autobiographical show “Exit Cuckoo (nanny in motherland)” to UNC’s Center for Dramatic Art Jan. 12-16.
The play will complete the season’s thought-provoking PRC2 second-stage series, in which each performance is followed by an artist-audience discussion. The other two plays in the series will be “Happy Days” by Samuel Beckett and Joan Didion’s “The Year of Magical Thinking.”
PlayMakers’ main-stage series opens Sept. 22 with Shakespeare’s “As You Like It.” Various subscription packages are on sale for both series. For information, visit the PlayMakers box office in the center, on Country Club Road, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays, call (919) 962-PLAY (7529) or visit www.playmakersrep.org.
Ramirez lived the real nanny diaries when a temporary job became a career. Then the performer in her prevailed, turning personal experience plus eye-opening stories from the globalized culture of childcare into a solo show injected with humor and heartbreak. She interweaves her story with portrayals of characters including mothers, children, the head of a nanny agency and caretakers from Ireland, Trinidad and Central America.
Obie Award-winner Colman Domingo will direct. The actor-director-playwright recently starred on Broadway in the Tony Award-winning musical “Passing Strange.”
“Exit Cuckoo” will be performed at 7:30 p.m. nightly and 2 p.m. on Jan. 16.
Web site: www.playmakersrep.org
2010-2011 season news release: http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/3357/107/
PlayMakers contact: Connie Mahan, (919) 428-1744, cmahan@email.unc.edu
College of Arts and Sciences contact: Kim Spurr, (919) 962-4093, spurrk@email.unc.edu