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MAIN STREET THEATRE CO. RETURNS Please note: The run of American Buffalo is now sold out. However, Main Street Theatre has just added 3 extra shows – Sunday (24th), Monday (25th) & Tuesday (26th). All proceeds from the Tuesday show will go towards relief in Haiti. Riding the wave of critical acclaim (and a sold out box office) from last year's Jessie Nominated production of Glengarry Glen Ross, the upstart theatre collective is back with another fresh revival of one of David Mamet's best plays. Ryan Beil, Josh Drebit and Daryl King star in American Buffalo, directed by Stephen Malloy, January 13-25, 2010, at Little Mountain Studios (195 E. 26th). In David Mamet's American Buffalo, a team of three men conspires to steal a wealthy man's coin collection. But their plans amount to nothing, and in reality are vulgar verbal exercises in futility. American Buffalo premiered in 1975 at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago. Audiences and critics were inspired by the force from such a fresh, aggressive voice in American theatre. When it premiered on Broadway, The New York Times called it "one of the best American plays in the last decade." Aiming for their trademark "extreme close up" staging, Main Street Theatre Co. will again push Little Mountain Studios, a non-traditional theatre venue, to its limits. Placing the audience directly inside the junk shop the characters call home, spectators will feel like flies on the wall of the dark, irreverent, often humorous, and sometimes obscene world in which the play is set. With three of the city's finest young actors, a highly respected director, and one of the best scripts of our time, American Buffalo promises to be a high point for the Vancouver theatre season.
AMERICAN BUFFALO Please note: The run of American Buffalo is now sold out. However, Main Street Theatre has just added 3 extra shows – Sunday (24th), Monday (25th) & Tuesday (26th). All proceeds from the Tuesday show will go towards relief in Haiti. TICKETS: 604-992-2313 Pay-what-you-can (suggested $12)
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