October 30, 2013
Theater/New Works
Contact:
Susan Jackson, Co-Producer
415-505-2151
Diana Brown, Co-producer
415-359-7365
Stacy Marshall, Production Manager
stacymarshall99@aol.com
415-359-7690
Stacy Marshall, Production Manager
stacymarshall99@aol.com
415-359-7690
High resolution images available here:
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The
Southern Railroad Theatre Company
returns
this December with the world premiere of Susan Jackson’s
new
holiday play
THREE
MARYS AND AN OTTER: Rocket’s
Red Glare, the Holiday Story
Written by Susan Jackson**
Directed by Ann Thomas.
It's just six weeks till Christmas and the presentation of the
annual Beaver Dam living nativity. Usually the role of the Blessed
Virgin Mary goes to the Pastor's daughter but she's run off to
California.
Now the much coveted role is up for grabs and for
Peaches Nasterson, Amanda Haley Lynn Hollister, and Crazy Lacy---the
competition is fierce.
Join Peaches, Nandy, Lacy, Salacious Peterman, Billy
Barnett Wilmington the Third, and The Tulita, as they face the
challenges at hand. Choices must be made: who will be the Virgin Mary,
who will be the Baby Jesus, and will the fly metaphors be enough to secure
life-long friendships?
The play features Diana Brown as Nandy, Robert Cooper as Billy
Barnett Wilmington the third, Susan Jackson as Peaches, Adrienne Krug as Lacy,
Eric Nelson as Salacious and
Margo Sims as The Tulita.
Margo Sims as The Tulita.
Co-Producers, Diana Brown and Susan Jackson
Written by Susan Jackson
Directed by Ann Thomas
Production Manager, Stacy Marshall
Sound Design: Eric Nelson
For Calendar Editors:
What:
Southern Railroad Theatre Company
presents:
THREE MARYS ANDAN OTTER: Rocket’s Red Glare, the Holiday Story
By Susan Jackson
Directed by Ann Thomas
It's just six weeks till Christmas and
the presentation of the annual Beaver Dam living nativity. This year,
the much coveted role of Mary is up for grabs and the competition is
fierce. Choices must be made: who will be the Virgin Mary, who will be
the Baby Jesus, and will the fly metaphors be enough to secure life-long
friendships?
Featuring: Diana Brown, Robert Cooper,
Susan Jackson, Adrienne Krug, Eric Nelson and Margo Sims
WHERE:
ROYCE GALLERY
2901 Mariposa Street between Alabama & Harrison
Performances:
Thursdays, December 5 (preview) & 12
Fridays, December 6 (preview) & 13
Saturdays, December 7 (opening) & 14
All shows at 8 PM (doors open @ 7:30 PM)
Tickets:
General Admission: $22.00
Students and Seniors: $15.00
Brown Paper Tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/508333
Complimentary wine, coffee, water and snacks
provided by Royce Gallery
For tickets and information:
Brown Paper Tickets 24/7 hotline: 1-800-838-3006
For more information call: 415-505-2151 or
Write to us @ SouthernRailroadTheatreCompany@gmail.com
Or visit us online @ www.southernrailroadtheatrecompany.blogspot.com
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Contact:
Diana Brown, Co-producer
415-359-7365
Susan Jackson, Co-Producer
415-505-2151
High resolution images available here:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
2BEHOLDEN: Or Not to 2B!
FIVE NEW SHORT PLAYS
WRITTEN BY SUSAN JACKSON
sEPTEMBER 13-29 @ rOYCE gALLERY IN sAN fRANCISCO
Directed by Stephen Drewes*, Susan Jackson**, Ann Kuchins***and Ann Thomas
"Playwright Jackson zooms in on the perfect moment in a life to pinpoint and flesh out.”
-Tom W. Kelly, San Francisco Bay Times
Jackson's triptych of tenderly-written character studies offers audiences a rare kind of simply staged intimacy that is refreshingly honest and genuinely touching, deriving its dramatic power from its quietest moments of soul searching as well as the strength of her script.”
-George Haymont, My Cultural Landscape
“Fabulous acting, intimate setting, down home hospitality”
-SF Gate
*BATCC award--Director; **BATCC award—Playwright,*** B
ATCC Award for best costumer
The Southern saga continues In the world premiere production of 2BEHOLDEN: Or Not 2B! with the emancipation proclamation, ghosts, murder, bigamy, camouflage, and the wedding of the century. As always, everyone's related by blood or marriage.
The plays:
HEATHEN, part two
In 1865, General Sherman's destructive march on the South bypassed the Camaan plantation. The courageous slave girl Posey wants to know why she wasn't freed. Her master, Doctor John Camaan, has arranged for her to have this meeting with his wife, Bess.
Then, in 1929 a mature Posey relates the story to her grandson Malachi.
Featuring Ann Kuchins as Bess & Margo Sims as Posey
Directed by Susan Jackson
EYE TOOTH, part two
In part one, Jenny Safrit tracked down and murdered the waitress girlfriend of her ex-husband. Now, declared unfit to stand trail, she finds herself in a California State Mental Facility where she's haunted by the ghost of the woman whose life she took while forced to "share" in group.
Featuring Diana Brown as Jenny, Susan Jackson as Jesse
& Robert Cooper as Dr. Brevard
Directed by Ann Thomas
Directed by Ann Thomas
FOR I AM NOT BREAKING, part four
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| Susan Jackson as Marion and Eric Nelson as Williams Photo by Stacy Marshall |
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| Susan Jackson as Marion and Eric Nelson as Williams Photo by Stacy Marshall |
The setting-- the airport lounge at the Charlotte Douglas International Airport. Marion Peallin, soon to be ex-wife of bigamist Judge Peallin, meets a stranger while waiting for the flight for her first trip to New York City.
Featuring Susan Jackson as Marion and Eric Nelson as Williams
Directed by Stephen Drewes
ROCKETS RED GLARE: Lacy's story
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| Adrienne Krug as Lacy Photo by Susan Jackson |
Lacy's survival journey from an abandoned three year old to a few days before the wedding of the century.
Featuring Adrienne Krug as Lacy
Directed by Ann Thomas
ROCKETS RED GLARE: The Wedding
Talk around the Sonic Drive-In is all about the
"Wedding of the Century".
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| Eric Nelson as Salacious P. and Robert Cooper as Billy Barnett Wilmington, III (BBW3) Photo by Susan Jackson |
The folks in the town Beaver Dam in Severinsville County, North Carolina, never thought they'd see the day that Salacious and Nandy would stop fighting long enough to actually get married, yet it seems that day has finally arrived.
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| Eric Nelson as Salacious P. and Diana Brown as Amanda Haley Lynn Hollister Photo by Susan Jackson |
Featuring Diana Brown as Nandy, Bob Cooper as Billy Barnett Willmington the Third, Susan Jackson as Peaches, Adrienne Krug as Lacy, Ann Kuchins as Reverend Rainbow, Eric Nelson as Salacious, Margo Sims as “The” Tulita
Directed by Ann Kuchins
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| Adrienne Krug as Lacy and Robert Cooper as Billy Barnett Wilmington, III (BBW3) Photo by Susan Jackson |
For Calendar Editors:
WHO: Southern Railroad Theatre Company
WHAT: 2BEHOLDEN:Or Not 2B! Five new short plays by Susan Jackson
Directed by Stephen Drewes, Susan Jackson, Ann Kuchins, and Ann Thomas
The Southern saga continues In the world premiere production of 2BEHOLDEN: Or Not 2B! with the emancipation proclamation, ghosts, murder, bigamy, camouflage, and the wedding of the century. As always, everyone's related by blood or marriage.
Featuring:
Diana Brown, Robert Cooper, Susan Jackson, Adrienne Krug, Ann Kuchins, Eric Nelson and Margo Sims
WHEN: Previews, September 13 & 14
OPENING NIGHT, September 15
PERFORMANCES:
Thursday, September 13, 20 & 27
Friday, September 14, 21 & 28
Saturday, September 15, 22 & 29
All shows at 8 PM (doors open @ 7:30 PM)
WHERE: Royce Gallery,
OPENING NIGHT, September 15
PERFORMANCES:
Thursday, September 13, 20 & 27
Friday, September 14, 21 & 28
Saturday, September 15, 22 & 29
All shows at 8 PM (doors open @ 7:30 PM)
WHERE: Royce Gallery,
2901 Mariposa Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
Complimentary wine, coffee, water and snacks provided by Royce Gallery
TICKETS:
General Admission: $22.00
Students and Seniors: $15.00
Brown Paper Tickets:
http://www.brownpapertickets.
com/event/252834
General Admission: $22.00
Students and Seniors: $15.00
Brown Paper Tickets:
http://www.brownpapertickets.
(Brown Paper Tickets 24/7 hotline: 1-800-838-3006)
For more information call: 415-505-2151 or write: SouthernRailroadThe
atreCompany@gmail.comOr visit us online:
www.southernrailroadtheatrecompany.blogspot.com
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| Pictured (l to r): Diana Brown as Rhonda, Susan Jackson as Beth, Adrienne Krug as Sylvie in ADOPT A HIGHWAY from 4 MERCY: Friendly Fires Photo by Eric Nelson |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, July 27, 2011
Theatre/New Works
Contact: Susan Jackson, Artistic Director
415-505-2151
Contact: Diana Brown, Co-producer
415-359-7365
For questions re: photos and digital images please contact:
Stacy Marshall, Marshall Photography
415-359-7690
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The Southern Railroad Theatre Company
Presents
4 MERCY: Friendly Fires
Four new short plays written by Susan Jackson**
Directed by Stephen Drewes*, Susan Jackson and Ann Thomas
"Playwright Jackson zooms in on the perfect moment in a life to pinpoint and flesh out.”
-Tom W. Kelly, San Francisco Bay Times
“Fabulous acting, intimate setting, down home hospitality!”
-SF Gate.com
*BATCC award--Director; **BATCC award-- Playwright
After their sold-out run of 4GIVENESS: In a Family Way, the Southern Railroad Theatre Company returns to the Royce Gallery this September to present award winning playwright, Susan Jackson's latest additions to her Southern Universe, four new short plays united under the theme of Mercy.
4 MERCY: Friendly Fires presents a new installment to our good ol' Southern soap opera, where everyone is related by blood or marriage, where dogs rule, where road trips and backyards reveal more than just weeds----and where mercy can be found.
ROCKETS RED GLARE 2.5 :
Crazy Lacy, Nandy, Peaches, and Salacious come together in a “cometojesusmercymeeting” to determine just who ends up with whom.
ROCKETS RED GLARE 2.75
Salacious's soft side contrasts with his ambition as he prepares to pick up his bigamist Daddy.
Directed by Diana Brown ROCKETS RED GLARE 3.0
Nandy and Salacious, FORMER LOVERS, face-off with which opponent (Peaches or Salacious) deserves to be mayor of Beaver Dam.
Directed by Susan Jackson
ADOPT A HIGHWAY:
Three friends traveling three hours learn more than just three secrets; some are better left unspoken, especially when facing the law.
Directed by Ann Thomas
IN SITU:
Presents a different perspective on terminal illness, seen through the eyes of two friends; what price, friendship?
Directed by Ann Thomas
FOR I AM NOT BREAKING, part 3 (Mercy/Merci):
Socialite Marion Peallin, against her lawyer's advice, writes a letter to her soon-to-be-ex, bigamist husband; will he let her keep the one thing she wants?
Directed by Stephen Drewes
Critical Praise for the Southern Railroad Theatre Company:
Jackson's triptych of tenderly-written character studies offers audiences a rare kind of simply staged intimacy that is refreshingly honest and genuinely touching, deriving its dramatic power from its quietest moments of soul searching as well as the strength of her script.”
-George Haymont, My Cultural Landscape
"Susan Jackson proved herself to be a wonderful comedic actress."
"Adrienne Krug stars as Crazy Lacy in a Lily Tomlin-like performance."
"They (Brown and Nelson) have wonderful chemistry in this delightfully comic scene."
"The plays all add up to a wonderful evening's entertainment."
-Floralynn Isaacson, For All Events
For Calendar Editors:
WHAT:
4 MERCY: Friendly Fires
Four new short plays written by Susan Jackson
Jackson continues her good ol' Southern soap opera, where everyone is related by blood or marriage, where dogs rule, where road trips and backyards reveal more than just weeds----and where mercy can be found.
Featuring: Diana Brown, Susan Jackson, Adrienne Krug and Eric Nelson
Directed by Stephen Drewes, Susan Jackson and Ann Thomas
WHO:
Presented by the Southern Railroad Theatre Company
“Bringing the Southern experience to the Bay Area one hush puppy at a time.”
WHERE:
ROYCE GALLERY
2901 Mariposa Street @ Harrison
WHEN: (6 Performances Only)
Thursday, September 8 & 15
Friday, September 9 & 16
Saturday, September 10 & 17
All shows at 8 PM (doors open @ 7:30 PM)
Complimentary wine, coffee, water and snacks provided by Royce Gallery
For tickets and information:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/189417
Brown Paper Tickets 24/7 hotline: 1-800-838-3006
For more information call: 415-505-2151 or
Write to us @ SouthernRailroadTheatreCompany@gmail.com
Or visit us online @ www.southernrailroadtheatrecompany.blogspot.com
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Pictured: (left to right) Diana Brown as Nandy, "Rocky", Susan Jackson as Peaches Nasterson
Photo by Stacy Marshall
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, April 1, 2011
Theatre/New Works
Contact: Susan Jackson, Artistic Director
415-505-2151
Contact: Diana Brown, Co-producer
415-359-7365
For questions re: photos and digital images please contact:
Stacy Marshall, Marshall Photography
415-359-7690
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
4GIVENESS: In a Family Way
Four new short plays written by Susan Jackson**
Directed by Stephen Drewes*, Susan Jackson and Ann Thomas
Presented by the Southern Railroad Theatre Company
"Playwright Jackson zooms in on the perfect moment in a life to pinpoint and flesh out.”
-Tom W. Kelly, San Francisco Bay Times
The Southern Railroad Theatre Company returns to the Royce Gallery this June to present award winning playwright, Susan Jackson's latest additions to her Southern Universe. Four new short plays united under the theme of forgiveness.
*BATCC award--Director; **BATCC award-- Playwright
4GIVENESS: In a Family Way-- is a Good ol' Southern soap opera, where everyone is related by blood or marriage, where dogs rule, where the Sonic Drive-In is the place to be----
and where forgiveness can be found.
ROCKETS RED GLARE (Parts One and Two):
Southern gothic meets healthy cuisine as Nandy (Diana Brown), Peaches (Susan Jackson), Crazy Lacy (Adrienne Krug) and Salacious P. (Eric Nelson) negotiate the course of love at the Sonic Drive-In, with red trucks, tofu, and How to Become a Lord and Lady over the internet.
Part one directed by Stephen Drewes, Part two directed by Susan Jackson
HEATHEN:
1864, General Sherman is burning down the South, and Posey (Margo Sims)--the slave of Dr. John Camaan (Eric Nelson)-- offers to fight off "the devil hisself" to help her master. What she doesn't know is that things have changed in the South, and nobody bothered to tell her. Jump to 1929: Posey confesses the truth, just as Wall Street crumbles.
Directed by Susan Jackson
FOR I AM NOT BREAKING (Part One):
Two Southern matrons (Susan Jackson and Adrienne Krug), with opposing political views, share their weekly coffee; they discover one of them has been withholding information that just might end their lifelong friendship.
Directed by Ann Thomas
FOR I AM NOT BREAKING (Part Two):
Marion Peallin (Susan Jackson) receives a phone call where she can finally speak her mind and her heart to her adulterous husband. (Mrs. Peallin was considered “too controversial” in the 2009 SF FRINGE.)
Directed by Stephen Drewes
EYE TOOTH:
(Diana Brown, Adrienne Krug, Susan Jackson) Revenge might be behind Jenny's serendipitous visit to a Diner; but who will be the victim of her anger; the waitress, the vegan, or the ex?
Directed by Ann Thomas
WHAT:
4GIVENESS: In a Family Way
Four new short plays written by Susan Jackson
A good ol' Southern soap opera, where everyone is related by blood or marriage, where dogs rule, the Sonic Drive-In is the place to be----and where forgiveness can be found.
Featuring: Diana Brown, Susan Jackson, Adrienne Krug, Eric Nelson and Margo Sims.
Directed by Stephen Drewes, Susan Jackson and Ann Thomas
WHO:
Presented by the Southern Railroad Theatre Company
“Bringing the Southern experience to the Bay Area one hush puppy at a time.”
WHERE:
ROYCE GALLERY
2901 Mariposa Street @ Harrison
WHEN: (6 Performances Only)
Thursday, June 16 & 23 @ 8 PM
Friday, June 17 & 24 @ 8 PM
Saturday, June 18 & 25 @ 8 PM
(Doors open at 7:30)
Friday, June 17 & 24 @ 8 PM
Saturday, June 18 & 25 @ 8 PM
(Doors open at 7:30)
Complimentary wine, coffee, water and snacks provided by Royce Gallery
For tickets and information:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/173345
Brown Paper Tickets 24/7 hotline: 1-800-838-3006
For more information call: 415-505-2151 or SouthernRailroadTheatreCompany@gmail.com
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