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The Importance of Being Earnest opens its run at The Lancaster Playhouse and tickets are available now.
Performances are Friday April 28 at 7pm and April 29 at 2pm & 7pm.
The Box Office
is open Monday thru Saturday from 10am to 5pm. Call 740-974-6648 for information and tickets.
There will be some reserved seating available at each performance as well as general admission and student tickets. The last TLP production sold out so don't wait too long to order your tickets.
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Director Fulfills a Vision
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Loran Peterson is proud to be a founding member of The Lancaster Playhouse (2015). TLP also staged its first successful production in the fall of that year. Peterson directed the initial TLP offering of Arsenic and Old Lace to sellout audiences and later lent directorial vision to Neil Simon’s The Sunshine Boys.
50 years of theatre involvement include many years directing stage plays and musicals at Lancaster High School. His credits there include the iconic musicals Carousel, Li’l Abner, Guys and Dolls, Oklahoma! and The Music Man. Other stage plays he directed while at LHS include The Robe, George Washington Slept Here, MASH, and many one-act plays.
Peterson can also be found on stage. Acting with the Garrett Players he enjoyed his roles as Oscar in The Odd Couple and Scanlon in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. He also directed On Golden Pond for the Garrett Players.
At Ohio University-Lancaster Peterson enjoyed a variety of roles under the direction of Jeff Wagner. Most recently he was cast as Officer Krupke in West Side Story, with Victor Jones at the directing helm.
Being director of The Importance of Being Earnest for TLP is a dream fulfilled for Peterson, not only due to the play's fascinating history, but also for his decision to stage it “in the round.” To fulfill that challenge, he gives much appreciation to this cast and to his assistant director, John Pekar. Pekar has exhibited patience and exemplary skills.
“Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.”
Oscar Wilde
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Pekar New to The Lancaster Playhouse
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John Pekar (Assistant Director) is participating in his first production at The Lancaster Playhouse. It is also his first venture “on the other side of the camera,” a distinct difference from being on the acting side. As such, he would like to extend his sincere apologies to all directors he has performed for in the past.
He has appeared in five productions for the Garret Players, including The Dinner Party, Becky’s New Car, Night of January 16th, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, and Twelve Angry Men. Pekar is a proud member of the Destination Downtown Lancaster Mystery Dinner Theatre Players, having performed in all but one of those productions, though he wonders why he is the murder victim more often than not in those productions. Also, as his acting alter ego, Benjamin Norka, he appeared many years ago in The Jungle, a production of Mad Lab Theatre in Columbus.
He is most proud to serve in the role of Superintendent of the Fairfield County Board of Developmental Disabilities. He would like to thank The Lancaster Playhouse and Loran Peterson for giving him the opportunity to assistant direct The Importance of Being Earnest.
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He Designs the Posters...and acts too
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Jim Cummins is retired from a forty-five-year career in banking and as an FDIC bank examiner. He is married to Ruthann, has three children and four grandchildren. He has been a member of The Lancaster Playhouse’s Board of Directors since November 2015. Jim was born in Columbus and raised in Canton, Ohio. After high school, he attended Bowling Green State University and graduated from the University of Akron with a degree in Finance.
As soon as he learned of the formation of The Lancaster Playhouse, he wanted to be involved.
He appeared as “Teddy” in the playhouse’s very first production, Arsenic and Old Lace. Soon after he was asked to join the TLP Board. Besides acting, he is enthusiastic and dedicated to all aspects of the playhouse, which include set construction, props, costumes, advertising and design of the playhouse’s playbills, posters, flyers, handouts, etc. He was most recently elected Chairman of the Board of Directors.
He thanks his wife and the rest of his family, for allowing him this indulgence and pledges that his involvement will always be for the benefit of the playhouse.
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The Importance of Being Earnest is trivial comedy for serious people. The plot revolves around two men who have taken to bending the truth in order to put some excitement into their lives. The two bachelors, John ‘Jack’ Worthing and Algernon ‘Algy’ Moncrieff, create alter egos named Ernest to escape their tiresome lives. They attempt to win the hearts of two women who, conveniently, claim to only love men called Ernest.
The pair struggle to keep up with their own stories and become tangled in a tale of deception, disguise and misadventure. The elaborate plot ridicules Victorian sensibilities with some of the best loved, and indeed bizarre, characters to be found on the modern stage.
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