Church Hill Theatre proudly announces the premier staging of Washington DC playwright Paula Stones’s new play Kitchen Sink, for a very limited engagement: Friday, January 13th through Sunday, January 15th. This award-winning two-act play is directed and produced by Kate Reckner and features Dianne Hood in the role of Francine, a lady with a colorful assortment of kitchen wares to dispense. This production represents a tour de force of Maryland theatrical talent.
After a lifetime of cooking, baking, and washing dishes, Francine has had enough. Join her at her yard sale where she is selling the contents of her kitchen. She simply has no use anymore for all these pots and pans, yet each pot and pan has some special quirky, comic, or poignant story. Together, these memories trace the course of Francine’s life: the tensions, misadventures, vulnerabilities, and joys that have shaped her as a wife, mother, friend, and woman.
Dianne Hood appeared most recently at the Strand Theatre in Baltimore in the solo play The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion. She has appeared in a wide variety of productions with the Annapolis Summer Garden Theatre, Annapolis Theatre Project, Baltimore Playwrights Festival, Bay Theatre Company, Colonial Players, just to name a few. Dianne is an active freelance actor and voice over artist, and no stranger to CHT. She directed CHT’s production of Everybody Loves Opal in 1996.
Playwright Paula Stone has returned to her love of creative writing upon retiring from her career in technology policy and systems engineering. She writes poignant comedies about everyday life, more than a dozen of which have been competitively selected for play festivals, showcased in public readings, commercially published, and broadcast on radio theatre. Her one-act version of Kitchen Sink was chosen for a public reading in the 2008-2009 Baltimore Playwright’s Festival, won first-prize (one-act category) in the Brevard Little Theatre’s 6th Annual New Play Competition, was a finalist in the 33rd Annual National One-Act Playwriting Competition sponsored by the Dubuque Fine Arts Players, and was a semifinalist in the 2011 Silver Spring Stage One-Act Festival.
Kate Reckner is an award-winning producer for both documentary television and feature films. Among her notable credits are Cecil B DeMented, Pecker, and Serial Mom for John Waters, 12 Monkeys for Terry Gilliam, Oz (pilot) for HBO, and America’s Promise for Colin Powell. Kate has more recently been focusing on the advertising industry where her clients include Toyota, Comcast, Time/Warner, MD State Fair, and Zachary’s Jewelers. She started her career as a stage manager for theatre and live events. Of Kitchen Sink, Kate notes that she purposely picked this play to produce and direct as it reminds her of her own grandmother, her time spent in the kitchen, and how she used cooking to show her affection for her family.
Make reservations today for this limited engagement which opens on Friday, January 13th and closes on Sunday, January 15th. Performances will be held on Friday at 8pm and Saturday and Sunday at 3pm. There will be a Question and Answer session with the playwright, director, and actress directly following the Saturday performance.
Tickets for the show are $12.50 and are available online at www.churchhilltheatre.org or by calling the CHT office at 410.758.1331. Reservations are strongly recommended, as are kitchen gloves.
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