Theater director Joe Tyler has one simple ambition for the Tred Avon Players starting August 11. His job is to make the musical, A Man of No Importance, very important to its actors and audience for the ten performances its scheduled to play at the Oxford Community Center this month.
Tyler, a veteran actor and director with TAP for decades, suggests in his Spy interview that this task of making this tale of a lonely bus conductor in 1964 Dublin is not very difficult for him. He fell in love with both the plot and the music of this story of Alfie Byrne and his secrets he can only share with his imagined confidante, Oscar Wilde as he confronts the forces of bigotry and shame over a love that, “dare not speak its name.”
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The play debuts Aug. 11 at 7 p.m. with “Thrifty Thursday,” featuring two-for-one tickets. Other performances are Fridays and Saturdays, Aug. 12, 13, 19, 20, 26 and 27 at 8 p.m., and Sunday matinees Aug. 14, 21 and 28 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $20 for adults, $5 for students with ID. For tickets, visit www.tredavonplayers.org or call 410-226-0061.
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