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Onstage at Theatre Three: Amy's View

Theatre Three’s 2009-2010 "Pursuit of Happiness" Season continues with the dramatic comedy, Amy's View by David Hare. Everyone has a different idea of happiness and how to get it: living a full life onstage, winning a spelling bee, merging two very different lives for romantic success, surviving all of life's changes with grace, creating something entertaining at the very last minute, treasuring America's musical heritage, learning how to dance again, celebrating the holidays with wild abandon, paying tribute to a legendary talent, finding that one true love, and conquering personal demons. Amy's View begins previews on Thursday, December 31, 2009 and will close on Sunday, January 31, 2010. Esme Allen is a talented, esteemed actress with a full and busy life in the London theater world. Her greatest concern is not her career, but her daughter, Amy. Amy's new boyfriend, Dominic, is intriguing, sexy, opinionated, ambitious, and his budding arrogance about artists disturbs Esme. Spanning from 1979 to 1995, Amy's View explores the complicated relationship between a mother and daughter as they each try to define their own life's "view". About The Playwright: David Hare Playwright Sir David Hare was born in Bexhill, East Sussex, England on 5 June 1947, and was educated at Lancing College and Jesus College, Cambridge. He co-founded Portable Theatre Company, acting, directing and writing plays. Slag was first produced in London in 1970 at the Hampstead Theatre Club. He was Resident Dramatist at the Royal Court Theatre in London in 1970-1 and Resident Dramatist at the Nottingham Playhouse in 1973. He co-founded Joint Stock Theatre Group with David Aukin and Max Stafford-Clark in 1975, and held a US/UK Bicentennial Fellowship in 1977. He has been Associate Director of the National Theatre since 1984. He was knighted in 1998 and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His plays include Knuckle (1974), winner of the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize; Fanshen (1975), based on the book by William Hinton; Plenty (1978), a portrait of disillusionment in post-war Britain, first staged at the National Theatre in London; Pravda: A Fleet Street Comedy (1985), an attack on the English press written with Howard Brenton; The Secret Rapture (1988); the trilogy Racing Demon (1990), Murmuring Judges (1991) and The Absence of War (1993), about three British institutions: the Anglican church, the legal system and the Labour party; Skylight (1995); Amy's View (1997); and The Judas Kiss (1998). He has also adapted Chekhov's Platonov and Ivanov, Schnitzler's La Ronde (The Blue Room) and Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children for the theatre. In 1998 (and again in 2002) he performed his own play, Via Dolorosa, a monologue about a visit he made to Israel and the Palestinian Territories for the Royal Court Theatre. His experiences of acting and writing the play are further explored in a diary, Acting Up: A Diary, published in 1999. More recent plays by David Hare include My Zinc Bed, first staged at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in September 2000, and The Breath of Life (2002). The Permanent Way (2003), the story of a political dream turned sour, explores the privatisation of British Rail, and opened at the Royal National Theatre in January 2004. His play Stuff Happens (2005), was premiered at the same theatre in 2005, and is about the invasion of Iraq. His film work includes the screenplay for the screen adaptation of Plenty in 1985, and he wrote and directed the films Wetherby (1985), Paris by Night (1988) and Strapless (1989). His book, Obedience, Struggle and Revolt (2005), is a collection of lectures about politics and art. Sir David Hare lives in London. His papers were acquired by the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at The University of Texas at Austin in 1993. His most recent works are the plays, The Vertical Hour (2006) and Gethsemane (2008), and the screenplay for the film of The Corrections, based on the novel by Jonathan Franzen. About Theatre Three: Theatre Three was founded in 1961 by Norma Young, Jac Alder, Esther Ragland, and Robert Dracup with a clear mission: Theatre Three seeks to illuminate the human experience with exemplary, intimate theatrical productions while nurturing authors, regional artists and audiences. About Theatre Three's production of Amy's View: Jac Alder will direct this production. The cast includes Connie Coit as Esme Friedman, Sonny Franks as Frank Oddie, Jason Kennedy as Toby Cole, Terry McCracken as Evelyn Thomas, Kevin Moore as Dominic Tyghe, and Danielle Pickard as Amy Thomas. Set design by Jac Alder. Lighting design by Josh Blann. Costume Design by Bruce R. Coleman. Sound design by Richard Frohlich. A Note about Production Photos: Photos from Amy's View can be found online on Tuesday, December 15 in Theatre Three’s Press Room at http://www.theatre3dallas.com. The Official Opening: Official Opening Night is Monday, January 4, 2009 at 7:30 p.m. All press please R.S.V.P to Kimberly Richard at 214-871-3300, option #2 or kimberly@theatre3dallas.com. Performance Times: Preview Performances: Thursday, December 31 at 7:30 p.m., Friday, January 1 at 8:00 p.m., Saturday, January 2 at 8:00 p.m., and Sunday, January 3 at 2:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. Regular Performances: Thursdays & Sundays at 7:30 p.m., Fridays & Saturdays at 8:00 p.m., Saturday & Sunday matinees at 2:30 p.m. (The final performance of Amy's View will be Sunday, January 31 at 2:30 p.m. There will be no Sunday evening performance that day.) Additional special performances: Miser's Night Out: Sunday, January 24, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. All tickets $10 The Hooky Matinee: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 at 2:00 p.m. All tickets $10 Ticket Prices: Previews: $15 -- $40 (December 31, 2009 – January 4, 2010) Regular Run: $10 -- $40 (January 7- 31, 2010) Tickets may be purchased by calling Theatre Three's box office at 214-871-3300, option #1. Tickets may be requested online at www.theatre3dallas.com

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