Cigarettes and Chocolate and Hang Up

Pacific Resident Theatre presents
The West Coast Premiere of:

Cigarettes and Chocolate and

Hang Up

2 Plays by Anthony Minghella

Directed by Michael Peretzian

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EXTENDED THRU OCT 15th
Producer Marilyn Fox and
Susan Lang
Assistant Director Julian Corbett

CAST
Michael Balsley, Marwa Bernstein, Ursula Brooks, Jason Downs, Jeanette Driver, Tania Getty, Jaxon Duff Gwillim, Matt Letscher,
Molly Schaffer, Katerina Tana

CREW
Stage Mangers Morgan Wilday, Laurel Barham
Lighting Design Andrei Borges
Sound Rebecca Kessin
Scenic Design Mallory Gabbard
Costume Consultant Audrey Eisner

Performance schedule:
Fri, Sat at 8pm
Sunday at 3pm

Tickets: $25-$30.
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In Cigarettes and Chocolate, this brilliant writer (The English Patient, Truly, Madly, Deeply), takes a humorous and human look at London life in the 1980’s that tests the social responsibilities of urbanites, who as Minghella said, quoting Oscar Wilde, “know the price of everything and the value of nothing.” Coupled with Hang Up, this is a stunning evening of two rarely performed works originally written to be performed on radio
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READ Gil Kaan’s interview from BETTER LEMONS entitled:  “DIRECTOR MICHAEL PERETZIAN ON ANTHONY MINGHELLA, CHANGING CAREERS & HELMING CIGARETTES & CHOCOLATE/HANG UP”

 

Congratulations on this beautiful review…for both plays!
“Terrific. Language used passionately and brilliantly…it’s the words that make these plays work and the actors have complete mastery over them. They rival anything you’ll find on bigger commercial stages” – Santa Monica Daily Press

Los Angeles Daily News:  “Michael Peretzian directs with enough subtext and reactions to start the audience’s imagination moving and filling in any blanks…Under Peretzian’s direction, the performances are evocative, clear, simple and moving. ”

StageSceneLA review – Cigs & Choc/Hang Up Placing the emphasis on a playwright’s words and a cast’s gifts at bringing them to life, the latest from Pacific Resident Theatre proves an unexpected—and entirely unique—dramatic treat”StageSceneLA

LA Times: Anthony Minghella’s prescient playwriting finds life on a Venice stage “Cigarettes and Chocolate”