Beth Marshall Presents

OUR MISSION

Beth Marshall Presents is an independent production company based out of Orlando Florida, producing theatre, dance, music, multi-media performance art and all things creative in arts & entertainment with a special focus on original works and touring festival circuits. Established 2008.

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CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD

Children Of A Lesser God
By Mark Medoff
Directed by Beth Marshall and Brenna Nicely
When: March 15-31, 2013
Where: Garden Theatre (160 W. Plant St, Winter Garden)

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About the play:

Winner of the Tony Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award and the Drama Desk Award “After three years in the Peace Corps, James, a young speech therapist, joins the faculty of a school for the deaf, where he is to teach lip-reading. He meets Sarah, a school dropout, totally deaf from birth, and estranged both from the world of hearing and from those who would compromise to enter that world. Fluent in sign language, James tries, with little success, to help Sarah, but gradually the two fall in love and marry. At first their relationship is a happy and glowing one, as the gulf of silence between them seems to be bridged by their desire to understand each other’s needs and feelings, but discord soon develops as Sarah becomes militant for the rights of the deaf and rejects any hint that she is being patronized and pitied. In the end the chasm between the worlds of sound and silence seems almost too great to cross…but love and compassion hold the hope of reconciliation, and a deeper, fuller understanding of differences that, in the final essence, can unite as well as divide.

“CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD is an extraordinary play-illuminating, consistently interesting and moving.” -Variety.

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2013-14 SEASON ANNOUNCEMENT

Beth Marshall Presents is excited to announce our sixth season full of exclusively world, national or local premieres!

We are honored to be continuing our 6th year of partnership with The Garden Theatre as well as our 2^nd year of partnership with Penguin Point Productions and Lake Howell High School, while beginning our 1^st year of partnership with The Venue. Additionally, after our one-year touring hiatus we are glad to be back on the road again!

Tickets for all our non-touring shows go on sale in May 2013 at BethMarshallPresents.com. Our season subscribers of The Garden Theatre and BMP may purchase tickets early in April 2013. Our touring show ticket sales will be announced at a later date once the tour is finalized.

Our season auditions for all shows and roles (sans Commencement) will be held June 22^nd-24^th 2013 at The Garden Theatre by appointment only. Appointments can be scheduled beginning June 1^st 2013. More detailed specifics for auditions TBA at a later time.

2013 Annual Play-In-A-Day

• Season Kick-Off in Partnership with Lake Howell High School & Penguin Point Productions
• Sept. 7th @ Lake Howell High School
• Featuring the talents of a mix of Orlando’s most veteran theatre professionals working alongside emerging top high school talent to offer up 100% original plays all written, rehearsed and fully performed off book within a 24-hour time span! Partial proceeds from this event go to benefit a District 3 High School Theatre Scholarship. Silent Auction & Raffle.
• Tickets -$15

Alice Lost in Wonderland (World Premiere)

• Written & Directed by Rob Winn Anderson & Beth Marshall
• Oct. 18th-Nov. 3rd, 2013 @ The Garden Theatre
• Alice Lost in Wonderland marks our 9^th production in partnership with The Garden and our world premiere of this adaptation.

“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” said Alice.

“Oh you can’t help that,” said the cat. “We’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.”

“How do you know I’m mad?” asked Alice.

“You must be,” said the cat, “or you wouldn’t have come.”

~From Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll~

• Tickets $21-$25

Beatnik

• A Bohemian multi-media performance art evening of poetry, music, dance and theatre in collaboration with Blue’s VarieTEASE and Tod Caviness’ Poetry Vending Machine.
• When the holiday season meets the 60’s and the audience gets to see both the process and the product of art collide.
• Dec. 3rd, 2013 @ The Venue
• Tickets – Pay What You Wish

33 Variations (Central Florida Premiere)

• By Moisés Kaufman
• Directed by Aradhana Tiwari
• Mar. 13th-30th, 2014 @ The Garden Theatre
• Follow Beethoven’s journey of his final years as he ekes out Diabelli Variations and a present-day musicologist studying the piece while warding off Lou Gehrig’s disease. Drama, memory and music combine to transport in this extraordinary drama about passion, parenthood and the moments of beauty that can transform a life.
  • Tickets: $21-25

Touring Shows Premiering in Orlando:

Commencement

• By Clay McLeod Chapman
• Directed by Brenna Nicely
• Starring Beth Marshall
• May-June @ Orlando Fringe and/or The Venue
• In times when schools such as Sandy Hook and Columbine are household names, Commencement’s message rings so necessary. One actor plays the mother of the shooter, one of the victims and the mother of a victim in the grim aftermath of a high school shooting.

“A deep dish of reality, tragedy and pain… Commencement is an absolutely astounding piece, that delves deeper into a disaster then any media outlet could, or would for that matter. It shows that there are more than two sides to a story, how ‘victim’ is not a black-and-white term, how quick we are to blame and how fast we are to forget.”

- Uptown Magazine

• (A+) (Best of Fest)
• Tickets $11-$15

 

The Books

• By Michael Edison Haydon
• Directed by Beth Marshall
• May-June @ Orlando Fringe and/or The Venue
• An offbeat dramatic love story with plenty of dark comedy, THE BOOKS chronicles the developing relationship of a professional dominatrix, Mistress Chimera, and her agoraphobic client, Mark. After Mark loans her a copy of James Joyce’s Dubliners, their personal relationship deepens, complicating their sadomasochistic rituals. Before the couple can truly fall in love, they both must accept that some people may never fit into society.
• Tickets $11-$15

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TOURING SEASON

In addition to our fully staged theatrical productions, we will continue producing Paul Strickland’s original shows globally and will be spending the entire season working on 2 new original works for local and touring productions in future seasons. As always, we remain open to producing commissioned shows within our “OFF THE WALLS SERIES”.