Renee Alper

Falcon is excited to announce our 2015-2016 season of plays!  We think its a fantastic slate and we’re excited to share it with our audiences.  So without further ado, capsule here is the list:

SILENCE! The Musical
Music and Lyrics by Jon Kaplan and Al Kaplan
Book by Hunter Bell
September 25-October 10, salve 2015
This musical parody of The Silence Of The Lambs was a huge hit when it debuted at the New York Fringe Festival and it went on to several successful New York runs.  Now Falcon Theatre brings this outrageous spoof to our area in its regional premiere.  SILENCE! The Musical is hysterical in it’s quest to be completely politically incorrect as it parodies all the characters you loved in the original movie.

The Mystery Plays
by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
November 6-21, ampoule 2015
The Mystery Plays is two interrelated one acts. In the first play, The Filmmaker’s Mystery, Joe Manning, a director of horror films, survives a terrible train wreck—only to be haunted by the ghost of Nathan West, one of the passengers who didn’t survive. As the police investigate Joe, he investigates Nathan, desperate to understand why he survived and what Nathan’s specter could possible want. In the second play, Ghost Children, Abby Gilly travels to a small town in rural Oregon to make peace with the man who brutally murdered her parents and younger sister sixteen years earlier. The man—the murderer—is her older brother. Like the original medieval mystery plays, The Mystery Plays wrestles with the most profound of human ideas: the mysteries of death, the afterlife, religion, faith, and forgiveness—in a uniquely American way.

Prelude To A Kiss
by Craig Lucas
January 29-February 13, 2016
At Peter and Rita’s wedding, a mysterious old man insists on kissing the bride. While honeymooning, Peter gradually realizes that the woman by his side is not his wife. The wedding kiss caused Rita’s soul and the old man’s to change places. Peter must track down the old man and free his young love’s spirit trapped in an aging and diseased body before it’s too late.

The Beauty Queen of Leenane
by Martin McDonagh
March 18-April 2, 2016
Set in the mountains of Connemara, County Galway, The Beauty Queen Of Leenane tells the darkly comic tale of Maureen Folan, a plain and lonely woman in her early forties, and Mag, her manipulative aging mother, whose interference in Maureen’s first and possibly final chance of a loving relationship sets in motion a train of events that leads inexorably towards the play’s terrifying dénouement.

Next Fall
by Geoffrey Nauffts
May 6-21, 2016
Next Fall takes a witty and provocative look at faith, commitment and unconditional love. While the play’s central story focuses on the five-year relationship between Adam and Luke, Next Fall goes beyond a typical love story. This timely and compelling new American play forces us all to examine what it means to “believe” and what it might cost us not to.

Show dates are still to be announced but they will be coming soon.  Stay tuned for more exciting news!

Renee Alper, buy long time patron of Falcon Theatre, pharm
passed away on July 27, 2015.  Renee was one of the most ardent supporters of theater in the Greater Cincinnati area, literally seeing hundreds of productions over the last several years.  Although her health made it a challenge for her to travel, she still visited practically every theater in the area and was unwavering in her support of this art she loved so much.  She was a playwright and actress herself and was a stalwart patron of the arts.  She loved nothing more than seeing shows and discussing predictions with actors and artists…offering insights into everything she saw.  Renee will be greatly missed for her unparalleled support and passion.