Stray Kats To Offer Their Take On Seasonal Bellwood Play

The Stray Kats Theatre Company, a not-for-profit theatre company that offers staged readings in Edmond Town Hall’s Alexandria Room, will offer as its next reading Steve Bellwood’s play, By the Heirs of St Patrick, an irreverently funny new work in the tradition of Waiting For Guffman about the annual St Patrick’s day revue offered by an amateur performance troupe in an Ireland pub.

Tickets are $25 when purchased in advance, and $30 at the door. Showtime is 7 pm.

While the readings are traditionally followed by Q&A with the actors and Artistic Director Kate Katcher, the March event will also include hors d’oeuvres from Sweet Mustard Shop of Stratford and Guinness courtesy of Cork & Barrel of Newtown.

For further information, contact Kate Katcher at 203-514-2221 or info@straykatstheatrecompany.org, or visit straykatstheatrecompany.org.

“This play explores the happenings around the serious offerings of the troupe which turn out to be hilarious misrepresentations of classic Irish plays” states playwright Steve Bellwood. “I like to describe it as an ‘Irish Commedical Eclectic Profundis with the Ballygas All Blarney and Blatherin’ Dramatics, Poetics and Phonetics Club.’ This community theater group offers condensed versions of plays in a bar after the annual parade. But it is the inhabitants of the bar that provide much of the fun with philandering husbands, two sets of twins, and their utter mishandling of titles like Playboy of the Western World and Long Days Journey Into Night.”

“We’re thrilled to bring this new work to Stray Kats Theatre Company to help celebrate one of the year’s favorite holidays,” said Kate Katcher. “Steve Bellwood’s innate writing talent is sure to capture our audience’s hearts and give them quite a few laughs in the process.”

The cast features Norman Allen whose Broadway credits include the English Stage Company’s Chips With Everything, Half A Sixpence, Borstal Boy, and Comedians, among others; Damien Langan, was most recently seen as Richard Harkin in The Seafarer in Westport, as well as performances at Long Wharf, Shakespeare on the Sound, Playhouse on the Green, The Rich Forum, et al; Barbara Ellen Stuart, who studied with The Groundlings and Larry Moss in Los Angeles and whose regional credits include Two Gentlemen of Verona; Nadine Willig, who has appeared Off Broadway, in film (including Fred Stroppel’s Signs of Life with Keir Dullea) and in JIB Production’s Play With Your Food readings throughout Connecticut and New York; and actor, director, writer, producer, teacher and administrator Tom Zingarelli, who has worked with the award-winning likes of Jason Robards, Teresa Wright, Mason Adams, Donal Donnelly, and others.

The cast will also include Joanna Keylock and Joe Rinaldi. All actors appear courtesy of Actors Equity Association.