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Strange Snow
East 3rd Productions Presents Stephen Metcalfe’s 1982 Play
Kathleen Wallace in Strange Snow
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Staged in an unoccupied restaurant front, an empty house sits amongst a light dusting of an April snow. Amongst this bizarre scene Ricardo Riethmuller and East 3rd Productions present their interpretation of the postwar drama, Strange Snow, this summer beginning May 12th through June 11th.
Through three intertwined characters, Strange Snow tells a story of hope and desire to gain a deeper understanding of the past to be able to move on. Starring Michael Mallard, Kathleen Wallace, and Francisco Solorzano, the play takes place in early spring 1983 where a brother struggles to let go of precedent ambitions while a sister discovers an opportunity at a second chance at love and a greater appreciation of her own beauty. At the same time a friend strives to free himself from the haunting grasps of postwar Vietnam.
“In searching for a venue to house Strange Snow, we were looking for alternative spaces in which to give this play a different quality than that of a traditional theater,” said Riethmuller in a press release.
The restaging of the 1982 play by Stephen Metcalfe, which inspired the 1989 film Jacknife, will be presented in a non-traditional theater at 2 Great Jones Street to observe the importance of utilizing alternative spaces for theatrical functions.
“Despite the challenges that present themselves by being a non-traditional space, The Theater at 2 Great Jones serendipitously supports the needs of the production design,” Riethmuller said. “Strange Snow is about the hope of reconciling a past in order to progress forward, staging the play in this venue is also a commentary on using an array of vacant lots for theatrical purposes and the hopes of theatre thriving in these spaces.”
Accordingly, East 3rd Productions strives to produce art spontaneously and through a multitude of media. The work that this young company constructs through its three divisions of Ensemble, Cinema, and Visual transcends social, cultural, and political lines. The acclaimed production company recently presented the off-broadway premieres A Bicycle Country, The Weird Sisters, and the short film “Tapeworm”.
Showings run Thursdays and Fridays at 8 p.m. and Saturday at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. Tickets are available for $18 through the Brown Paper Tickets website. http://brownpapertickets.com/