Places - A New Play at the Towngate Theatre

Playwright and longtime creator of Mystery Theatre Unlimited productions, Butch Maxwell brings both a deep love of theatre and a sharp understanding of performance, identity, and human contradiction to his original play “Places”.

In Places, a suburban mother and former theatre critic joins a community production of The Importance of Being Earnest, awakening a long-dormant part of herself in the process. As rehearsals unfold, the line between performance and reality begins to blur, forcing her to confront the roles she has spent years inhabiting — wife, mother, critic, caretaker — and to question which of them are authentic, which are inherited, and which were chosen simply because they were expected of her. Set against the familiar chaos, humor, and vulnerability of community theatre, Places explores reinvention, marriage, memory, and the terrifying exhilaration of allowing yourself to be seen again.

June 12 & June 13 @ 8pm  or  June 14 @3pm

Tickets: OIonline.com or 304-242-7700