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Rocking Horse Winner
by Gareth Williams & Anna Chatterton
Approaching Ali
by D.J. Sparr, Mark Campbell, & Davis Miller
March 31, 2023 at 7:30 pm @ Manship Theatre

April 2, 2023 at 3:00 pm @ Manship  Theatre

Rocking Horse Winner 
by Gareth Williams & Anna Chatterton

A modern adaptation of D.H. Lawrence’s short story, Rocking Horse Winner explores the relationship between Paul, a young man with developmental challenges, and his emotionally distant mother. Paul becomes dangerously obsessed with solving the “bad luck” of his family in order to win his mother’s love. His pursuit awakens a strange magic that connects him to luck, but also to powerful voices only he can hear. In our new age of entitlement Rocking Horse Winner is an intimate, psychological look at love, “luck”, and greed.

MANSHIP THEATRE / MARCH 31 / APRIL 2 / 2023 

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Hope Briggs

Ava

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Joseph Ittoop

Paul

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Tyler Smith

Oscar

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Eric Morgan

Bassett

Approaching Ali
by D.J.Sparr,  Mark Campbell, & Davis Miller

The story is about a boy in North Carolina in the early 1960s who is galvanized to overcome some traumatic childhood events when he sees Muhammad Ali on television. More than twenty years later, as a writer on the brink of middle age, he now seeks to rekindle that spirit by visiting his boyhood hero in person at his mother's home in Louisville, Kentucky.

MANSHIP THEATRE / MARCH 31 / APRIL 2 / 2023 

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Scott Purcell

Davis

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Calvin Carline

 Young Davis

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Brandon Coleman

Muhammad Ali

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Hope Briggs

Odessa Clay

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Tyler Smith

Roy Miller

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Whitney Robinson

 Sara Miller

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Michael Borowitz

Conductor

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Jonathan De Los Santos

Stage Director

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Ivan Griffin

Assistant Stage Director

Join us for a preshow talk about the operas beginning 1 hour before the show featuring composer D.J. Sparr.

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