Manbites Dog Theater presents

an oak tree
a play by Tim Crouch
directed by Jeff Storer
Featuring Dana Marks
March 8-24, 2007

an oak tree is the story of two men brought together by loss: a father whose daughter has been killed in a car accident and the driver of that car, a provincial stage hypnotist. For the first time since the accident these two men meet, when the father volunteers for the hypnotist's act...

The Hypnotist is played by Dana Marks; the Father is played by a different guest actor for each performance. The actors playing the Father walk on stage having neither seen nor read a word of the play they're in...until they're in it.

Manbites Dog's 20th season continues with the North Carolina premiere of an oak tree, a bold and absurdly comic new play about loss, suggestion, and the power of the mind, told with rich theatricality and shocking humour.
"An amazing amalgam of silent instruction, role-playing, flashback, and absurd irony...Truly astonishing." - Alan R. Hall, Triangle Theater Review

Photo: Dana Marks as The Hypnotist
(with guest actor LaMark Wright as The Father)
Photo by Alan Dehmer
NEW! More photos from the show

WHO'S THE DADDY?
an oak tree will feature a baker's dozen or so of some of the best actors in the Triangle (plus one from outside the Triangle) in the role of the Father. None of them will have seen or read the play prior to their performance. Actors playing the Father include: Marcia Edmundson, Greg Hohn, Jay O'Berski, Chaunesti Lyon, Katja Hill, David J. Berberian, Scott Robertson, Byron Jennings II, John Honeycutt, Mark Jeffrey Miller, Derrick Ivey, Carl Martin, Gregor McElvogue, Tamara Kissane, Jeffrey Scott Detwiler
Schedule of actors' performance dates

SPECIAL PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN PREVIEW:
Thursday March 8 at 8:15 (Door sales only; $5 minimum)

SPECIAL FUNDRAISER PERFORMANCE:
Saturday March 10 at 8:15, featuring Jay O'Berski as the Father
Tickets $25; includes post-show reception (no vouchers for this night)

SHOWS:
Thur-Sun March 8-11
Wed-Sun March 14-18
Wed-Sat March 21-24

Shows at 8:15 except
-- Sundays at 3:15;
-- Saturday March 17 Double Header at 7:00 & 9:30 p.m.
-- Saturday March 24 Double Header at 7:00 & 9:30 p.m.

TICKETS:
$15 Fri/Sat/Sun; $10 Wed/Thur
except:
- Thur March 8: Special Pay What You Can Preview
($5 minimum; door sales only)
- Sat March 10: Special Fundraising Performance
with reception following: $25
Season Vouchers good for all shows (except Saturday March 10)

Purchase tickets online (beginning Feb 9)
Phone: 919.682.3343
(Phone reservations for voucher holders only)

LOCATION: Manbites Dog Theater, 703 Foster Street in Durham.
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Manbites Dog Theater’s 2006-2007 season is made possible in part through gifts to the Durham Arts Council United Arts Fund, and by grants from the NC Arts Council, an agency supported by the state of North Carolina and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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