After fourteen years at University Mall (plus a couple months at University Place), Chapel Hill’s Deep Dish Theater Company is moving on – but they’re going out with a bang.
Beginning on Friday, October 2, Deep Dish will be presenting two plays in repertory, for the first time ever: the classic Russian drama (comedy? tragic farce?) “The Cherry Orchard” by Anton Chekhov, and one of the hottest new plays of the last few years, John Patrick Shanley’s comedy “Outside Mullingar.” (The two plays will share a set – fittingly, as both works deal heavily with our ties to the land.)
“Cherry Orchard” will open on October 2, with “Mullingar” opening on October 9. Each play will run for two or three nights at a time – and there will be two days (Saturday, October 24 and Saturday, November 7) where Deep Dish will stage both plays. The shows will close on Saturday, November 14.
Deep Dish artistic director Paul Frellick (who’s also directing “The Cherry Orchard”) joined Aaron Keck on WCHL Wednesday, along with actors Dorothy Recasner Brown (of “Cherry Orchard”) and Tom Marriott (of “Outside Mullingar”).
For more information on the schedule, tickets, and special events, visit this page on DeepDishTheater.org.
As for the future of Deep Dish after it leaves the mall in December: Frellick says plans are still in the works and he expects to have more concrete information once “Cherry Orchard” and “Mullingar” wrap up their runs.
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