Curtain Call
AKE YOUR FIRST STEP
DOWN THE AISLE TO . • •
Pike Street Restaurant's
WEDDING OPEN HOUSE
Sept. 24, 2000 • 12:00 — 4:00 p.m.
Join us for a mock wedding.
This expo will let you see and
taste a Pike Street wedding
celebration. We will have a
beautiful buffet, wedding
cakes, flowers, music, a bridal
fashion show, and a photo
session for the couple or the
bride and maid of honor.
`The Maiden's
Prayer'
Performance Network
presents a touching and funny look
at relationships by playwright Nicky Silver.
$35 per person • $50 per couple
Includes: Lunch, beauty make-over
& professional photo for one or two
Downtown
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ALL MAJOR CREDIT CARDS ACCEPTED
Playwright
Nicky Silver:
"I saw that
most of the
plays produced
were pretty
bad. If I could
write one
that was just
mediocre,
II was surd
I could rise
to the top,
and that's
what I did."
R. Yam
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the one of thew life...
SUZANNE CHESSLER
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or getting married, building a new home, taking that trip they've
put off for 20 years....Look for our new section that celebrates
all these wonderful milestones in our lives!
LOOK FOR
9/22
2000
90
following the LIVING WELL section in your Jewish News!
Special to the Jezvish News
N
icky Silver knows he has a
reputation for writing
outrageous plays, but he
insists he's toning down.
Just take a look, he says, at The
Maiden's Prayer, which runs through
Oct. 15 at the Performance Network
in Ann Arbor.
"As I age, I find that I tend to
shock less," says Silver, 39, whose
play launches a new production
space for the theater company.
"Shocking audiences early in my
career got me noticed and produced,
but my concerns are different now
than they were 15 years ago or even
10 years ago.
"When I wrote the first draft of
Pterodactyls, which was the - first play
that brought me notoriety, relation-
ships between parents and children
were of great interest to me. The
scars of childhood are either healed
or so imbedded that they're no
longer evident.
"Fat Man in Skirts, which is about
incest and cannibalism and gets pro-
duced quite often, was much more
outrageous, but The Maiden's Prayer,
which is about relationships and the
difference between loving someone
and needing someone, is extremely
sedate."
The comedy, directed by
Performance Network Executive
Director Johanna Broughton, stars
David Wolber, Carla Milarch, Sarab
Kamoo, Scott Crownover and Bart
Williams.