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 Pontiac T Au R ANT FOR RESERVATIONS CALL (248) 334-7878 or e-mail: eWeddingLinx.com 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 4 ‘ ‘‘e *AV Qatneolie havirio the one of thew life... SUZANNE CHESSLER oik0 :4614.: 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.