The Acting Company Returns to Asheville
The renowned theater artists will return to Diana Wortham Theater on February 28 and March 1, 2025.
Last season, The Acting Company blew Asheville audiences away with a modern interpretation of Homer’s The Odyssey, which followed four young women in a refugee camp, each retelling the adventures of Odysseus as they struggled with their own search for a home.
Returning to the Wortham for a second consecutive year, the troupe is offering two more superbly directed classic plays for local audiences.
The Comedy of Errors was one of Shakespeare’s earliest plays, a slapstick comedy about mistaken identities. In the Acting Company’s interpretation—including a 21st-century translation that reinterprets antiquated slang, metaphor, and double entendre with updated jokes and clever, modern wordplay—the production updates Elizabethan-era jokes and breathes new life into the double (and triple) entendres.
The story line remains familiar to all: Antipholus and his servant, Dromio, traveling in search of a long-lost family member, get mixed up in a madcap race against the clock, love-at-first-double-take, run-ins with local law enforcement, and double trouble times two. This madcap whirl through bawdy adventures, mad scientists, romance, heartfelt reunions, and even a few happy endings will excite and titillate any audience.
Catch The Comedy of Errors on Friday, February 28, 2025 at 8 p.m. Tickets at www.worthamarts.org/events/the-acting-company-presents-the-comedy-of-errors.
The following evening, Saturday, March 1 at 8 p.m., acclaimed African American playwright August Wilson’s Two Trains Running tells the story of Memphis Lee—a diner owner in a historically black neighborhood in Pittsburgh at the height of the civil rights movement—who must decide if he should allow the government to take over his building or sell the property to a ruthless businessman. Full of vivid characters, joy, hope, love and perseverance, this Tony-nominated play celebrates the spirit, laughter, heart and resilience of the people who make our country great even when faced with overwhelming odds.
Two Trains Running contains mature content, including the discussion of political violence, war, references to self-harm, profanity, and the use of a prop cigarette and a prop gun, as well as racially charged language and the use of the n-word (appropriate to the period and authentic to the experiences of the characters portrayed).
Purchase tickets for Two Trains Running at www.worthamarts.org/events/the-acting-company-presents-two-trains-running.
For more information, contact the Diana Wortham box office at (828) 257-4530, by email at [email protected], or visit the website at boxoffice.worthamarts.org.
