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by August Strindberg
a collaboration between Damon Bonetti, Kittson O'Neill, and Frank X Associate Producers Gayle and David Smith 
The PAC returns to the historic Franklin Inn Club for a special four night only event!
A husband and wife with a rocky marriage approach their 25th wedding anniversary. Living isolated on an island, their vitriol towards each other forces their own children to take sides. When a cousin comes to visit, plots are hatched and untoward alliances forged. A dark psychological comedy about the unfairness of divorce, child custody, this is pure Strindberg in his emotionally wracked, brilliant best. Choice of one wine, beer or non-alcoholic beverage included in full price ticket!
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Damon Bonetti DAMON BONETTI is a Philly based actor, director, musician, professor and the Producing Artistic Director of The PAC. As an actor for The PAC: Children of the Sun, The Duchess of Malfi, Creditors, All’s Well That Ends Well and Maria Marten. As director: QvK, The Sea Plays, Changes of Heart, Blood Wedding (co-production with MPiRP at Drexel) He Who Gets Slapped and The White Devil and Cato Remixed (Spring 25!). He received a Barrymore Nomination for Outstanding Director for True Story at Passage Theater. Recent acting: T.REXTASY (100th Meridian/Cannonball Festival) Tuesdays with Morrie (Totem Pole Playhouse), Driving Miss Daisy (East Lynne Theater), Twelfth Night (Lantern Theater) A Few Good Men, (Bristol Riverside Theatre), The 39 Steps (Montgomery Theater - also director) The Best Man (Walnut Street Theatre), The Hound of the Baskervilles (Delaware Theater Company and Theatre Horizon) Damon earned his MFA at the FSU/Asolo Conservatory. www.damonbonetti.net
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ALICE
Kittson O'Neill KITTSON O'NEILL has performed on many local stages: Philadelphia Theater Company, People’s Light, InterAct and The Lantern to name a few. She was the Artistic Director of Shakespeare in Clark Park for 8 years, where she led the company to a deep commitment to Radical Community Engagement. Before that she was the Artistic Associate at Interact Theater Company. She is also a director and brought shows to the stage with SCP, Boise Contemporary Theater, Tiny Dynamite and many others. Up next she is directing Iphegenia in Splott for Inis Nua Theater. You can also see her on TV in MARE OF EASTTOWN, LAW & ORDER:SVU and others, playing many cops and moms. When she is not working as a freelance artist, she is the theater teacher and resident director at Abington Friends School. Go Roos!
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EDGAR
Frank X FRANK X was last seen in the Philadelphia Theater Company production of THE DUAT - for which he received a 2024 Barrymore Award nomination. Favorite roles have included: “Malvolio” in TWELFTH NIGHT (Seattle Rep), “Hector” in THE HISTORY BOYS (Arden Theater), “Sterling North” in PERMANENT COLLECTION and “Molina” in KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN (both at InterAct Theater), “Estragon” in WAITING FOR GODOT (Quintessence Theater) and “Thomas More” in A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS and “Sam” in MASTER HAROLD…AND THE BOYS (both at Lantern Theater). Mr. X is delighted to be making his PAC debut in THE (HAPPY HOUR) DANCE OF DEATH
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More about the historic Franklin Inn Club
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Founded in 1902, the Franklin Inn Club was originally created as a hub for writers and illustrators, but its illustrious membership soon expanded to include poets, playwrights, scholars, and journalists. The Inn's first home was on Chancellor Street, but in 1907, it was relocated to its current home at 205 S. Camac St. The architect Francis G. Caldwell combined seven small rowhouses to create the inn, and the interior was decorated to evoke the kind of 18th-century coffeehouses that its namesake - Benjamin Franklin - was fond of frequenting.
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Camac Street itself was one of the last surviving roads in the city to be paved with wooden blocks. Originally an effort by city planners in the 1830s to cut down on the sound of horses hooves clip-clopping along the cobblestone, the wooden blocks held up poorly in the elements and had to be replaced many times over the decades. They were finally covered with asphalt in 2015, but a restoration effort is currently underway to restore the singular wood-paved street by the end of the year.
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The Franklin Inn Club originally limited its membership to published writers and illustrators, but gradually it expanded to include members from many fields, including the arts, education, social and political affairs, history, science, economics, medicine, and law. Early members wrote and produced all kinds of theatrical productions—a tradition that the Club recently revived, and which continues to this day. It was also one of the first private clubs to accept women as members, going co-ed in 1980.
The walls of the Club are lined with books written or illustrated by club members, including prominent members such as S. Weir Mitchell - a novelist, a poet, and a famed neurologist fascinated with wounded soldiers and rattlesnake-bite victims, J. William White - a surgeon at UPenn and the last man in Pennsylvania to be challenged to a duel, and N. C. Wyeth - one of America's most famous illustrators, with over 112 books to his credit. Learn more about the Franklin Inn Club at their website here! |
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