Lewis University Philip Lynch Theatre Presents Michael Green's "Four Plays for Coarse Actors"

"Four Plays for Coarse Actors," written by Michael Green, will be performed on November 17-19 and November 30- December 3 at Lewis University's Philip Lynch Theatre in Romeoville.

This Michael Green play is hilarious. Everything that can go wrong in a production does so. Coarse actors - an "actor" who knows all their lines but not necessarily the order in which they come, giving the company ample license to indulge in the kind of mistakes they spend most of their time trying to avoid. Broken into four plays within one, IL Fornicazione is a "grim" tale of operatic adultery, poison, and mayhem. Streuth is the crime story Agatha Christie would never have dared to write. A Collier's Tuesday Tea combines the kitchen with the coal mine with an irreverent glance at D.H. Lawrence. All's Well that Ends As You Like It pushes the genius of the bard to its limit while filching lines from most of his plays. In all, cues are missed, effects fail, and props are lost and confusion reigns, but the coarse actors struggle on.