  A NEW PLAY IN A NEW SPACE: TEXAS LAW MEN PREMIERES IN THE HEIGHTS
August 12 - 14, 2010
New York Playwright Michael Swift Brings His Work Back Home
During the upcoming dog days of August, Houston will host the premiere of Texas Law Men, a firecracker of a play about the life and courtroom battles of a group of hard living and hard working attorneys in the Houston law scene...
The play is "full of bluster, goodness and lies. A funny, full-on, rowdy play about power," says Keith Nobbs, an actor and director who recently starred in HBO's war drama 'The Pacific'.
Houston performances will be held Aug. 12-14 at 8 p.m., with a 2 p.m. matinee performance on Saturday, Aug. 14th, at Obsidian Arts Space located at 3522 White Oak Drive just off of Heights Blvd. Tickets are $15 in advance, and $18 at the door.
Texas Law Men, written and directed by Houston-raised playwright Michael Swift, will feature his talented brother Terry Swift as Mark Sharp, a driven young lawyer who gets taken under the wing of the brilliant and ornery veteran litigator Drayton Kane, which will be played by Ralph Ehntholt.
With the help of fiery secretary Nadine Blue (Whitney Dwire) and their old buddy Billy Goodnight (Peter Nobbs), the lawyers square up against the state’s deadest shot plaintiff attorney in the state Royce Gunner (Richard Reyes) in a multi-million dollar high stakes case involving teenage mother Angel de la Fuentes (Cindy LaRotta) and the delivery of her subsequently brain damaged child.
As the complexities of the case’s morality issues unravel throughout the performance, the personal stakes for Sharp’s and his new bride Lorena (Ryann Chambers) also rise as he struggles to maintain a balance between winning the case and meeting the challenges of being a family mane. The play explores the fleeting nature of truth and the obsessive side of greatness in a modern Western-cum-Courtroom drama that has been described as “’Law and Order’ meets Butch Cassidy” by Jeffrey Glaser, Associate Producer at the Classical Theatre of Harlem.
Texas Law Men is a production of Brooklyn, NY based Family Tree Collective, brought to Houston by Centre Stage, a Kingwood-based Theatrical Company where teamwork, focus, and a sense of community are brought together to stage high quality theatre productions to benefit the greater Houston community.
Tickets can be purchased by visiting centrestagetheatre.tix.com or calling 281-540-0078
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