News & Reviews Abundance
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‘Abundance’ proves dark, funny
Winston-Salem Journal
May 14, 2015
All of us are prey to illusion, delusion and disillusionment, and none of us knows what turns our lives will take or how graciously — or resentfully — we will weather them. Like life, Abundance is sad, humorous and hopeful, sometimes dark and difficult but, ultimately, worth the effort.
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For richer or poorer in the Old West
Triad City Beat
May 13, 2015
Times change; people change; fortunes wax and wane. But friends are forever. Or maybe not, in the case of Abundance. Winston-Salem’s Hanesbrands Theatre, in association with Triad Stage, debuted Beth Henley’s Western comedic drama, Abundance, on Saturday after three nights of preview performances. “It’s a great way to fulfill our name by playing in two of the Triad’s cities,” Richard Whittington, Triad Stage’s managing director, told the audience before the performance.
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CCD Review - Triad Stage's Abundance
Camel City Dispatch
May 13, 2015
Landscape is normally the domain of the painter, the photographer, or the filmmaker. Theater is often a venue reserved for smaller narratives that unfold with a direct intimacy between viewer and the performers. Triad Stage’s new production of Abundance completely shatters both of those conventions giving the audience a distinct impression of the epic landscapes of the American West, while at the same time telling a story as intimate as a campfire chat.
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THROUGH 5/17: Abundance: Triad Stage's Sleeper Hit of the 2014-15 Season
Classical Voice of North Carolina
May 9, 2015
The production plays like a good opera, with all elements working together in harmony and every aspect playing to its full potential... Triad Stage has given us one of the year's unexpected delights.
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Triad Arts Weekend : Beth Henley
88.5 WFDD
May 8, 2015
Back in 1978, American dramatist and actress Beth Henley won a Pulitzer Prize for her play Crimes of the Heart. It was the Mississippi native’s first professionally produced play, and since then Beth’s become one this country’s most influential theatre voices. That voice is well known for blending the comic and the serious in nearly all of her pieces. A wonderful example can be found throughout her play Abundance which opened earlier this week at Hanesbrands Theatre in Winston-Salem, and is directed by Preston Lane.
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Triad Stage trying something different with Henley plays
Winston-Salem Journal
May 3, 2015
Beth Henley thinks that what Triad Stage is doing with her work may be a first. “I think it’s unbelievably wonderful that they’re doing two of my plays back to back at two different theaters,” she said. “That’s just incredible. I don’t know if that’s ever happened before.” Triad Stage just finished a production of Henley’s most famous play, Crimes of the Heart, for which Henley won a Pulitzer Prize in drama. That play ran April 6-26 at the company’s theater in Greensboro. On Wednesday it begins previews of Henley’s Abundance at Hanesbrands Theatre.
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Wild West Weddings
Yes! Weekly
April 29, 2015
It’s 1860 and two young girls—mailorder brides—wait in the wild, western desert to meet their husbands. What they didn’t know they’d find is a friendship strong enough to withstand kidnapping, natural disasters, Indian escapades and even marriage. For its last show of its second Winston-Salem season, Triad Stage presents Abundance, a dusty tale of loss, adventure and dreams by playwright Beth Henley.
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