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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color="#993300" face=Verdana><span
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>One-man, dramatic
monologue by <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Ireland</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s
acclaimed contemporary playwright,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3 color=black
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>Conor
McPherson (“The Seafarer,” “The Weir”). The sole
character, a middle-aged,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3 color=black
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>worn
out <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Dublin</st1:place></st1:City>
theater critic, tells his guests (the audience) how his obsession<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3 color=black
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>with
a young actress led to working for a house of vampires in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">London</st1:place></st1:City>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'> “<i><span
style='font-style:italic'>St Nicholas</span></i>, like other McPherson work, is
good dramatic art,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>drawing us, eyes open,
through the murky world of our dreams.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>–Ted Phelps<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></strong></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><strong><b><font
size=4 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>“ST
NICHOLAS” PLAY FOR ST. PATRICK’S DAY, IN<st1:city u1:st="on"> <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">HUDSON</st1:place></st1:City><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></strong></st1:city></p>
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size=3 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Hudson</st1:city> –
On St. Patrick’s Day and the following two evenings, Columbia County
resident Ted Phelps will present Conor McPherson’s one-man play,
“St Nicholas,” at Space 360 in Hudson, NY. March 17 marks the
13th anniversary of the play’s opening in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">New York City</st1:City></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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size=3 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>McPherson
is a highly acclaimed contemporary Irish playwright with a taste for the
paranormal. His popular play, “The Weir,” tells ghost stories, and
“The Seafarer” brings the devil to a game of poker. In “St
Nicholas” McPherson does vampires. Phelps plays the sole character, a
middle-aged, worn out<span class=apple-converted-space> <st1:city u1:st="on"></span><st1:City
w:st="on">Dublin</st1:city></st1:City><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>theater
critic, who tells his guests (the audience) how his obsession with a young
actress led to working for a house of vampires in<span
class=apple-converted-space> <st1:city u1:st="on"></span><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">London</st1:city></st1:place></st1:City>. Phelps describes the tale
as “a man unzipping his life…brutal and crude and poetic.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Phelps,
inspired by playing Jimmy in McPherson’s “The Weir” for
Theater Voices in<span class=apple-converted-space> <st1:city u1:st="on"></span><st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Albany</st1:city></st1:City></st1:place><span
class=apple-converted-space> </span>last spring, went on to learn
“St Nicholas” over the summer and performed it in his Victorian
home in Valatie on Halloween. Guests said it was “authentic and
mesmerizing.” Phelps discovered that “A Victorian living room at
night is probably the ideal setting for this play. McPherson may have wanted
the play to be done this way, even though it’s hard to make it profitable
on that scale.” John Velie, who directed “The Weir” last
spring in Albany attended Phelps’ Halloween “St Nicholas” and
said , “I so appreciated the sound of footsteps slowly coming down the stairs
at the open. You put us in the room with you and made the occasion of our
gathering an integral part of the performance. It worked! I've never seen
this play performed elsewhere, but I can't imagine it having the same power in
a large theater.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Phelps
is recreating that intimate, face-to-face dramatic space at<span
class=apple-converted-space> <st1:city u1:st="on"></span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Hudson</st1:city></st1:City></st1:place>’s Space 360. The
venue is well known to the actor as he performed two dramatic monologues there
in 2009. Phelps, who has performed locally for<span
class=apple-converted-space> <st1:personname u1:st="on"></span>Ghent
Playhouse</st1:personname>, Theater Voices, and Walking the Dog Theater says he
is “an actor for the love of art” and chose this play because
“it is good dramatic art, drawing us, eyes open, through the murky world
of our dreams.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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