[Capdist-announce] Off Peak arrives at Great Barrington Public Theater

[GBPT]

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*For Immediate Release*

*Contact: Mike Clary*

*MrMikeClary1 at gmail.com* <MrMikeClary1 at gmail.com>

*518-267-0683*



*July 7, 2023*



*Off Peak** arrives at Great Barrington Public Theater. Brenda Withers’
buoyant comedy, directed by James Warwick, stars Peggy Pharr Wilson and
Kevin O’Rourke as long-lost lovers, bumping into each other on a stalled
Metro North train.*



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*Seventeen years after breaking up, Peggy Pharr Wilson as Sarita and Kevin
O'Rourke as Martin find themselves stuck on the tracks together. Photo
credit GBPT/Kat Humes*

*Off Peak* playing July 6-23rd, in the McConnell Theater, Bard College at
Simon’s Rock, is a tried-and-true comedy reminiscent of Noel Coward or Nora
Ephron, with the spark of Dorothy Parker, by award-winning playwright
Brenda Withers. It premiered in 2022 at the venerable Hudson Stage Company,
Armonk NY to unanimous delight before moving on to a short run at 59E59 St.
Theaters, NYC where it gained more positive notice. *The New Yorker *called
it “sly, smart, often very funny… Withers’ script provides an abundance of
emotional and intellectual twists and turns.”, and *The New York Times*
said it’s “so close to life that you expect a conductor to come in at any
second.”

GB Public gives audiences another chance to take in this charming,
disarming new comedy that plays especially funny for anyone who travels on
Hudson Valley trains.



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*The moment you bump into the one that got away. Photo GBPT/Kat Humes*



Sarita and Martin split seventeen years ago. Everything has changed, except
their irresistible attraction to each other, and the big question, ‘what
if?’.

When they find themselves caught together out-of-the-blue on the same train
just as it grinds to a dreaded, stuck-on-the-tracks delay, so begins a
serendipitous reconnection and reconciliation of a lifetime, the one so
many former lovers wish for, so they could end it right, once and for all,
without falling for the other’s tricks again. Their delay on the rails
becomes a poignant, rich comedy that must arrive at lovers’ resolution
before the train rolls on again.



*Brenda Withers* is a gifted writer for screen and stage. The GB Public’s
production of *Off Peak *pairs *Peggy Pharr Wilson *and *Kevin O’Rourke*,
two of the Berkshires’ finest comic actors with well-known stage and screen
actor *James Warwick* directing, who says, “Their lives have altered
course, as has their relationship. They find themselves revealing their
conflicted feelings about their past, about their present and with great
humor and compassion, discover reconciliation and forgiveness. It’s a
heartwarming story told with personal insight about two richly created,
recognizable people.”

Brenda Withers, James Warwick, Peggy Pharr Wilson and Kevin O’Rourke are
available to interview.



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*Off Peak *runs July 6-July 23, Thurs.- Sat., 7:30pm, Sat. and Sun., 3pm,
in the McConnell Mainstage Theater, Daniel Arts Center, Bard College at
Simon’s Rock, 84 Alford Road, Great Barrington, MA 01230. More information
can be found on the GBPT website
<https://www.greatbarringtonpublictheater.org/> and on Facebook
<https://www.facebook.com/GreatBarringtonPublicTheater/>. Tickets to
performances are affordable to all, between $25 and $50, and are available
on the website and by phone 413-372-1980, or GBPTboxoffice at gmail.com.

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