Some Things That Can Go Wrong at 35,000 Feet

August 1939. The marriage of Charles & Anne Lindbergh is in crisis, devestated by the kidnap/ murder of the couple's first-born son. And into this tension-filled household enters the famous French aviator & author -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery, who falls in love-at-first-sight with this unhappy wife of the most famous aviator in the world. By the end of a bittersweet weekend, Antoine irrevocably changes the lives of his hosts – and his own – as he discovers the emotional sacrifice that leads him to create one of the world's most beloved stories, The Little Prince.

Taylor Gilbert & Sam Anderson present
the 2011 Summer Playwright Festival

Some Things That Can Go Wrong at 35,000 Feet

Written by
John Orlock

Directed by
Dennis Gersten

CAST
Kevin Ashworth, Dennis Gersten, Tracy Maddox*

Sunday - July 17th - 8pm - In the Gallery

About the Playwright
JOHN ORLOCK’s works have been produced at such major regional theaters as the Oregon Shakespeare Festival; The Cleveland Play House; Alley Theatre, Houston; Cricket Theatre, Minneapolis; Arizona Repertory Theatre; the North Carolina Shakespeare Festival; Remains Theater, Chicago, as well as internationally at the Focus Theatre, Dublin, and the Hungarian National Theatre. He’s a recipient of writing fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as fellowships from the Minnesota State Arts Board, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Blue Mountain Colony, and the Sewanee Writers Conference. His screenplay, The End-of-Summer Guest was awarded the third place prize in the 2009 American Screenwriters Association International Screenplay Competition. Also that year, his play The Specificity of Paradise was selected for development at the PlayPenn New Play Festival in Philadelphia. Earlier this year his play New Orleans won first place in 16th Annual Premiere One-Act Competition sponsored by the Moving Arts Theater Company in Los Angeles. Mr. Orlock is currently on the faculty of Case Western Reserve University where he holds the Samuel B. and Virginia C. Knight Chair in Humanities, and conducts a popular seminar, Fly- Fishing: the Sport, the Metaphysics, & the Literature.

About the Playwright

JOHN ORLOCK’s works have been produced at such major regional theaters as the Oregon Shakespeare Festival; The Cleveland Play House; Alley Theatre, Houston; Cricket Theatre, Minneapolis; Arizona Repertory Theatre; the North Carolina Shakespeare Festival; Remains Theater, Chicago, as well as internationally at the Focus Theatre, Dublin, and the Hungarian National Theatre.

He’s a recipient of writing fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as fellowships from the Minnesota State Arts Board, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Blue Mountain Colony, and the Sewanee Writers Conference. His screenplay, The End-of-Summer Guest was awarded the third place prize in the 2009 American Screenwriters Association International Screenplay Competition. Also that year, his play The Specificity of Paradise was selected for development at the PlayPenn New Play Festival in Philadelphia.

Earlier this year his play New Orleans won first place in 16th Annual Premiere One-Act Competition sponsored by the Moving Arts Theater Company in Los Angeles.

Mr. Orlock is currently on the faculty of Case Western Reserve University where he holds the Samuel B. and Virginia C. Knight Chair in Humanities, and conducts a popular seminar, Fly- Fishing: the Sport, the Metaphysics, & the Literature.

* denotes member of Actors' Equity Association

This project is supported in part, by a grant from the City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs and also supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission.