ART
Wednesday thru sunday july 14—august 1
Yasmina Reza's Tony Award-winning comedy is a razor-sharp exploration of friendship, taste, and the surprising power of a single painting to expose years of unspoken truths. When one man purchases an outrageously expensive work of modern art—a nearly all-white canvas—three lifelong friends find themselves in a hilarious and deeply revealing battle over aesthetics, loyalty, and identity.
Performance Information
All are 1 pm indoor performances at Grizzly Peak Winery. Wednesdays—Sundays, July 14-August 1.
The performance runs 85 minutes with no intermission. $40 ($45 at door).
July 14 Preview: Discount tickets. $30
July 15 Opening: Join us after the show for wine or sparkling water and a talk back with the actors and director. Benefit for Planned Parenthood SW Oregon. $60. ($65 at door). Thursday Talkbacks are $45 ($50 at door).
Ticket benefits and discounts: Wine Wednesdays (July 21 and 28), Talkbacks Thursdays (July 22 and 29) , Friend Fridays (July 16, 23, 30). Click here for more info. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be transferred to a different production. You may exchange your tickets for another performance of Art (subject to availability) for a $5 fee per order, $10 per order within 48 hours of showtime, payable at check-in. Email here. You may also donate your tickets back to the theater or transfer them to another person seeing the play on the same date.
Need access seating? The winery is mobility accessible. Arrive by 12:10 and let the reception staff know when you check in. Note that seats may be reserved as a donor benefit.
Are you a group of six or more who booked under the same reservation? We will seat you together.
Food Bank: We collect non-perishables on the patio before every performance. If you’re able, please consider helping support our neighbors in need.
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Meet the Artists
Marco Barricelli ( Marc)
Marco has appeared on Broadway in Tamara and off-Broadway in Agamemnon. He was the Artistic Director at Shakespeare Santa Cruz 2008-14, an Associate Artist at the American Conservatory Theatre, and spent many seasons at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. His acting and directing credits also include Subaru Theatre (Tokyo), Guthrie Theater, Mark Taper Forum (CTG), The Old Globe, La Jolla Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, South Coast Repertory, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Huntington Theatre Company, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Arizona Theatre Company, Portland Center Stage, Intiman Theatre, Missouri Repertory Theatre, Virginia Stage Company, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Kenyon Festival Theater, the California, Utah and Illinois Shakespeare Festivals, among many others. Screen credits include Pixar’s Luca and Ciao Alberto, The Book of Daniel, Holy Silence, L.A. Law, Romeo and Juliet, Manhunt 2, Mafia, The Old Country, Clandestiny, and 11th Hour. He is a graduate of the Juilliard School and holds an Honorary Degree from American Conservatory Theatre.
Michael Elich (Serge)
Michael has appeared in Rogue Theater Company’s productions of Off Peak, the play reading of August: Osage County, and Chapatti. A Juilliard graduate, Michael spent 21 seasons as an OSF acting company member, where he was seen in roles as varied as Claudius in Hamlet; The Pirate King in The Pirates of Penzance; Orsino and Feste in Twelfth Night; King John in King John; Harold Hill in The Music Man; Jaggers in Great Expectations; Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew; Kodaly in She Loves Me; Prince John in The Heart of Robin Hood; Marcus in Party People; Aufidius in Coriolanus; Buckingham in Richard III; Harry Van in Idiot’s Delight; Thersites in Troilus and Cressida; The Actor in Enter the Guardsman; Hotspur and Bardolph in Henry IV; Antonio in The Merchant of Venice; Hap in Death of a Salesman; and Moe Axelrod in Awake and Sing!, among others. In three seasons with the Utah Shakespeare Festival, Michael has been seen as Long John Silver in Treasure Island; The Duke of York in the Henry VI trilogy; Macduff in Macbeth; Burbage in Shakespeare in Love; and Jaques in As You Like It. Internationally, he premiered in David Edgar’s Continental Divide as Don D’Avanzo at London’s Barbican Theatre and the Birmingham Repertory Theatre. Michael has appeared in numerous Off-Broadway and regional theaters including Party People at The Public Theatre; Mark Rothko in RED; Prime Minister Evans in King Charles III; Claudius and The Ghost in Hamlet at the Clarence Brown Theatre; Gregor in The Monster Builder; and as Victor (2015 Drammy Award) in The Price at Artists Repertory Theatre. Other theaters include Playwrights Horizons, The York Theatre Company, Orpheum Theatre, Hartford Stage, Milwaukee Rep, Syracuse Stage, Berkeley Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, the Dallas Theatre Company, and the 30th anniversary production of Inherit the Wind with E. G. Marshall and Robert Vaughn at The Papermill Playhouse. TV credits include One Life to Live and Ryan’s Hope. michaelelich.com
Jay Karnes (Yvan)
Jay Karnes is grateful to be working again in Ashland, where he spent three seasons in the company at OSF. Other regional credits include Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Missouri Repertory Theatre, South Coast Repertory, California Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare Festival/L.A., and the Matrix Theatre Company. Television credits include seven seasons on the Golden Globe-winning drama The Shield, as well as recurring roles on The Crossing, Sons of Anarchy, Burn Notice, Last Resort, Gang Related, 12 Monkeys, The Night Agent, and Star Trek: Picard, among others.
Robynn Rodriguez (Director)
Robynn has directed Waiting for Godot, Off Peak, Chapatti, and Circle Mirror Transformation for RTC. She is an actor who began directing plays professionally in 2013. Once a resident actor at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, her acting work has been seen at the Public Theatre, Guthrie Theater, Shakespeare Theatre Company, the Kennedy Center, Berkeley Rep, and the Barbican (UK), among others. She has directed King John, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, and As You Like It at the Utah Shakespeare Festival, A Lovely Sunday For Creve Coeur at American Players Theatre, Richard III at Pacific Conservatory Theatre, Hedda Gabler at West Virginia University, and Twelfth Night at University of Texas. Robynn’s work as a director has been a welcome and challenging extension of her work as an actor. robynnrodriguez.com
Yasmina Reza (Playwright)
Yasmina is a French playwright and novelist, based in Paris, whose works have all been multi-award-winning, critical and popular international successes. Her plays, Conversations After a Burial, The Passage of Winter, Art, The Unexpected Man, Life x 3 and A Spanish Play, God of Carnage, How You Talk the Game and Bella Figura have been produced worldwide and translated into thirty-five languages. In 1995, Art premiered in Paris and went on to win the Molière Award for Best Author. Since then it has been produced world-wide and translated and performed in over 30 languages. The London production received the 1996-97 Laurence Olivier Award and Evening Standard Award and the Tony award in 1998 in New York. God of Carnage, opened on 8 December 2006 at the Schauspielhaus in Zurich, directed by Jürgen Gosch, received the Viennese Nestroy-Theatreprize for the best German-language performance of the season. In Paris on 25 January 2008 at the Théâtre Antoine, Yasmina Reza directed the play with Isabelle Huppert. Since she directed How you play the game and Bella Figura and Anne-Marie la Beauté in Paris. Novels include: Hammerklavier, Une Desolation, Adam Haberberg, Dans la Luge d’Arthur Schopenhauer, Nulle Part and L’Aube le Soir ou la Nuit (This novel Dawn, Dusk and Night, has been translated over 40 countries and was printed in April 2008 in America - Knopps editions.) The novel Happy are the happy has been translated worldwide and won the award Le Monde. The novel Babylone, published in 2016 won the prestigious Renaudot Award. Her last novel Serge, has had a huge success in France. Yasmina directed her first movie Chicas in 2010.