Final two weekends coming up for ‘The Family Tree,’ new dark comedy at The Magnetic Theatre in Asheville

The final two weekends are coming up for this play. Please get down to the River Arts District and support this incredible local theater and eatery. From The Magnetic Field and proprietor/loyal reader/friend Chall:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Local Playwright Lucia Del Vecchio’s The Family Tree, A

Dark Comedy About Eco-activism, has World Premiere at The Magnetic Field

The Magnetic Theatre, Asheville’s newest professional stage company and the only theatre in the Southeast dedicated exclusively to new works, will launch its latest world premiere May 7 (after low-priced previews May 5-6), their first scripted by a woman. The Family Tree, by local playwright, theatre critic, and Magnetic Theatre artistic associate Lucia Del Vecchio, is a dark comedy about eco-activism and familial relations. It plays at The Magnetic Field throughout May. “Lucia has created a riveting, revealing, always deeply thoughtful, occasionally hallucinatory, and alternately comic and moving wonder in The Family Tree,” according to the director, The Magnetic Theatre’s artistic director, Steven Samuels. “We couldn’t be more pleased to introduce yet another extraordinary playwright to audiences at The Magnetic Field.” 

Samuels has recently gained considerable notice for his directing, for both productions of his own When Jekyll Met Hyde, and for helming the acclaimed recent trilogy of plays by John Crutchfield. Del Vecchio, whose work has previously been produced to glowing critical praise in Texas, Florida, North Carolina, and New York City, has crafted a superb new vehicle for an ensemble of some of Asheville’s most talented and recognizable actors. 

The story of a maddening, hysterically dysfunctional family–replete with a domineering mother who rarely hears anyone but herself (Kathryn Langwell), a hapless father who repeatedly tries and fails to please everyone (Alphie Hyorth), a troubled daughter who has just run away from boarding school (Lisa Smith), another daughter recently jilted by her fiance (Tiffany Cade), a son who has effectively removed himself from the family through his environmental activism (Erik Moellering), and the son’s overly enthusiastic brother-in-arms (Darren Marshall), the gripping and hilarious Family Tree is sure to strengthen The Magnetic Field’s growing reputation as one of the most exciting theatres in the Southeast, and as a hub for the development and production of new plays.

Tickets $12/14. For tickets or reservations, please visit www.themagneticfield.com, call 828-668-2154, or stop by The

Magnetic Field at 372 Depot Street in Asheville’s River Arts District.