TWO volunteers to stage one-man show

April 6, 2019 | 3:10 am

Updated April 5, 2019 | 10:54 pm

Wes Bartlett will be performing a one-man show, “Pinstripe Suite,” as a fundraiser for the Theatre Workshop of Owensboro (TWO).

Wes Bartlett will be performing a one-man show, “Pinstripe Suite,” as a fundraiser for the Theatre Workshop of Owensboro (TWO).

Bartlett is a long-time volunteer with TWO and saw the play in the early 1990s, directed it when he was a professor at Kentucky Wesleyan College and performed it during his graduate studies at Virginia Commonwealth University.

The play is by Constance Alexander, a founding member and artistic director of the Western Kentucky Playwrights Festival for 15 years, writing as many plays in that time.

“She is also a published poet and writes for the Kentucky Arts Council,” Barlett said.

“Pinstripe Suite” is set in 1984 and Hal Fulmer, played by Bartlett, has been downsized from a Fortune 500 company. At the end of his last day on the job in middle management, his boss asks him to do a favor and Fulmer ends up waiting in an executive office suite for 12 hours.

“It is a play about the human consequences of corporate downsizing,” Bartlett said. “Everytime we want to eliminate jobs, which might be good for the bottom line, we need to consider how it will affect families. This makes us think about that.”

The show is directed by Brescia University professor Dr. Amanda Dawson, who is also donating her time as part of the fundraising effort.

Bartlett said that with the projects that TWO has coming up, along with the children’s programs expanding “leaps and bounds,” that instead of asking people to simply write a check, he wanted to entertain them.

“This is what I can do,” Bartlett said.

There will be two performances of “Pinstripe Suite.” Friday, April 12 there will be a dinner performance at 6:30 p.m. with food by Nona’s Market. On Saturday, a standard performance will be held at 7:30 p.m.

Both performances are at Trinity Centre, located at 407 W. Fifth St.

Friday night’s performance is $30, with dinner included. Tickets for the Saturday performance are $18 for adults and $12 for students. There will be a $2 surcharge for all tickets purchased at the performance.

Tickets can be purchased online.

April 6, 2019 | 3:10 am

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