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Stage

Hot Ticket: Not the weekend they were hoping for

By JOHN FLEMING
Published July 20, 2006


Peter Thomasson, Gabriel V. Ortiz and Barbara Redmond star in The Retreat from Moscow, the William Nicholson play that is being given its regional premiere by Banyan Theater Company. It's about a long-married couple whose son visits them on the weekend that his father decides to leave his mother for another woman.

Directed by Chris Dolman, the play opens tonight and runs through Aug. 6 at the Cook Theatre of the FSU Center for the Performing Arts, 5555 N Tamiami Trail, Sarasota. $27.50; student tickets are $8. (941) 552-1032; www.banyantheatercompany.com.

- JOHN FLEMING, Times performing arts critic

[Last modified July 25, 2006, 07:27:21]


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