After opening its 13th season last weekend, the Culver City Public Theatre returns with more free entertainment on Saturday and Sunday at 12 noon with “Big Bad Wolf Tales.”
It is the first of two shows each day, followed at 2 o’clock by “Around the World in 80 Days.”
The setting is leafy Carlson Park, at the intersection of Braddock Drive and Le Bourget.
The play was written and directed by Blake Anthony Edwards, debuting as a writer for the Children’s Popcorn Theatre, the seasonal show specifically for young audiences.
Mr. Edwards may be remembered from his roles in Culver City Public Theatre productions as as “King Midas,” “The Good Doctor,” “SDlue-foot SDue and Pecos Bill,” and “She Stoops to Conquer.” Big Bad Wolf Tales is billed as an hilarious, imaginative re-telling of three classic wolf stories.
The hungry, down-on-his-luck anti-hero encounters the Three Little Pigs, Little Red Riding Hood, and the Boy Who Cried Wolf.
With Eric Pierce as Big Bad Wolf, Josh Green as Boy/Peter Pig/ Doc, Donna Donnelly as Mother/Mama Pig/Grandma, Victor Holstein as Father/Paulie Pig/Hunter, and Chase McKenna as Priscilla Pig/Little Red Riding Hood.
Co-produced by Laura Boccaletti and Heidi Dotson, with costumes by Marcy Hiratzka, set by Robert Ballo, and sound design by Sylvia Monge.
The Culver City Public Theatre’s first main stage show of the summer, Around the World in 80 Days, is directed by Mike Peebler, who debuted last year with “The Merry Wives of Windsor (New Jersey).
No stranger to outdoor productions, he has worked extensively with Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum, and has appeared on television and in films including “Medium,” “Num3rs,” “Las Vegas,” a”Scrubs” and “Valkyrie.”
Around the World is an action adventure complete with stampeding elephants, raging typhoons, runaway trains, and high-spirited fun. Fearless adventurer Phileas Fogg, with his loyal manservant, Passepartout, set off to circumnavigate the globe in a mere 80 days.
Tenaciously pursued by Detective Fix, a lawman who mistakes Fogg for a bank robber, the tension builds as danger, romance and hilarious surprises abound in this whirlwind, family fare. With Christine Breihan as Actor 4, Jeena Yi as Actor 1, Marc Fellnererez as Actor 3, Ron Geren as Actor 5, and James Clark as Actor 2. Costumes by Laurie Peebler, set by Robert Ballo, sound design by Mike Peebler, and stage managed by Misty Sutherland. Rounding out this sum will be “Little Women,” which opens on Saturday, Aug. 6, at 2 p.m.
For information: info@ccpt.org or 310.712.5482.
