Mustard Seed Theatre Announces
2010-2011 Season

St. Louis, Missouri - April 7, 2010 - 
Mustard Seed Theatre continues its mission of producing plays that explore questions of faith and social justice with an expanded four-show offering in 2010 - 2011. The season includes a collaboration with the New Jewish Theatre, two plays (including one world premiere) adapted from novels, and two plays based around the life and works of C.S. Lewis.  

First up is Crumbs from the Table of Joy, by Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage. Crumbs takes place in New York City, 1950, where African-American teen Ernestina Crumb tries to avoid the black-and-white reality of her life by escaping into colorful movie-scene fantasies. Directed by Linda Kennedy, Crumbs from the Table of Joy runs August 27 - September 12, 2010.   

Next is The Chosen, adapted by Aaron Posner from the novel by Chaim Potok. This production will be part of a "Potok-Posner Play Festival" produced collaboratively by the New Jewish Theatre and Mustard Seed Theatre from October 7 - November 7, 2010, with both plays directed by Deanna Jent.  My Name is Asher Lev, Potok's coming-of-age novel featuring a teen painter struggling with his Hasidic faith and family, will run October 7 - October 24 in the new theatre at the Jewish Community Center.  The Chosen, Potok's coming-of-age novel featuring an unlikely friendship between an observant Jewish teen and a Hasidic teen in the late 1940's, will run October 22 - November 7 in the Black Box Theatre at Fontbonne University. Adapter Aaron Posner will be on hand during the weekend of October 22 to participate in talk-backs for each show and present a workshop on adapting scripts.

The third production of the season explores the unlikely love story between Oxford professor C.S. Lewis (author of The Narnia Chronicles and The Screwtape Letters) and American poet Joy Gresham. Shadowlands, by William Nicholson, will feature Mustard Seed Theatre Resident Artists Gary Wayne Barker and Kelley Ryan as Lewis and Gresham, and runs January 27 - February 13, 2011.

Closing the season will be a new play: Till We Have Faces, adapted by Deanna Jent from the novel by C.S. Lewis.Faces re-imagines the Greek myth of Psyche from the point of view of one of her sisters, a strong and stubborn Queen who must surrender to invisible forces in order to rescue Psyche and discover her own true identity.  Till We Have Faces runs April 15 - May 1, 2011.

All shows are performed in the Black Box Theatre at Fontbonne University. For more information, call 314-719-8060.