Shelita Burns, an African-American editor, publishes Bee-luther-hatchee, the autobiography of a reclusive 72-year-old woman named Libby Price. When the book wins a prestigious award, Shelita decides to seek out Libby, whom she has never met, and deliver the prize to her in person. To her profound shock, the actual author of the book is a white man named Sean Leonard. Furious and resentful, Shelita accuses Sean of perpetrating a hoax, while he defends the book as a truthful work of imagination.

"Bee-Luther-Hatchee" previews on Friday, April 4, opens on Saturday, April 5 and runs through May 4. Tickets are $20 adult, $18 seniors 60+, $15 for students and may be purchased by calling 303-780-7836. Information at www.modernmusetheatre.com.

Literary hoaxes abound. Just this month Margaret Seltzer confessed that her book, "Love and Consequences: A Memoir of Hope and Survival," written under the pseudonym Margaret B. Jones, was made up. This came hot on the heels of Misha Defonseca's February admission that "Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years" was a fake and who can forget "A Million Little Pieces," James Frey's "fictionalized" memoir of drug and alcohol addiction that rocked Oprah's world.

The stellar cast includes Jada Roberts*(Curious Theatre Co. Paris on the Platte), Mark Rubald*(Arvada Center Mice and Men), Denise Perry-Olson (Curious Theatre Co. How I Learned to Drive, Daniel Langhoff (Aurora Fox Moby Dick, the Musical) and making her Denver debut, Denielle Fisher.

*courtesy of Actors Equity

Thomas Gibbons is playwright-in-residence at InterAct Theatre in Philadelphia, which has produced six of his plays: Pretending to America, 6221, Axis Sally, Black Russian, Bee-luther-hatchee, and Permanent Collection. His plays have been seen at the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center, off-off-Broadway at Blue Heron Theatre, Mixed Blood Theatre, Center Stage and others. He is the recipient of six playwriting fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a Roger L. Stevens Award from the Fund for New American Plays, a Barrie and Bernice Stavis Playwriting Award, two Barrymore Awards for outstanding new play, and a Pew Fellowship in the Arts.

"A powerful, provocative piece of theatrical writing. You want to run down the street twisting people's arms to see it." -- Linda Eisenstein, Cleveland Plain Dealer

Modern Muse Theatre Company presents the Regional Premiere

Bee-luther-hatchee
by Thomas Gibbons
A publishers search for an elusive author leads to a shocking discovery.
Previews Friday, April 4

Apr. 5 - May 4
Fri - Sat 8 p.m.\ Sun. 2 p.m.

The Bug Theatre, 3654 Navajo Street, Denver, CO 80211

Tickets: $20 Adult\$18 seniors 60+\$15 students

For tickets call 303-780-7836 or online at www.modernmusetheatre.com

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