World Premiere "Nicotine" Opens PST's 3rd Season

Nicotine by playwright, Julien Schwab has its World Premiere as the opening production of Personal Space Theatrics Season 3 -- Love For Sale.

NEW YORK, NY (PRWEB) September 14, 2004 -- This Fall - Kick Love! Personal Space Theatrics opens its third season on September 17, 2004 with the World Premiere of the new play Nicotine, by Julien Schwab. It asks the questions: Can we kick our addiction to love? Why am I still here and what does this person have to offer me? Why do we hold on to a person when they are obviously holding us back?" At once a hilarious look at serious issues and a stern look at trivial ones, Nicotine is a dark romantic comedy that travels from the end of relationships among five people bound together by love, addiction, and heartache to the beginning...and then back again.

To quote Director, Nicholas Cotz, Love is an addiction, more powerful than any drug. It can rip a soul in two and still a person comes back for more." Hailed by NOHO LA Magazine as ...a writer with a clear new voice", Mr. Schwab delves deep into those moments you realize you are in a relationship because it is comfortable.

Developed through PSTs New Playwrights Reading Series, Nicotine is directed by Associate Artistic Director, Nicholas Cotz. The collaboration of playwright and director began with Mr. Schwabs first work rogerandtom." This intimate character study kicked off PSTs 2002/03 Inaugural Season and has just completed a well received run in Los Angeles.

Returning to the company are Erik Gratton, seen in PSTs NY Premiere of The Duchess aka Wallis Simpson" and A Christmas Carol - In Concert" and Eric Miller who recreates his role from the initial reading. New to PST are cast members Vedette Lim, Beth Manspeizer and Erika Sheffer.

Nicotine runs from September 17 through October 3 2004 at Theatre 54@Shetler, 244 West 54th Street NY, NY. To buy tickets, logon to http://www.theatermania.com . This season, PST introduces TEN DOLLAR TUESDAYS -- All seats $10.00 and a discounted season subscription offer of $30.00 for the three show season.

Personal Space Theatrics was founded with the guiding principle that Theatre was created for audiences. The Company envisions a new environment of play-going, one where actors, audiences and plays themselves meet together in the same literal space without the conventional dual constructs of a stage and auditorium. To get more information, logon to www.personalspacetheatrics.org .

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