Current Disgraced Productions

“We’re in Cleveland now, Harvey. You don’t have to write about Cleveland when we’re in Cleveland.”
–Elton Pruit in Our Greatest Year

Harvey and Elton are in Cleveland and we will be too…

in conjunction with John Carroll University

presents

Your chance to see the NYTimes critic’s pick of last summer

by R. Attenweiler and S. Henkle

at

March 22-24, 2012

directed by Anna Brenner

with Rebecca Benhayon and Eric Slater
Jay Tekus (Animator / Editor)

“Our Greatest Year,” Robert Attenweiler’s tender and knowing inquiry into just why sports fans are so messed up, takes its time listening to what its characters say (or don’t say) and why. As such, it is an oasis of psychological complexity among the bells and whistles … and Mr. Henkle’s animations exquisitely capture the dysfunctional joys of suffering en masse.“

“Anna Brenner’s empathic direction brings this unflagging pessimist and his mystified wife to vivid life.” –NY Times

“[Rebecca Benhayon and Eric Slater] both give nuanced, deeply felt performances.”

“The play is filled with Attenweiler's signature poetic language, which does for Ohioans what Tennessee Williams's plays did for Southerners…” –nytheatre.com

“[Henkle’s art] has a dry, self-deprecating wit reminiscent of American Splendor…” –The Mary Sue

Limited Engagement in Cleveland.
3 Shows Only.
Tickets just $25 / $10 for students / all shows at 8pm.
A limited number of seats have been added to our SOLD OUT show Thursday and are AVAILABLE NOW.

Thursday's peformance includes special guest, Marla Ridenour, sports columnist for the Akron Beacon Journal. Marla has covered the Browns since 1981 and will take part in a brief talkback about the Browns, 2007 and Cleveland sports fans from a sports writer's perspective.

Friday's performance includes special guest, Scott Raab, writer for GQ and Esquire and author of The Whore of Akron: One Man's Search for the Soul of LeBron James.

Mr. Raab will join Robert and Scott on-stage after the show for a brief talkback about Our Greatest Year and writing about Cleveland.

Saturday's performance features a brief talkback with the writers, actors and directors of "Our Greatest Year

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is an innovative blend of live stage action and projected motion comics that follows Harvey Pruit, and his new wife, Elton, as they return to Cleveland, OH to care for his ailing father, watch another tortured year of Cleveland professional sports and learn about loss, losing, and the myths we create to make sense of both.
Click here to read more reviews of the show.

Click here to read the artists’ bios.
Click here to read Robert's article about sports and theater in The Classical.

Tickets can be purchased in advance through Brown Paper Tickets for $25 (plus a $1.87 processing fee). Students can use the discount code OGYS to receive $10 tickets (plus $1.34 processing fee - Student IDs need to be shown at the box office). Friends of JCU and Disgraced Productions can use the discount code OGYD to receive $20 tickets (plus $1.69 processing fee).

The production is made possible by the generous support of John Carroll University Department of English, John Carroll University College of Arts and Sciences, John Carroll University Provost's Office, and the John Carroll University Honors Program.