Mildred's Umbrella Theatre Company presents the Houston Premiere of Naomi Wallace's, One Flea Spare, running April 24 - May 10, 2008 at the Midtown Arts Center, 3414 La Branch at Holman. One Flea Spare is the winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, Obie Award for Best Play, and voted The Best of Theatre in 1996 by Time Magazine.

Darkly comic and deeply moving by turns, One Flea Spare is set in plague-ravaged 17th Century London where social roles and the boundaries that describe them have turned upside down. The definition of morality is up for grabs. History is being tantalized. Upper and lower class are forced to live in quarantine together and the secrets and sins of the four shut-ins are laid bare. The New Yorker critically hailed the play as, "artful and haunting...One Flea Spare is built to provoke, not to distract, and it doesn't surrender its meanings easily."

When:

April 24 - May 10, 2008
Thursday - Saturday
Monday Performances April 28 & May 5, 2008
All Performances at 8PM

Proceeds from the May 1, 2008 performance will benefit the Homeless Pet Placement League.

Where: Midtown Arts Center, 3414 LaBranch at Holman, Houston, TX 77004

Ticket Prices: $13 General Public & $6 for Students & Seniors, pay as you like on Mondays.

Group rates available on request.

For Reservations Call: 832-418-0585 or info@mildredsumbrella.com.