ADVICE
July 31 - August 15
A LIVELY & IRREVERENT NEW COMEDY OF BAD MANNERS
By Brent Askari
Directed by Adrienne Campbell- Holt
ABOUT THE PLAY
NEW ENGLAND PREMIERE! This play just completed its National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere
What happens when a wildly unqualified man writes a self-help book… and then shows up to test it on his friends?
Ron and Joy’s anniversary dinner goes spectacularly off the rails when Gary — recently divorced, chronically chaotic, and newly self-declared life coach — shows up with a surprise: a self-help book he’s written called How To Maximize The Most Successful You. The problem? His life is a mess.
As Ron and Joy attempt a well-meaning intervention to stop Gary from quitting his day job, the wine starts flowing, the “team-building” exercises begin, and the questions get a little too real. What starts as friendly concern spirals into confessions, accusations, and revelations no one planned to serve with dinner.
Fast, sharp, and wickedly funny, ADVICE skewers friendship, marriage, and the danger of asking the wrong question at exactly the right time. Brent Askari’s witty new comedy is an uncomfortably relatable look at ambition, insecurity, and the chaos of trying to fix someone else’s life — and will have you howling with laughter.
“A lively and irreverent look at friendship, ambition and the messy fallout of giving (and getting) well-intentioned but ill-fated life-advice.”
“‘Advice’ is a powerful work of art that will linger in your thoughts for days after the curtain falls.”
SCHEDULE
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FRIDAY, JULY 31 - 7:30 PM (PREVIEW)
SATURDAY, AUGUST 1 - 7:30 PM (OPENING NIGHT)
SUNDAY, AUGUST 2 - 2:00 PM
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5 - 2:00 PM
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5 - 7:30 PM
THURSDAY, AUGUST 6 - 7:30 PM
FRIDAY, AUGUST 7 - 7:30 PM
SATURDAY, AUGUST 8 - 2:00 PM
SATURDAY, AUGUST 8 - 7:30 PM
SUNDAY, AUGUST 9 - 2:00 PM
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12 - 2:00 PM
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12 - 7:30 PM
THURSDAY, AUGUST 13 - 7:30 PM
FRIDAY, AUGUST 14 - 7:30 PM
SATURDAY, AUGUST 15 - 2:00 PM (CLOSING)
MEET THE CAST
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ABOUT THE CREATIVE TEAM
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Adrienne is an award-winning NYC-based director and choreographer and the Founding Artistic Director of Colt Coeur. Recent world premieres: Still (Sheen Center, Colt Coeur at DR2, NYC & Dorset Theatre Festival, VT), Finn by Chris Dimond, Michael Kooman and Chris Nee (Kennedy Center), Dodi & Diana by Kareem Fahmy (Colt Coeur at HERE), Afterwords, by Emily Kaczmarek, music & lyrics by Zoe Sarnak, choreographed by Ebony Williams (5th Avenue Theater, Heileman & Haver Award for Best New Musical), NY premiere of Eureka Day by Jonathan Spector (Colt Coeur), Other World, by Hunter Bell, Jeff Bowen & Ann McNamee, choreography by Karla Puno Garcia (Delaware Theatre Company, BroadwayWorld Award for Best New Musical), We Are Among Us by Stephen Belber (City Theater, Pittsburgh), Hatef**k, by Rehana Lew Mirza (WP/Colt Coeur), Joan by Stephen Belber (Colt Coeur), Downstairs by Theresa Rebeck starring Tyne and Tim Daly (Primary Stages), Dry Land by Ruby Rae Spiegel (Colt Coeur), Seven Minutes in Heaven by Steven Levenson (Colt Coeur). Currently developing work with Jaclyn Backhaus & Jonatha Brooke (Tempus). Associate Director of Dear Evan Hansen (OBC). Lucille Lortel Visionary Director Award, "25 Women to Watch on Broadway". AdrienneCampbellHolt.com.
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Joe Gery has worked extensively in theater with Caparelliotis Casting since 2014, as well as with Meredith Tucker Casting in film & television. His most recent theater credits include the Broadway productions of Good Night and Good Luck, Grey House, Ohio State Murders, Sam Gold's Macbeth, and The Minutes, as well as off-broadway productions at Signature Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, The Vineyard, and Ars Nova. Television credits include all three seasons of The White Lotus (HBO), Godfather of Harlem (EPIX), Ray Donovan (Showtime), and the final season of The Bold Type (Freeform).
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ADVISORY: TBA
RUNTIME: 90 minutes, no intermission
ADVICE is produced by Dorset Theatre Festival.
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Support for the 49th season is provided by Legacy Donors, the Rodgers Family Foundation, The James H. & Irene M. Hunter Charitable Trust, The Shubert Foundation, and the members of the Festival’s World Premiere Circle.
Advice was first produced as a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere by Florida Studio Theatre (Sarasota, FL), B Street Theatre (Sacramento, CA) and Florida Repertory Theatre (Fort Myers, FL). For more information, please visit nnpn.org. Advice was a Finalist in the 2024 New Comedies Festival at the B Street Theatre in Sacramento, CA. CEO/Executive Director Lyndsay Burch. Advice was part of Florida Studio Theatre’s New Play Festival.
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