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(A Man Enters)

Presented by Salt Lake Acting Company at Salt Lake Acting Company

November 2-December 11, 2011

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**After enjoying a four-week sold out run, Salt Lake Acting Company is happy to announce the extension of its World Premiere production of (A Man Enters) by Elaine Jarvik & Kate Jarvik Birch..

SLAC has added performances December 8th, 9th, and 10th @ 7:30 PM and December 11th @ 1:00 PM.**.

(a man enters) is a semi-autobiographical and a wildly whimsical comic odyssey about love and family - and what happens after.

Ben Fulton of the Salt Lake Tribune says: "(A Man Enters), penned by the mother-daughter team of Elaine Jarvik (a former newspaper reporter turned playwright) and Kate Jarvik Birch, does its damndest to dress its tale of family-cut-short in whimsy and fantasy. It succeeds. True to the nature of families themselves, however, the play can't help but pull you inexorably toward the center of human emotions that must be reckoned with."

The Deseret News says of (a man enters): "In the hands of five talented actors and under the watchful care of director Alexandra Harbold, the play reminds that not only our deepest joys but also our deepest sorrows are among those found within our own families."

(A Man Enters) started as Elaine & Kate's own personal catharsis. It was a way to bring to life something that could only happen in their imaginations - a way of seeing and interacting with a man who'd removed himself from their lives so many years before.
"After a while we had to let go of our own longings and eccentricities, and instead write the play that the characters needed." Elaine says, "Real life was a perfect jumping off point, but once we let go of reality, the play came to life."