Crowded Kitchen Players
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Crowded Kitchen Players was born in Pamela Wallace's kitchen in January 2000 and began with the production of Larry Gelbart's comedy "Sly Fox," produced at the Mauch Chunk Opera House in Jim Thorpe. For two years CKP produced such classic productions as "The Front Page," "Twentieth Century," and "A Christmas Carol." The next few years found CKP producing shows at various locations in Allentown and
03/14/2026
03/12/2026
OPENING NIGHT: "A Terrible Beauty" at The Ice House in Bethlehem
Through March 15
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“A Terrible Beauty”, our fourth play in the Irish saga of the past century is not a true story, in the sense that its characters are not meant to portray anyone who actually lived in Belfast in 1922, But, it is a faithful story in that everything that happens in this play is meant to recreate the mood, place, and time of what are called the “Belfast Pogroms”--- daily and savage attacks by British Loyalists on innocent Catholic families in order either to “see every Catholic floating facedown in the bay” or to drive all of them out of the north of Ireland by any political, economic, or physical means possible.
But it is true that these things happened. It’s true that innocent people suffered immeasurably at the hands of their neighbors. And it’s true that these kinds of things are still happening. With public support. Here. Right now.
“MacDonagh and MacBride
And Connolly and Pearse
Now and in time to be,
Wherever green is worn,
Are changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.”
William Butler Yeats, “Easte,r 1916”
03/11/2026
Dress rehearsal "A Terrible Beauty"
March 12-19 @ The Ice House
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