WRITTEN & PERFORMED BY KAREN ETEROVICH

Columbia College will present Cheer from Chawton: A Jane Austen Family Theatrical performed by New York actress, Karen Eterovich, on Thursday, September 27, and Friday, September 28, at 7:30 pm in the Cottingham Theatre on the Columbia College campus.  Eterovich earned her master of fine arts degree in acting from the University of South Carolina, where Columbia audiences will remember her as Alma in USC Summer Repertory Theatre’s production of Summer and Smoke by Tennessee Williams.

General Admission $10     
Students and Senior Citizens $5    
Columbia College students, faculty, and staff FREE with ID
Box Office opens September 26, 2–5 p.m.
Call 786-3850 to reserve or purchase tickets. 

Eterovich also wrote the play which is based on the life of the legendary novelist Jane Austen and highlights Austen’s contributions to the world of literature, her relationship with her family and her adventures as a “flirtatious butterfly” in rural England.
She has performed Cheer from Chawton at the renowned Players Club in New York City and at the Jane Austen Festival in Bath, England, where Sue Hughes, editor of Regency magazine, proclaimed it “the hit of the festival” on BBC Radio Scotland.  In the November issue of Jane Austen’s Regency World, Ms Hughes also said, “The play’s premise is an ingenious one. It was difficult to see when the applause was going to end…” and she called the performance “exciting and exuberant…”
Because of Cheer from Chawton and her other play, Love Arm’d, Aphra Behn & Her Pen, Eterovich has been in constant demand as both a lecturer and performer on the college circuit.  Eterovich created the piece after performing in a play about Jane Austen, and finding herself fascinated by the writer.  Cynthia Kane, writer, documentary producer and consultant at the Sundance Channel commenting on the play said, “Karen’s performance as Jane Austen was sublime …! Very exciting! I went home and dug out my complete anthology of Jane Austen to reread after spending an evening in her lovely, witty company!”
Praise for the play and Eterovich has been enthusiastic and unanimous.  Dr. Amy Smith of the University of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif., has described Cheer from Chawton: “The ?home theatrical’ conception is the perfect way for Karen Eterovich to frame her lively performance and entertaining script. This play gives the audience a wonderful (and interactive!) overview of the best of Austen's works—from familiar, beloved dialogue from Pride and Prejudice to hilarious selections from the juvenilia and touching portions from her personal letters, as well. Her multiple, well-distinguished characterizations make this show truly engaging.”
Jane Austen is considered one of our greatest writers in English; of such superior quickness of wit and intuition that nearly two centuries after her death, she has never been surpassed.
This performance is sponsored by Columbia College. 

For further information please contact:
 
Sara Nalley
Department of Communication & Theatre
Columbia College
Cottingham Theatre, Room 104
Columbia, SC  29203
TEL:  803-786-3682
FAX:  803-786-3798
E-mail: snalley@colacoll.edu

John Maguire
Love Arm’d Productions
Times Square Station, P.O. Box 2668
New York, NY  10108
TEL: 201-790-3374
E-mail: lovearmd@verizon.net
WEB: http://www.lovearmd.com