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	Know Switches Season Closer Stage Notes By Jackie Demaline Cincinnati Enquirer [Ohio] March 1, 2007 http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070301/ENT/703010304/1025/LIFE Know Theatre changed its season closer to the regional premiere of "After Ashley," which replaces world premiere "Vatican Falls" from April 19-May 12. "Vatican Falls," says Know artistic director Jason Bruffy, just wasn't ready. "It's an amazing piece," he says. "It has so much potential that we want to do this process right." That will include workshops this spring and probably a follow-up in September. Bruffy says "Vatican Falls," about sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, is more likely to show up in the 2008-09 season than next year. "After Ashley," which debuted at the 2004 Humana Festival of New American Plays, is a black comedy about American media's obsession with televised violence and its victims. Information: 513-300-5669. "Hamlet," with Chris Guthrie in the title role, continues through March 17. Reservations: 513-621-2787, www.knowtheatre.com. NKU student's work part of YES Festival For the first time, an entry by a Northern Kentucky University student will be part of NKU's biennial Year End Series (YES) Festival of New Plays, scheduled to run April 12-22. Brad Cupples' "The Chester County Automaton(s)" opens the festival. Cupples, who will graduate in May with a bachelor's of fine arts in playwriting, submitted "Automaton(s)," a comedy about science versus religion, anonymously. Another entry, "The Aaronsville Woman" by Stephen Spotswood of Washington, D.C., is about a forensic anthropologist who returns to her small Pennsylvania hometown to solve professional and personal mysteries when skeletal remains are discovered that are thought to be thousands of years old. "In the Wake of King Death" by Chuck Spoler of Pennsylvania explores a "what if" of history. In 1348, an alliance between England and Spain was dismantled when the daughter of King Edward III died of the plague en route to her wedding. But what would have happened had she lived? YES director Sandra Forman says the quality of writing, the richness of characters and originality of subject matter make this an exciting collection. "The quality of submission" - this year about 350 - "gets better and better, and that's exciting." Reservations and information: 859-572-5464.
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