BCKSEET Productions mounts Pink Floyd's legendary concert The Wall with the exclusive permission of its creators, Roger Waters and David Gilmour, for its most ambitious season fundraiser yet. The bar will open one hour prior to the performance for a silent auction and raffle. All proceeds will benefit BCKSEET Productions' 2007/2008 OMEGA Season: Three Tall Women, The Eight: Reindeer Monologues, and Death and the Maiden.

The event will be held one night only on Saturday, September 15, 2007 at 8PM . The performance of The Wall will take place at the Society Hill Playhouse's Mainstage, located at 507 S. 8th Street in Philadelphia. Tickets are $30 for the concert. Tickets are available at the Society Hill Playhouse box office at 215.923.0210.

A concept album released by Pink Floyd in 1979, The Wall follows the demise of a young rockstar, Pink, into emotional and psychological ruin. With such groundbreaking songs as "Comfortably Numb," "Another Brick in the Wall," and "Hey You," The Wall blurs the lines between theatre and rock concert, concept album and performance phenomenon. Made into a film in 1982 directed by Alan Parker, The Wall was also notably mounted in 1990 to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall and as a fundraiser for World War Memorial Fund for Disaster Relief. In December 2003, Rolling Stone editors named the album among the top 100 of all time.

From its release in 1979, critics have hailed The Wall as a unique and significant musical contribution:

"[The Wall is] Pink Floyd's most elaborately theatrical album" - Rolling Stone Magazine, 12.11.03

"Pink Floyd's twelfth album, The Wall, is the most startling rhetorical achievement in the group's singular, thirteen-year career." - Kurt Loder, Rolling Stone Magazine, 2.7.80

"Rock-star hubris has never been more electrifying." - Rolling Stone Magazine, 12.11.03

As a closer to their Fringe run of Hung on a Blonde Ponytail, Hung actors G DeCandia and Gregg Pica will join the cast of The Wall. In addition to these two Fringe favorites, BCKSEET's Season Fundraiser features performances by Craig Faulkner, Adrienne Maitland, Kate Brennan, Oscar Dubón, Joe Horak, Chris Butterfield, Jeff Wuollet, John Glaubitz and Tommy O'Malley. A team of Philadelphia and New England talents will work together on this mammoth event. Faulkner and O'Malley join the cast from Seacoast Repertory Theatre where they have performed The Wall for the past three years.

ABOUT BCKSEET PRODUCTIONS
Founded in 2000 at Emerson College in Boston, BCKSEET Productions burst onto the Philadelphia theatre scene three years ago as resident theatre company of the Red Room at the historic Society Hill Playhouse. An active member of the Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia, BCKSEET has participated in the Philly Fringe/Live Arts Festival, Free Night of Theatre, and SPARK Showcase Festival. BCKSEET continually strives to "entertain, educate and enlighten" its audiences with exciting world premieres and innovative explorations of classic works.

ABOUT SOCIETY HILL PLAYHOUSE
The Society Hill Playhouse has been a pioneering force in Philadelphia's theatre community since its inception in 1960. The theatre is housed in the historic David Garrick Hall. As Philadelphia's first professionally operated theater to bring both American and European premieres to the area, Society Hill Playhouse's has laid the groundwork for younger theatres throughout the Delaware Valley. During its forty-seven year history, Society Hill Playhouse has produced hundreds of area premieres on its Main Stage: from Brecht/Weill's Threepenny Opera in 1962 to Rachel Wyatt's Crackpot in 1996. The second stage "Red Room" opened in 1986 with William Gibson's Handy Dandy. Its premieres include Manual Puig's political drama Kiss of the Spider Woman in 1987 and Christopher Durang's Laughing Wild in 1988. Long-running "popular theatre" pieces include Nunsense and Menopause the Musical.