Know Theatre Tribe will bookend work by its resident playwright Kevin Barry during Cincinnati Fringe Festival.

Barry's first script, I Will Love You at 8 p.m. Next Wednesday is a one-act from 1994 that Know is partnering with Lanford Wilson's Poster of the Cosmos. Barry's latest is A Note on the Type, now in its world premiere run at Gabriel's Corner (Sycamore at Liberty) through May 22.

"I had this idea to more or less write a play with directors and actors," Barry says of Type. The director is Christine DeFrancesco, and the actors are Sunshine Cappelletti and Know artistic director Matthew Pyle.

"I wrote 75 percent of it, and then back in November we started getting together on Sundays for readings."

Set in the 15th century, just before the introduction of the printing press, Note is about the increasingly obsessive relationship between a nun and the traveling monk she hires to translate a rare manuscript fragment.

"I wanted to write a period piece and about technology," Barry says. "And I wanted a religious theme and sex." He laughs. "It was good enough for Cecil B. DeMille.

"I wouldn't want to work this way all the time," says Barry, "but I learned a lot about what actors and directors do. I learned that they have to make do a lot with what they're handed."

A Note on the Type plays at 8 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays. Know offers a double feature on Saturdays with Wednesday/Cosmos playing at 4 p.m. at Gabriel's Corner through May 22. Put the one-acts, smartly directed by Ed Cohen, on your list so you don't miss Jim Stump in Cosmos.

For reservations and information, call the theater at 300-5669.

Covedale sets season

Covedale Center for the Performing Arts has set its 2004-05 season: The King and I, Oct. 21-Nov. 7; A Christmas Carol, Dec. 2-19; Greater Tuna, Jan. 20-Feb. 6; Tapestry, Feb. 17-March 6; Jesus Christ Superstar, March 17-April 23.

A subscription including A Christmas Carol is $80; four-show package is $64. Single tickets go on sale in August. For more information, call the Covedale at 241-6550. The Covedale is located at 4990 Glenway Ave.

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