Photo Flash: First Look at City Lit's Production of J.B.
J.B., the Pulitzer Prize and Best Play Tony Award®-winner by the American playwright and poet Archibald MacLeish, takes place in a corner of an enormous circus tent, where two vendors prepare to perform a play based on the Book of Job. One vendor, Nickles (meant to signify the devil, who is sometimes called "Old Nick"), will play the Devil. The other vendor, Zuss ("Zeus"), will play God. The two choose J.B., a wealthy banker, to play their Job. City Lit's production is directed by Brian Pastor and will be performed by an ensemble of nine women who take all twenty-three roles of men, women, and children in the play's cast of characters.
Pastor's cast includes Morgan McCabe (Nickles/1st Civil Defense Officer), Elaine Carlson (Mr. Zuss/2nd CDO), Stephanie Monday (J.B.), Judy Lea Steele (Sarah), Shariba Rivers (David/1st Reporter/Murphy/Eliphaz), Barbara Roeder Harris (Mary/1st Soldier/Police Officer 1/Adams), Susie Griffith (Jonathan/2nd Soldier/Police Officer 2/Lesure), Rainee Denham (Ruth/Girl/Jolly/Bildad), Marssie Mencotti (Rebecca/2nd Reporter/Botticelli/Zophar).
The J.B. production team is Kaitlyn Grissom (Set Designer), Jessica Fialko (Lighting Designer), Daniel Carlyon (Sound Designer and Composer), Alaina Moore (Costume Designer), David Knezz (Mask Designer), Arielle Valene (Properties Designer), Anne Wrider (Assistant Director), Alexa Berkowitz (Stage Manager), and Hazel Flowers-McCabe (Production Manager).
J.B. will be performed at City Lit Theater, 1020 W. Bryn Mawr Avenue, on the second floor of the historic Edgewater Presbyterian Church, from October 27- December 10, 2017. Tickets are on sale now at www.citylit.org or 773-293-3682.
Left to right: Morgan McCabe, Elaine Carlson
Left to right: Rainee Denham, Judy Lea Steele, Susie Griffith, Barbara Roeder Harris
Left to right: Rainee Denham, Shariba Rivers
Pictured above, L-R: Judy Lea Steele (foreground), Barbara Roeder Harris, Elaine Carlson, Stephanie Monday (background, left to right).
Left to right: Marssie Mencotti (the lower case m is correct in her first name), Barbara Roeder Harris, Shariba Rivers, Susie Griffith, Rainee Denham
Foreground: Stephanie Monday. Background, left to right: Marssie Mencotti (the lower case m is correct in her first name), Elaine Carlson, Shariba Rivers, Barbara Roeder Harris, Susie Griffith, Rainee Denham
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