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Breakdown
SHOW TBA
Details pending
1st reh: 7/19. 1st Preview: 8/20. Press/Opening Night: 8/25. Closes: 9/18
All roles cast, not seeking understudies
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THE PLOUGH AND THE STARS
By Sean O'Casey
Directed by Sean Holmes
1st preview: 9/25. Press Night: 9/28. Opens: 9/29. Closes: 10/9
*this is an international presentation, all roles are cast and we are not seeking understudies
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FINGERSMITH
By Alexa Junge
Based on the novel by Sarah Waters
Directed by Bill Rauch
1st reh: 11/1. Opens: 12/14. Holiday Schedule TBD. Closes: 1/8/17
Please note the doubling at the end of the list:
SUSAN TRINDER
(20) The protagonist of the play. Grew up in a den-of-thieves on in the dodgiest Borough of London. A skilled pickpocket. Devoted to Mrs. Sucksby who took her in an cared for her, Sue is hungry and ready to strike out on her own.
MAUD LILLY
(20) The heiress at the center of Sue’s plot. Kept away from the world by her controlling uncle, Maud is desperate to escape from Briar and find liberty in London.
RICHARD “GENTLEMAN” RIVERS
(30’s) A master con and expert in art forgery and “higher-class” crimes. Gentleman is partner to Sue a risky scheme of seduction and deceit.
MRS. GRACE SUCKSBY
(50’s-60’s) Baby-farmer and cunning businesswoman. Mrs. Sucksby raised and favored Sue in her thieves’ den on Lant Street-- teaching Sue to pick pockets, protecting her from the neighborhood boys and prizing Sue like a jewel above all others.
CHRISTOPHER LILLY
60’s) Maud’s uncle who has raised her to be his secretary locked up in a mansion “Briar” and keeps her for his secretary. In love with his dead sister, Marianne.
MARIANNE LILLY
(20’s-30’s) Maud’s mother. Found to be pregnant by a stable boy at her father’s estate then committed by her father and brother Chris Lilly to a lunatic asylum. A spirited woman ahead of her time.
YOUNG SUE/YOUNG MAUD
Child versions of both Sue and Maud. Must be quite different for each portrayal.
LANT STREET
MR. IBBS
(50’s) A crooked pawn-seller and neighborhood fence. Mr. Ibbs shares his shop (and sometimes his bed) with Mrs. Sucksby who’s been his “partner in crime” since before Sue was born.
DAINTY WARREN
(20’s) A lodger at Lant Street, a small-time thief and the closest thing Sue has to a best friend. The long-suffering girlfriend of John Vroom.
JOHN VROOM
(20’s) A misbegotten orphan and petty thief. Bitter about Sue’s preferential treatment. Ill-tempered and rude; but only because he’s been treated so poorly.
MRS. GRIGGS
(40’s) Onlooker at hanging.
MR. GRIGGS
Onlooker at hanging.
POLICEMEN
Investigate Gentleman’s murder.
BRIAR
MRS. STILES
(50’s) Housekeeper at Briar for over forty years. Attended to Marianne Lilly, and then (bitterly) to Maud.
MR. WAY
(50’s) Butler at Briar for Marianne and then Maud’s time there. Alcoholic father to Charles the knife-boy.
MR. INKER
(60’s) Carriage man at Briar.
MARGARET
(20’s) Parlor maid at Briar. Reports to Mrs. Stiles.
COOK
(50’s) Report to Mrs. Stiles.
CHARLES WAY
(14) Knife boy at Briar who becomes enamored with Gentleman.
MR. HAWTREY
(50’s) Publisher, London book-store owner. Colleague to Chris Lilly. Kind and respectful to Maud.
MR. HUSS
(50’s) “Gentleman” collector of books. Comes to hear Maud read from rare texts. Lascivious.
AGNES
(20’s) Maud’s maid who is seduced by Gentleman and then sent away in order to make a post available for Sue.
VICAR
(60’s) Drunken clergyman who marries Gentleman and Maud on the night of their elopement.
MRS. CREAM
(50’s) Owner of the cottage where Gentleman stays with Maud and Sue after eloping with Maud. Aunt to Charles.
ST. JOHN’S ASYLUM
SPIKEY NURSE
(30’s – 40’s) Tended to Maud as a child. Had smothering soft-spot for Maud.
STOUT NURSE
(40’s) Meaner of two nurses, also possessive of Maud.
OLD LUNATIC
Terrifying to Young Maud.
RENBRIDGE ASYLUM
DR. CHRISTIE
Director of Lunatic Asylum. Ambitious and scientifically out of date.
NURSE SPILLER
Miserable lifer with no patience and a sadistic streak toward her charges. Especially peeved by Sue’s “uppity” nature.
MR. KENT
Orderly who reports to Nurse Spiller.
MRS. FELL
Lonely lunatic spinster.
BETTY
Developmentally disabled inmate exploited by Nurse Spiller to do her personal bidding. Enjoys her special status.
Doubling for FINGERSMITH:
Women:
Sue Trinder
Maud Lilly
Mrs. Sucksby/Old Lunatic
Flora/Agnes/Marianne Lilly
Dainty/Margaret/Nurse Spikey/Betty
Mrs. Stiles/Nurse Spiller/Prison Matron
Cook/Mrs. Cream/Nurse Stout/Miss Wilson
Young Sue/Young Maud (youth)
Men:
Richard “Gentleman” Rivers
Christopher Lilly
John Vroom
Charles Way (youth)
Mr. Ibbs/Mr. Inker/Vicar/Mr. Huss
Mr. Way/Dr. Christie/Mr. Hawtrey
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TRANS SCRIPTS
Writer: Paul Lucas
Director: Jo Bonney
1st reh: 12/27. 1st Preview: 1/19/17. Press/Opening: 1/26. Closes: 2/5
Eden:
White Intersex Female, 30s/40s, British. Assigned male at birth, her history was concealed from her by her parents. She has a history of both abused and self-harm. Opinionated, mercurial, and funny, she is a substance abuser and a lesbian. Not comfortable presenting as hyper-feminine, she is extremely androgynous.
Josephine:
White Australian Trans Female, mid-50s, lived as a hyper-masculine man for 50 years. Intelligent, emotionally fragile, self-effacing, nervous, depressed, warm. Her dream is to become a “normal girl and disappear into society. She does not feel entitled to take up space, or even the air in the room.
Luna:
African American and Latina Trans Female, 28. Orphaned at 9, she was raised in a series of group homes before transitioning at 17. Outrageous, warm, and funny, she is an expert “code-switcher,” drawing on her extensive vocabulary one minute and on her street cred the next.
Sandra:
White Trans Female, 65. A former garage mechanic with the soul of a French poet, Sandra underwent a well- supervised, expensive transition at 40. Introspective and measured, her soothing, yet artificial dialect lays like a beautiful shawl draped over the tent poles of a Staten Island accent.
Tatiana:
White Trans Female, late 40s/early 50s, transitioned in her 20s. She is simultaneously arch and endearing, like Julie Newmar as Catwoman. Funny, smart, ribald, and frank, she is somewhat skeptical of the political stance of the younger generation of trans women.
Violet:
British gynecologist, living in Australia, 72. She presented as male her entire life in order to have the career she wanted, transitioning at 68. She is loud, funny and pompous. Her experience in the field makes her simultaneously insightful and detached.
Zakia:
African American Trans Female, 30s, began her transition at 21. Social Worker by day and Beauty Pageant Contestant/ Drag Performer by night. Although glamorous, funny, and deeply religious, she doesn’t take any shit. While her choice of words sometimes belies her intelligence, she is a thoughtful, accomplished woman who stands up for herself in a direct way.
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NIGHT OF THE IGUANA
By Tennessee Williams
Directed by Michael Wilson
1st reh: 1/17/17. Opens: 2/23. Closes: 3/18.
Maxine Faulk
mid 40s, female (offered)
Pedro
20, male
Pancho
20, male
Reverend Lawrence Shannon
mid 30s, male (offered)
Hank
unspecified age, male
Herr Fahrenkopf
father of Fahrenkopf family
Frau Fahrenkopf
mother of Fahrenkopf
Hilda
daughter of Fahrenkopf family
Wolfgang
son of Fahrenkopf family
Judith Fellows
mid 40s, female
Charlotte Goodall
teenager, female
Jonathan Coffin
older man, 80’s-90’s
Hannah Jelkes
30s-40s, female (offered)
Jake Latta
male
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ARRABAL
By John Weidman
Directed by Sergio Trujillo
Choreography by Sergio Trujillo and Julio Zurita
1st reh: 4/11. Opens: 5/18. Closes: 6/11
breakdown forthcoming
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