Photo Flash: Sneak Peek at Hallie Martenson, Sophia Barrett & Meghan Winch in Villanova Theatre's BIG LOVE

Villanova Theatre is thrilled to present Charles L. Mee's intensely theatrical Big Love, based on The Suppliant Women by Aeschylus, directed by Harriet Power, and on stage November 11 - 23, 2014. Audiences are cordially invited to attend this wild wedding of mythic proportions - but will all 50 couples make it down the aisle? Check out a first look below!

Villanova brings Mee's magical mayhem to life with the help of a talented team of award-winning designers: Sarah Sanford (Movement/Choreography), Daniel Boylen (Scenic Design), Rosemarie McKelvey (Costume Design), Jerold Forsyth (Lighting Design), John Stovicek (Sound Design), and Alex Cordaro (Fight Choreographer), with additional support from Neill Hartley (Dialect Coach) and Jill Jacobs (Dramaturg). The design team creates a world as fanciful, elegant, and outrageous as Mee's script. Flight suits peel away to tuxedos, slashed wedding dresses disintegrate into undergarments, trees grow from pianos, ladders descend from the heavens, and enormous works of art - ancient and modern - hover above the action.

Power directs a huge and hugely talented cast of 20 including second-year acting scholar Mitchell Bloom, Hallie Martenson, Meghan Winch, Sophia Barrett, Jim Hawkins, Julia Salvo, Samantha Thompson, John K. Baxter, and John Hala. They are joined by first-year acting scholars Kyle Fennie and Stephen Matthew Tornetta, Zachary Shery, Meg Trelease, Megan Rose, Elise D'Avella, Alix Rosenfeld, Christopher Sun, and Villanova undergraduates Jaclyn Siegel and Luke Hensley. Alumnus (and former Brian Morgan Award winner) Ahren Potratz returns to the Villanova stage as a guest artist. Actors appearing in the six main roles (Bloom, Martenson, Winch, Barrett, Fennie, and Shery) have been participating in physical and improvisational theatre workshops with director Harriet Power and movement coach Sarah Sanford (of Pig Iron Theatre Company) for more than a month to ready their bodies for the onslaught of performances.

Dr. James J. Christy, Barrymore Award-winning director, Professor Emeritus and former Chair of Villanova's Theatre Department will join the director, cast, and crew for Speaker's Night immediately following the November 20th performance (see bio information below).

Big Love runs at Villanova Theatre from November 11- 23, 2014. Villanova Theatre is located on the Villanova University campus in Vasey Hall (at Lancaster & Ithan Aves.). Performances will be held Tuesdays - Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. Tickets run $21-$25, with discounts available for seniors, students, M.A. in Theatre alumni, and groups. Tickets may be purchased at the Villanova Theatre Box Office (M-S, 12 -5 p.m.) in person, by phone: (610) 519-7474, or online at www.villanovatheatre.org.

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