A Lovely Sunday by Tennessee Williams

This rarely produced and surprisingly funny play focuses on one morning and one encounter between four women struggling for a sense of identity and belonging. Set in St. Louis in the mid-1930s, A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur moves skillfully between the near-farcical and tragicomic, as Williams explores in miniature many of the themes of his best-known plays. With great tenderness and a healthy dose of comic irony, A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeurgrapples with the meaning of loneliness and the need for human connection, as well as the compromises one must make to get through ‘the long run of life’.

Gremlin Theatre is setting this production in the up close and incredibly intimate setting of an actual house, complete with bedrooms, kitchen and bathroom. With seating for just 40, patrons will be right in the midst of these characters’ lives as the story unfolds.

After its St. Paul run this spring, A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur will travel in September to Massachusetts to participate in the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival where it will once again take up intimate quarters in the apartment loft of a barn.

Cast:
Suzanne Warmanen
Sara Richardson
Jane Froiland
Noe Tallen

Staff:
Director: Jef Hall-Flavin
Technical Director: Carl Schoenborn
Producer: Peter Christian Hansen
Stage Manager: Sarah Bauer
Set & Lighting Design: Carl Schoenborn
Sound Design: Katharine Horowitz

Location:
Open Eye Figure Theatre

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Rocket to the Moon by Clifford Odets

Presented in partnership with the Hennepin Theatre Trust at the New Century Theatre in Minneapolis

Clifford Odets is one of the great American playwrights, a powerful and distinct voice who revolutionized American theatre through his work with the Group Theater in New York in the 1930s.  Rocket to the Moon is Odets’ small cast powerhouse of a play. A dentist finds his business and marriage failing when he comes suddenly face to face with his first – and no doubt last – shot at real happiness, as a love affair with a young dental assistant threatens to develop over the course of a long, hot summer in New York, 1938. From this simple premise, Rocket to the Moon carves out an unusual story about lives at their crossroads and the desire to want more out of our very existence.

In partnership with the Hennepin Theatre Trust, Gremlin Theatre is re-introducing this great American playwright to Twin Cities audiences through Rocket to the Moon while reconfiguring the intimate setting of the New Century Theatre in Downtown Minneapolis.

Featuring:
David Coral
Jane Froiland
Peter Christian Hansen
Craig Johnson
Jason Rojas
Daisy Macklin Skarning
Edwin Strout

Staff:
Director: Ellen Fenster
Technical Director: Carl Schoenborn
Producer: Peter Christian Hansen
Stage Manager: Sarah Bauer
Set & Lighting Design: Carl Schoenborn
Sound Design: Montana Johnson

Location:
New Century Theatre

Photos: (Click picture for larger version)
Photo Credit: Aaron Fenster