A Behanding In Spokane by Martin McDonagh

In this darkly comical new work from the acclaimed playwright Martin McDonagh, the mysterious gun-toting Carmichael has been searching for his missing left hand for decades. Enter two bickering lovebirds with a hand to sell, and a hotel clerk with an aversion to gunfire, and soon life and death are up for grabs. Dark, profane and often hilariously funny, A Behanding in Spokane turns over American daily existence, exposing the obsessions, prejudices, madness, horrors, and above all, the absurdities that crawl beneath it.

Written by Martin McDonagh (author of The Pillowman, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, The Lonesome West, The Lieutenant of Inishmore  and The Cripple of Inishmaan), A Behanding in Spokane played on Broadway in 2010 featuring Cristopher Walken and Sam Rockwell. Gremlin Theatre is proud to present the regional premiere.

Cast:
David Tufford
Sara Marsh*
Brian J. Evans
Luverne Seifert*

* Member, Actor’s Equity Association

Staff:
Director: Matt Sciple
Technical Director: Carl Schoenborn
Producer: Peter Christian Hansen
Stage Manager: Sarah Bauer
Set & Lighting Design: Carl Schoenborn
Sound Design: Katharine Horowitz

Location:
Gremlin Theater

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Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello

A reality television show set in a home that alters its shape and size every day, The Maze begins another typical day of shooting when the house is suddenly invaded by an odd family of characters – who insist they aren’t people at all but actual characters sprung to life from the imagination of an author. In front of the cameras, television stars, and crew, they begin a life or death struggle to convince the production crew to complete their story.

Cast:

* Member, Actor’s Equity Association

Staff:
Director: Alan Berks
Technical Director: Carl Schoenborn
Producer: Peter Christian Hansen
Stage Manager:
Set & Lighting Design:
Sound Design:

Location:
Gremlin Theater

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The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds by Paul Zindel

The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds is about an unexpected and lovely mutation: how something beautiful and full of promise can emerge from even the most barren, afflicted soil. Quiet and painfully shy but with an intuitive gift for science, Tillie undertakes a gamma ray experiment with marigolds for her school amidst the wreck and ruin of her family life. The radiation in her own life comes from her vengeful and acerbic mother, her highly strung and convulsive older sister, and the chaos of something akin to a warped hospice program for elderly boarders being run out of their own home. Yet through it all, Tillie proves that sometimes radiation causes strange and beautiful mutations, totally unlike the original plants.

Paul Zindel received both the Pulitzer Prize and a New York Drama Critics’ Award for The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds. The play was also adapted for the screen, directed by Paul Newman and starred his wife Joan Woodward and daughter Nell Potts. Woodward won Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival for her performance.

Cast:
Jodi Kellogg
Caledonia Wilson
Eleonore Dendy
Donna Porfiri
Elise Sommers

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

Location:
Gremlin Theater

Photo Credit: Aaron Fenster