Laughing Stock
Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 PM: May 1, 2, 8, 9, 15, and 16, 2009.
Sunday Matinee at 2:30 PM: May 10, 2009.
Single ticket prices: $18 (adults, all performances [Friday, Saturday, Sunday]), $15 (senior citizens and students, all performances).
The Saturday, May 9 performance will be sign interpreted for the deaf and hearing impaired.
A “virtuoso farce” and truly affectionate look at what genuinely holds a theatre company together. The Playhouse, a rustic New England summer theatre, opens its season of Dracula, Charley’s Aunt, and Hamlet—and comic mayhem ensues, including misplaced cues, forgotten lines, wrong entrances, giant mosquitoes, small budgets and eccentric egos… all leading up to the elation of a great play, well told, and the nostalgic closing of the season. Satire becomes hilarity as you meet the (new-age) ingenue, the leading man (who might just choose law school instead), the experienced (forgetful) veterans, the jaded (inflated!) professional, the exhausted interns, the stage manager with a delicious cynical wit, the beleaguered overworked designer, and of course the director, whose heart and soul is the center of the dysfunctional family created anew each summer. A love letter to the theatre world!
Directed by Karen Schlumpf, produced by Bruce Lipin.
Auditions were held February 27 and 28.
Laughing Stock is cast
RCP announces the cast of Laughing Stock:
- Gordon Page: Joe Richardson
- Jack Morris: Stephen Smith
- Susannah Huntsmen: Carolyn Sagatov
- Mary Pierre: Arianné Warner
- Tyler Taylor: Kevin Walker
- Vernon Volker: Roscoe Lindsey
- Richfield Hawksley: Jim Bumgardner
- Daisy Coates: Mary Suib
- Craig Conlin: Jerry Morse
- Sarah McKay: Adrienne Showker
- Henry Mills: Stuart Fischer
- Karma Schneider: Natasha Parnian
- Braun Oakes: Gino Tassara
- Ianna Milliken: Katie Bull
All performances are held at the Reston Community Center CenterStage Theatre.
Produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
