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2007-2008 Season
Fatboy - Weapons of Mass Impact - Not A Game For Boys
Fatboy
By John Clancy
Directed by ensemble member Guy Van Swearingen. Featuring Steve Pickering and ensemble members Jennifer Engstrom and Doug Vickers. Additional cast members include John Luzar and Mark Vallarta.
PREVIEWS January 18,19, 20 at 8:00pm
January 21st to March 2, 2007
A modern descendant of Alfred Jarry’s famous Ubu Roi, the tyrannical Fatboy eats everything in sight, until the world he consumes is bereft of both justice and pancakes. Meanwhile his wife, Fudgie, chases carnal satisfaction; serving as a burlesque Judy to Fatboy’s Punch. For anyone who has ever felt a bit marginalized by the current state of civilization, Fatboy is your kind of satire and A Red Orchid’s fearless ensemble is just the team to dish it up.
Fatboy examines the destructive forces of blind greed and mindless consumption with a crass comedic panache and questions how a charismatic yet vulgar egomaniac can rise from obscurity to rule an apathetic society. The winner of a 2004 Edinburgh Fringe First award, this comically cautionary work from John Clancy captures the elephant in the china shop of society and names him Fatboy.
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Weapons of Mass Impact
By Brett Neveu
A World Premiere
Director Edward Sobel
Featuring Red Orchid ensemble members Jennifer Engstrom as Gina, Mierka Girten as Sylvia, and Kirsten Fitzgerald as Kate. The cast also features Usman Ally as Man and Tom McElroy as Another Man.
PREVIEWS OCT. 19 and 20 at 8:00 p.m.; OCT. 21 at 6:00 p.m.
OCTOBER 22ND to December 2, 2007
Ensemble member Brett Neveu kicks off A Red Orchid Theatre’s 15th anniversary season with the world premiere of his newest drama, Weapon of Mass Impact, on Monday, October 22nd. The play serves as the second installment of a dramatic trilogy that began with TimeLine Theatre Company’s critically-acclaimed production of Harmless last January.
“Weapon of Mass Impact examines both the effects of terrorism from unseen malicious evildoer types as well as the mundane routine common place terrorism that goes on daily in our apathetic society,” says artistic director and ensemble member Guy Van Swearingen. “Infusing the dramatic with the everyday, Brett has imagined an amazing world where the professional boundaries between the morality of fair play and personal space are skewed.”
Weapon of Mass Impact is ensemble member Brett Neveu’s fifth play to premiere at A Red Orchid Theatre, following Eric LaRue (2002), 4 Murders (2005), The Earl (2006), and The Meek (2007). His other works (including Harmless, American Dead, Heritage, and the go) received productions by American Theatre Company, Terrapin Theatre Company, Stage Left Theatre, Chicago Dramatists, The Goodman Theatre, and the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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Not
A Game for Boys
by Simon Block
U.S. PREMIERE!
Directed by Robin Witt
Featuring Nigel Patterson, Dan Rivkin and Bob Turton
Previews May
9, 10 and 11th at 8pm
Opens Monday, May 12th at 7pm
Closing June 22nd
Runs Thursday, Friday & Saturday at 8pm,
Sundays at 7pm
Matinee ONLY on June 1st at 3pm
Ping Pong is a game like no other. It demands
acute dexterity, lightening quick reflexes,
and nerves of steel. But nerves are fraying
among a team of three London cabbies as they
face elimination from their elite league of
master players. Can the team captain hold his
comrades together to rise above and reach the
top this season, or will their bond disintegrate
in the face of buried tensions boiling to the
surface? This razor sharp comedy in its U.S.
Premiere investigates the male psyche at its
competitive worst.
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