By José Rivera
Directed by Catherine Tripp
June 25 - July 26, 2009
DIGITAL PROGRAM AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE
(after the youtube "behind the scenes" video)
"When a woman offers two strangers $20,000 to dine with her for an evening, there's naturally got to be a catch. But in Jose Rivera's Brainpeople, being given a thoughtful, intimate staging by Rorschach Theatre Company, none of the cliche scenarios and hypotheticals that may have popped into the mind apply to what's about to happen to this trio of women from disparate, if equally desperate backgrounds."
--DCist
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Director Catherine Tripp has accomplished a vivid work - disorderly and feverish but making it seem quite plausible. Here is an unconventional journey within the Latin magical realism genre toward an unexpectedly optimistic final chronicle of three women’s search for love and trust.
--Potomac Stages
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"...dense, intellectually aggressive..."
--Washington Post
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...the story comes together marvelously and each actress rises to the occasion.
--DCTheatre Scene
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A wealthy woman invites two strangers to join her in a strange feast commemorating the death of her parents. Mayannah has done this every year but her dark purpose remains unclear. All that will change tonight when two damaged souls find their way to her table. Taking place in a not-so-distant future, the sounds of a war-torn Los Angeles fill the air. Tensions rise, true colors are revealed and the main course is not the only thing with claws.
With BRAINPEOPLE, José Rivera returns to the mysticism and gritty emotional reality of REFERENCES TO SALVADOR DALI MAKE ME HOT, the Helen Hayes-nominated show produced to great acclaim by Rorschach Theatre in Season 7.
PRODUCED BY Jenny McConnell Frederick and Randy Baker
FEATURING Regina Aquino, Monalisa Arias and Amanda Thickpenny
DESIGNED BY Justine Light (Set Designer), Lynly Saunders (Costume Designer), Sam Kitchel (Lighting Designer) and Neil McFadden (Sound Design)
STAGE MANAGED BY Alex Aki and John Newman(Asst. Stage Manager)
WITH Elissa Goetschius (Dramaturg),
Kate Lucibella (Technical Director) and Tracy Wertheimer (Asst. Lighting Designer)
SEASON 9 is sponsored in part by generous contributions from The Dobranski Foundation and Pete Miller & Sara Cormeny.
The show performs in THE DAVIS LAB THEATRE at Georgetown University’s Royden B. Davis, S.J. Performing Arts Center
PHOTO: Regina Aquino by C. Stanley Photography
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