By Sheila Callaghan
Directed by Jenny McConnell Frederick
July 19 - August 16, 2009
Previews Begin July 16
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Samantha Blossom’s odyssey begins over breakfast when she discovers a letter from her husband’s lover. Reacting to the sting of her husband’s infidelity and from the pain of her son’s death, she embarks on a surreal journey in which she encounters a Manhattan she has never seen. Her life starts to spiral out of control and she becomes caught up in the wake of a punk-rock poet half her age. What begins as a chance encounter turns into obsession as she follows this young girl through the streets of her weird and wonderful city, ending in an underground sex club in the Meat Packing District where anything is possible.
This dark, hip and ultra-theatrical reimagining of James Joyce’s Ulysses reverses the genders of the main characters and updates the landscape to a mind-bending Manhattan. Sheila Callaghan’s distinctive style makes the mundane electric and turns conversation into poetry.
Washington DC has become a home for Sheila Callaghan’s work. WE ARE NOT THESE HANDS and CRUMBLE (LAY ME DOWN JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE) were both recently produced at Catalyst Theater, TUMOR was performed at last year’s Source Festival and FEVER/DREAM will premiere at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in June.
PRODUCED BY Jenny McConnell Frederick and Randy Baker
FEATURING Company Members Tim Getman and Grady Weatherford with Wyckham Avery, Rachel Beauregard, Val Fenton, Danny Gavigan and Lee Matthews
DESIGNED BY Company Member Matthew Frederick (Sound Designer)with Eric Grims (Set Designer), Frank Labovitz (Costume Designer), Andrew R. Cissna (Lighting Designer) and Becca Dieffenbach (Props Designer)
STAGE MANAGED BY Kyle Jean Fisher
WITH Casey Kaleba (Fight Choreographer), Emily Levin (Assistant Director), Leah Hamos (Dramaturg), Lauren Cucarola (Assistant Costume Designer), Kate Lucibella (Technical Director), Robert Brown (Master Electrician) and Trey Carnley (Master Carpenter)
The run begins with
three Pay-What-You-Can Previews
on July 16, July 17 and July 18, all at 830pm
Opens on Sunday, July 19 at 7pm
And continues through August 16
with shows on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 830pm
and on Sunday, August 9 at 230pm and Sunday, August 16 at 230pm
(FULL SEASON CALENDAR ON THE SEASON 9 HOMEPAGE)
The show performs in THE DEVINE THEATRE at Georgetown University’s Royden B. Davis, S.J. Performing Arts Center