drama
Joined at the Head
by Catherine Butterfield
directed by abbey fera
Technical director luke kerschbaum
uil oap
Maggie Mulroney is on a promotional tour for her novel JOINED AT THE HEAD when she gets an invitation to visit with her old high school flame, Jim, and his wife (also named Maggy) who is dying of cancer. The two women strike up an immediate friendship notwithstanding the total disparity in their characters: Maggie the novelist is intensely self-examining and analytical while Maggy, even in the throes of her illness, retains a warm and giving response to the world and others. Maggie acts as the play’s narrator from time to time, commenting upon the process of her writing while also shrewdly dissecting her relationship to her former boyfriend’s wife. As Maggy’s illness becomes the central question in all their lives, Jim and Maggie begin to confront their own assumptions about mortality, ambition and what it means to make a truly lasting impression in this world. In this riveting portrait of self-awakening, art and life come fluidly to interact as Maggie’s instinct for the fictitious collides with a newfound yearning to relate to life with the immediacy of her newest, closest friend.
musical
Fiddler on the Roof
by Joseph Stein
directed by abbey fera and matthew logan
technical directors: luke kerschbaum and
angela washenfelder
january 18-22 2018
Fiddler on the Roof is a musical set in the Pale of Settlement of Imperial Russia in 1905. It is based on Tevye and his Daughters (or Tevye the Dairyman) and other tales by Sholem Aleichem. The story centers on Tevye, the father of five daughters, and his attempts to maintain his Jewish religious and cultural traditions as outside influences encroach upon the family's lives. He must cope both with the strong-willed actions of his three older daughters, who wish to marry for love – each one's choice of a husband moves further away from the customs of his faith – and with the edict of the Tsar that evicts the Jews from their village.
drama
ANATOMY OF GRAY
by jim leonard
directed by abbey fera
Technical director luke kerschbaum
october 12-14 2017
When June's father dies, she prays for a healer to come to the small town of Gray, so that no one will ever suffer again; the next thing she knows, there's a tornado, and a man in a balloon blows into town claiming to be a doctor. At first, the new doctor cures anything and everything, but soon the town's preacher takes ill with a mysterious plague. And then the plague begins to spread. Set in Indiana during the late 1800's, Anatomy of Gray deals with death, loss, love, and healing in a unique coming-of-age story.