by Victor Lodato
Directed by Dorothy Neumann
April 2009
Under a sunless, frozen sky, a middle-aged schizophrenic calls her dyspeptic mother from a pay phone a block from the mother’s home. In a bedroom in a comfortable home, father is dead, mother is absent, and a blackhearted young man is planning to do unspeakable things to his little brother. Along the stygian river that runs through town, a massive roughhewn dockworker cries out for the love he cannot find and couldn’t handle if he did find it.
Cast
Libby Amy McWilliams
Gert Rosemary Regan
Richard Ben Kingsland
Gregory William Beech
Jack Richard Pelzman
Production Team
Director Dorothy Neumann
Stage Manager Juely Siegel
Fight Coreographer Jim Zidar
Scenic Designer Klyph Sanford
Lighting Designer Klyph Sanford
Costume Designer Tessa Grippaudo
Sound Designer Veronika Vorel
Properties Designer Liz Johnson
Press
What They Say
“The chemistry between McWilliams and Beech is impossible to deny…”
“Neumann’s production appropriately leaves the specifics of Lodato’s dystopia to the characters’ words and the audiences’ imaginations…”
“The superb cast fills this production with dramatic electricity. Libby, even when she is not afflicted with her hallucinations, is a simple soul who is easily defeated by life.”
2010 Helen Hayes Awards
Nominee
- Charles McArthur Award for New Play or Musical