by Jean Giraudoux, adapted by Maurice Valency
Directed by Chris Howard
Oct 12-14 & 17-21, 2018
Fri & Sat @ 8:00 PM / Wed & Thu @ 7:30 PM / Sun @ 2:30 PM
The story takes place in Paris, “a little before noon in the Spring of next year”. Act 1 is set in a sidewalk café where the waitress, assorted customers, a ragman, a street musician, a juggler, a deaf child and peddlers mingle with a Corporation President, a Baron, a prospector and a broker. The business people are intent on bombing the office of the City Planner and drilling for oil throughout Paris. Act 2 takes place in the ancient cellar of Countess Aurelia-the Madwoman. She gathers her friends together for tea and a mock trial to save Paris from destruction. Her first step is to ask the sewer man for the secret of the moving stone.
FEATURING (in order of appearance)
Deaf Child – Macy Williams
Street Musician – David Barnert
Irma the Waitress – Siobhan Shea
Ragpicker – Fred Sirois
Prospector (Adolphe Bertaut 3) – Robert Hegeman
Little Boy – Kaleb Bermudez
Little Boy’s Papa (Oil Man 4) – Matt Bermudez
Little Girl – Amelia Hughes
Little Girl’s Mama (2nd Press Agent) – Melissa Hughes
Little Man (Sewer Man, Oil Man 3) – John Quinan
The President – Robin MacDuffie
The Baron (Oil man 1, Adolphe Bertaut 1) – Steven Leifer
The Broker (1st Press Agent) – Alan Angelo
The Countess Aurelia- Madwoman of Chaillot – Lucy Breyer
Juggler (3rd Press Agent) – Daniel Weiner
Policeman (Oil Man 2, Adolphe Bertaut 2) – Scott Colehamer
Pierre – Ryan Gillotti
Countess Constance – Melissa Brown
Countess Gabrielle – Christine Vermilyea
Countess Josephine – Susan Katz