Written by William Inge

Directed by Donna Stobie

Set in the cramped, cluttered Midwestern house of Lola and Doc Delaney, the plot centers on how their life is disrupted by the presence of a boarder named Marie, a college art student with a strong lustful appetite.  Overweight and slovenly, the housebound middle-aged Lola engages in mild flirtations with the milkman and mailman, like the ingratiating coquette she once was. She sees in Marie herself at that age, and encourages her pursuit of wealthy Bruce and muscular Turk.  Doc, who ekes out a living as a chiropractor, was forced to abandon a promising career in medicine when he married a pregnant Lola. She subsequently lost the baby.  As a recovering alcoholic Doc maintains a precarious sobriety by avoiding the past. For him, Marie represents the youth and opportunity he sacrificed, and his eventual realization that she is not as pure and perfect as he imagined sends him back to the bottle and a slow descent into unbridled rage.  The title refers to Lola’s missing dog, who remains lost at the play’s end.

Cast:

Doc-Wade Riggs
Lola-Danna Swanenberg
Marie-Chelsea Bailey
Turk-.Ian C. Dalziel
Postman-Jet Thomas
Mrs. Coffman-Marilyn Robrahn
Bruce-Dan Beckman
Milkman-Daniel Linberg
Ed Anderson-Haref Topete

Act One, Scene Two: Coming in February

San Francisco’s Un-Scripted Theater Company is teaming up with Redding’s Riverfront Playhouse to bring a unique theatrical experience to Redding’s theater community! We are looking for Redding area playwrights to write us the first 5-9 pages of a full-length play in any genre (comedy, drama, tragedy, tragicomedy, absurdist, postmodern existentialist feminism, etc.), but then stop right there. Just give us the most brilliant beginning to a play you can imagine. Un-Scripted will be using three of those opening scenes for an encore presentation of Act One, Scene Two in Redding, and we’re hoping you’re interested in collaborating with us!

For more information, check out the Submission Guidelines.

Written by Ken Ludwig

Directed by Jennifer Levens

Synopsis

Winner of 3 Tony Awards and 4 Drama Desk Awards, Lend Me A Tenor is set in September 1934. Saunders, the general manager of the Cleveland Grand Opera Company, is primed to welcome world famous, Tito Morelli, Il Stupendo, the greatest tenor of his generation, to appear for one night only as Otello. The star arrives late and, through a hilarious series of mishaps, is given a double dose of tranquilizers and passes out. His pulse is so low that Saunders and his assistant Max believe he’s dead. In a frantic attempt to salvage the evening, Saunders persuades Max to get into Morelli’s Otello costume and fool the audience into thinking he’s Il Stupendo. Max succeeds admirably, but Morelli comes to and gets into his other costume ready to perform. Now two Otellos are running around in costume and two women are running around in lingerie, each thinking she is with Il Stupendo. A sensation on Broadway and in London’s West End, this madcap, screwball comedy is guaranteed to leave audiences teary-eyed with laughter.

CAST ANNOUNCED

Director Jennifer Levens , Assistant Director Sandy Terry
Stage Manager Kay Overbay
Artistic Director Jonessa Brittan

Sharon McClure, Colin Peacock, Chad

MacFarlane,  Leah Albin, Haref Topede,

Kim Mobley, Jason Prado,

and Sarah Brackett

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