Bethany
Written by Laura Marks
Directed by Tracy Ward
August 3 & 4, 2015, doors at 6pm; performance at 7pm
Description
Crystal is a woman trying to hold it all together. She's smart and hard-working, but a series of bad circumstances have run her life right off track. Inspired by the dark stories which came from our country's downward financial spiral, Laura Marks created a tense emotional drama about a young single mother scrambling to survive. Just how far would you go to protect your child?
FROM DIRECTOR TRACY WARD:
“Bethany intrigues me as an examination of the recent (and potentially repeating) economic past, cross-cut with the impact and toll the events of the crash in 2007-8 had on the human psyche. I love the way Laura Marks has folded the facets of damage into the different characters, revealing a common desperation that winds its way through their lives, and how this adds up to the shocking as well as inevitable conclusion.”
“Ms. Marks’s trenchant, economical drama is...rare among new American plays in the clear, compassionate attention it pays to the corrosive effects of the economic downturn...Self-reliance may be a celebrated American virtue, but Bethany reminds us that the distance between self-preservation and pure ruthlessness can be collapsed with alarming ease.”
—Charles Isherwood, New York Times Review of Bethany 1/20/13
Cast
Carlye Pollack, Crystal
Emily Rosenthal, Shannon
Paul S. Jennings, Gary
Aaron Murphy, Charlie
Beth Wilmurt, Patricia
Karen Offereins, Toni
Crew
Tracy Ward, Director
Sofie Miller, Stage Manager
James Ard, Sound Design
Mitchell Jakubka, Lighting Design
Series Coordinators
Susannah Martin
Beth Wilmurt
Series Sponsors
Ann Gabor Arancio & Remo Arancio
Mark Chaitkin & Cecilia Storr
Joe Mallon & Sue Trowbridge
Chard Nelson & Jan Berman
Stanley & Miriam Schiffman
Jon Wagner & Lynne Hollingsworth
Tamara White
