2008-2009:  Visions & Voices: 2008 New Play Reading Series  |  Dream of a Common Language  |  The Hermit Bird  

 2007-2008:  Death of Ayn Rand / A Bed of My Own  |  Mankind’s Last Hope  |  Candide 

2006-2007:  Love on the Edge: New Play Reading Series  |  Orphans 

 INAUGURAL SEASON:  Threepenny Opera 

 

 

 

LOVE ON THE EDGE: Summer ’06 New Play Reading Series

 

Three nights of staged readings featuring new works by Bay Area playwrights.

All performances at Spellbinding Tales, 1919A Encinal Ave, Alameda.

 

  
 

 

Dan Kapler and Meera Kumbhani (Anatomy)

Photographer: Laura Lundy-Paine

 

June 17, 2006  
MISPLACED PERSONS

 

Written by Jane Goldsmith

Directed by Angela Dant

The doors to Ruth’s life, emotions, and soul, locked tight for years, are flung open when a surprise visitor arrives.

 

FEATURING: Dorian Lockett, Laura Lundy-Paine, and Karys Rhea

 

 

July 8, 2006

AN EVENING OF ONE ACTS

 

THE HERMIT BIRD

 

Written by John Byrd

Directed by Robert Lundy-Paine

 

THE DEATH OF AYN RAND

 

Written by John Byrd

Directed by Robert Lundy-Paine

  

THE HERMIT BIRD: Backwoods Rain washes away the mud of reality to expose the simple delicate vulnerabilities of love in this stunning one act by John Byrd.

FEATURING: Molly M. Holcomb, Joe Wolff, Jeremy Vik, and Angela Dant

 

THE DEATH OF AYN RAND: Theatre, reality and life are turned upside down in this absurdist comic journey into the final moments of Ayn Rand's life.

FEATURING: Sondra Putnam, Jeremy Vik, Angela Dant, Joe Wolff, and Molly M. Holcomb

 

 

July 21, 2006

Seduction, love, interrogation and sex converge as an Episcopal priest and his daughter struggle against the agony of loss.

 

FEATURING: Dan Kapler, Meera Kumbhani, Robert Lundy-Paine, and Sondra Putnam

ANATOMY

 

Written by Bob Lane

Directed by Laura Lundy-Paine
 

 

     
 
 
   
   
   
 

Production photos by

David Hoekenga, Laura Lundy-Paine, and Tricia Parrish
Marketing photo by David Hoekenga

 

A ferocious and complex entanglement between two orphan brothers and the drunk they kidnap leads to a stunning conclusion.  This psychological drama will have you on the edge of your seat.
   
 

ORPHANS

Written by LYLE KESSLER

Directed by ROBERT LUNDY-PAINE

 

PRODUCTION DATES

March 9 – 31, 2007

 

All performances at

BRIDGEHEAD STUDIO

2516 Blanding Avenue, Alameda

 

CAST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Harold: ROBERT HAMM*
Treat: KENNETH SEARS
Phillip: ALEC MATHIESON

 

CREW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Director:  Robert Lundy-Paine

Stage Manager:  Annie Anderson

Set Design/Technical Director:  Robert Lundy-Paine

Technical Assistant:  Chuck DiGuida

Lighting Designer:  Don Bialik

Set Construction:  Anthony Abate, Alana & Charles Dill, Dan Kapler, Alex Lowe

Costumes:  Galen Vik

Fight Choreographer:  Michael Storm

Props:  Angela Dant, Tracey Rhys, Deborah Robbins

 

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Member, Actors' Equity*