Full Productions

Playwright: Martin Sherman

Directors: Walter Witcover

Cast: Terry Kiser, Boris Tumarin and Anna Sten

Scene: Gordon Micunios Lighting Designer: Tony Quintavalia, Technical Director: Philip Lerman, Crew: Frank Crocitto, Richard Frey, Andre Sedriks Violin Solo: Sidney Kaufman Sound: A. Vanvrylief and Harry Seymour Properties: Carol Branston and Dennis Kear Crew: Frank Crocitto, Richard Frey and Andre Sedriks

Next Year in Jerusalem was performed from June 19th- June 23rd of the year 1968.

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Playwright: Stephen Levi

Director: Stephen Levi

Cast: Kathleen Coyne, Deborah White, James Barron, Robert Crest, Jeanne Kaplan, Alice Spivak, Patrick McVey, Michael Holmes

Designer: Charles D. Tomlinson Lighting Designer: Peggy Clark Costumes: Lyn Carroll Stage Manager: Andy Rasbury Assistant to Mr. Levi: Deidre Donovan House Manager: Richard Frey Lighting Technician: Rowanne Gilman Program Designer: Carol Badger

Cherry Soda Water was performed May 20th- May 31st.

Synopsis:

After a day of work, a voluptuous prostitute searches for her 14 year old daughter Cherry. She finds a glowing case of cherry soda water on her front steps, a sign that her love has returned from the sea full of passion and tall tales. The exuberant Irish sailor wants to meet the daughter he has never seen, but she insists he settle down to become a husband and father before she will let him near Cherry. He can’t pay this price; he has one more voyage to complete before he dies at sea. This powerful love story is full of vitality. Published with Cherry and Little Banjo and Red Roses for My Lady in Cherry Soda Water.

Playwright: Stephen Levi

Director: Stephen Levi

Cast: Kathleen Coyne, Deborah White, James Barron, Robert Crest, Jeanne Kaplan, Alice Spivak, Patrick McVey, Michael Holmes

Designer: Charles D. Tomlinson Lighting Designer: Peggy Clark Costumes: Lyn Carroll Stage Manager: Andy Rasbury Assistant to Mr. Levi: Deidre Donovan House Manager: Richard Frey Lighting Technician: Rowanne Gilman Program Designer: Carol Badger

Cherry Soda Water was performed May 20th- May 31st.

Synopsis:

On the same night in a northern California coastal town, two families are challenged as reality crashes into fantasy in three related one act plays. In tone, Cherry and Little Banjo Red Roses for My Lady and The Gulf of Crimson vary from lost innocence to shattered dreams to revived love.

Playwright: Horton Foote

Director: Herbert Berghoff

Cast: Edward Anthony, Franc Geraci, Olga Bellin, Michael Holmes, Oliver Berg, Susan Kornzweig, Kenneth Bridges, Richard McConnell, Marlene Mancini, Leigh Burch, Thomas McCready, Michael Corder, Carol Pearce, Robert Duvall, Brooks Rogers, Romulus Linney, Dorothy Farrell, Jean Francis, Naomi Riordan, Richard Frey, Emma Rossi and Andre Sedriks

Designer: Philip Lerman Costume Designer: Sherry Amott and Whitney Blausen Lighting Designer: Anthony Quintavalla Special Props: Kathe Berl Lighting Technician: Howard Golstein Assistant Stage Manger: John Bettencourt Production Assistants: Whitney Blausen, Vernon Yates, Adrianne Despot, Nicole Rude, Richard Frey, Andre Sedriks, Eve De Kramer, Frank Crocitto, William Freedman and Carol Badger

Tomorrow was performed April 15th – May 4th of the year 1968.

Synopsis: 

In 1930s Mississippi, lonely Jackson Fentry (Robert Duvall) lives by himself as the sole caretaker of a sawmill. One day, close to the property, he discovers a young woman, Sarah Eubanks (Olga Bellin), who is three months pregnant. Since she was abandoned by both her husband and her family, Jackson takes her in. The two fall in love and get married just before her death. Jackson raises the child as his own, until the boy’s uncles arrive to demand he be returned to the family.

Playwright: Irven Rinard

Director: Oliver Berg

Cast: Mason Adams, Kenneth Bridges, Lambreni Demetriadou, Karen Ludwig, James McMahon, Margaret Ritchie, Ted Schwartz and Lyla Yastion

Lighting Designer: Patrika Brown Lighting Technician: Howard Goldenstein Lighting Assistant: Philip Kay Stage Manager: Richard Frey Nancy, Petochi and William Freedman

Futurities was performed March 7th – 16th of the year 1967.

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Playwright: Norman Kline

Director: Thomas Skelton

Cast: Barbara Barrie, Oliver Berg, Herbert Berghof, Beryl Bernay, Tony Capodilupo, Kevin Conway, Josephine Lemmo and Edward Yastion

Artist: Beryl Bernay Lighting Technician: Anthony Quintavalla Stage Manager: Will McClure Production Manager: Judy Gindin House Manager: James Guido Production Assistants: Howard Goldstein, Katharine D’Ivanzo, Phil Lerman and Michael Corder

Faces was performed November 10th – 19th of the year 1967.

Synopsis:

Playwright: Eric Bentley

Director: Herbert Berghof and Uta Hagen

Cast: Joanne Bayes, Josephine Lemmo, Olga Bellin, Beverly Luckenbach, Oliver Berg, Salem Ludwig, Herbert Berghof, Edward Morehouse, Don Bishop, Richard Morse, Kent Broadhurst, James Patterson, Shirley Cox, Fern Sloan, Angus M. Duncan, Augustus Sultatos, Michael Higgins, William Traylor, Arthur Hill, Fritz Weaver, Michael Holmes and George Welbes

Designer: Lester Polakov Men’s Costume Designer: Kathe Berl Female’s Costume Designer: James Dukes Composer: Richard Peaslee Technical Director: Philip Lerman Assistant to Mr. Berghof: Marlene Mancini Stage Manager: Erin Fleming Production Assistant: Albert Amateau Production Assistan

t: Don Berry Production Assistant: Patrika Brown Production Assistant: Michael Corder Production Assistant: Frank Crocitto Production Assistant: Pennie duPont Production Assistant: Linda Geiser Produ

ction Assistant: Tom MacCready Production Assistant: Tony Quintavalla Production Assistant: Lesley Secomb Production Assistant: Andre Sedriks Production Assistant: Albert Settimio Production Assistant: Meira Shore Production Assistant: Lorry Wynne Production Assistant: Karen Ludwig

Commitments was performed in March.

Playwrights: Frank Crocitto/Norman Kline

Director: Herbert Berghof

An Evening of Scenes was performed December 5th – 10th

Playwright: Tennessee Williams

Director: William Hickey

Cast: Gerald Black, Betty Pelzer, Elizabeth Newitt, Ellen Welch, Jeffrey Klein, Erica Evans, Ed Shavitz, Jane Holzer, Joyce Barker, Michael Beckett, Alice Spivak, Andrea Fooner, Diane Simkin, Pat Finnegan, George Augustus, Herbert Jefferson, Jeremy Stevens, Tom McCready, Craig Corder, Michael Corder, Jim Cashman and Sandy Sprung

Lighting Designer: Anthony Quintavalla Costume Designer: Joanne Bayes Stage Manager: Trent Gough House Manager: Pennie duPont Assistant Stage Manager: Andrea Fooner Production Assistant: Gwen Saska Assistant Director: Michael Beckett

Battle of Angels was performed November 28th – December 3rd of the year 1967.

Synopsis:

The plot surrounds a migrant worker Val who arrives in a small town and takes a job in a general store. He piques the interest of an unmarried woman Cassandra (whose failure to marry has made a notorious figure in the community). Their date goes badly when she seems to expect sex from Val. Val later falls in love with the married manager of the store, Myra. Myra’s husband is old and dying and she is attracted to Val so they eventually become lovers. Val has a past. He fled Waco due to accusations of rape (he is apparently innocent but we really only has his claim that the woman from Waco was slighted by Val’s regrets the next day). During his employment, Val comes to the aid of an unemployed black man who is threatened with arrest for vagrancy. These four characters are bound by legal expectations. Val, like Caleb Williams or Jean Valjean, is being chased throughout the country for alleged crimes. This makes it impossible for him to settle in one place. The opposite is the fate of Loom, the black migrant, who by not being tied to the employment of a white man is considered a dangerous element in the small town. Cassandra is scorned by the other women in the town for her sexual liberty. Myra is bound to a banal and lifeless marriage. She is so desperate to escape that she has to lock the backroom door at one point and hide the key so as not to be driven to adultery with Val, who she is quickly falling in love with.