Season

An HB Studio Performance

Playwright: Petrina McGowen

Director: Carol Rosenfeld

Cast: Kathryn Breech, Wayne Moore, Michael T. Folie, Barbara Preminger, Laura Gardner, James Ramsay

Set Designer: Michael Massee Lighting Designer: Sara Schrager Production Manager Marlene Mancini Stage Manager Alexandra Melchi House Manager: Patricia French Production Assistant: Neil Richman Hospitality: Vanessa French & Rena Stavrolakes.

While… was performed April 22nd – May 1st

Playwright: Pavel Kohout

Director: Herbert Berghof

Cast: Lawrence Luckinbill, Bernard E. Barrow, Ernest W. Graves, Ellen Barber, Rudy Bond, Edmund Williams, Peter Maloney, Levana Finkelstein, Barbara Coggin, Elizabeth Dillon, Timothy Farmer, Sam Cousins, Stuart Rudin, Marc Burd, Tamara Bliss, Stanley Wietrzychowski and Anita Feldman

Set Designer: Dan Leigh Costume Designer: Barbara Rose Lighting Designer: Martin Tudor  Production Manager: Marlene Mancini Literary Advisor: Micky Levi Composer: Tamara Bliss, Stanley Wietrzyschowski  Technical Director: Timothy Farmer Stage Manager: Anita Feldman  Production Assistant: Doris Brook, Carol Schaye Production Carpenter: Marc Burd, Sam Cousins, Stuart Rudin Production Electrician: Douglas Murray Poster Designer: Robert Biro House Manager: Carol Schaye Hospitality: Dawn Gallagher, Mickie Gallagher, Vanessa French, Rena Stavrolakes

Poor Murderer was performed July 13th – 21st of the year 1974.

Synopsis:

An HB Studio Performance

Playwright: Thornton Wilder

Cast: Shirley Bodtke, Barbara Coggin, James Dybas, Patricia O’Grady, Lelia Weston

Set Designer: Dan Leigh Lighting Designer: Martin Tudor Costume Designer: Betty Martin  Production Manager: Marlene Mancini Technical Director: Timothy Farmer Stage Manager: Anita Feldman Stage Manager: Brooks Porter Production Electrician: Douglas Murray Production Assistant: Marc Burd Production Assistant: Ellen Michaels Poster Designer: Ann Raychel Poster Designer: Robert Biro House Manager: Dawn Gallagher  Hospitality: Mickie Gallagher Hospitality: Vanessa French Hospitality: Rena Stavrolakes

The Drunken Sisters was performed May 30th – June 8th

Synopsis: The Drunken Sisters is Wilder’s satyr play that followed The Alcestiad, his adaptation of the ancient Greek “Alcestis” story. Apollo ventures into the land of the three sisters of Fate who control the threads of each man’s life, and here in disguise he tricks the sisters into releasing their death hold on King Admetus. His trick: 3 flagons of wine which he declares to be Aphrodite’s beauty drink but which make the sisters drunk. He then foils them with a riddle, releasing the king from their snares– but only on the understanding that another is to die in his stead.

Playwright: Samuel Beckett

Director: Samuel Beckett

Cast: Herbert Berghof

Set Designer: Dan Leigh Lighting Designer: Martin Tudor Costume Designer: Betty Martin Production Manager: Marlene Mancini Technical Director: Timothy Farmer Stage Manager: Anita Feldman Stage Manager: Brooks Porter Production Electrician: Douglas Murray Production Assistant: Marc Burd Production Assistant: Ellen Michaels Poster Designer: Ann Raychel Poster Designer: Robert Biro House Manager: Dawn Gallagher Hospitality: Mickie Gallagher, Vanessa French, and Rena Stavrolakes

Krapp’s Last Tape was performed May 30th – June 8th

Synopsis: Krapp is elderly and emotionally depressed man. It is his 69^th birthday. To mark the occasion, Krapp first listens to a tape he made on his thirty-ninth birthday to record important events and thoughts of the past year. He reviews tapes when he was younger and reminisces those moments. The play ends with elderly Krapp staring at nothing while the tape plays only silence.

An HB Studio Performance

Playwright: Franz Kafka

Director: Franz Kafka

Cast: Robert Elston

Set Designer: Dan Leigh Lighting Designer: Martin Tudor Costume Designer: Betty Martin Production Manager: Marlene Mancini Technical Director: Timothy Farmer Stage Manager: Anita Feldman and Brooks Porter Production Electrician: Douglas Murray Production Assistant: Marc Burd and Ellen Michaels Poster Designer: Ann Raychel and Robert Biro House Manager: Dawn Gallagher Hospitality: Mickie Gallagher, Vanessa French and Rena Stavrolakes

A Report to an Academy was performed May 30th – June 8th of the year 1975.

Synopsis: This play is about an ape named Red Peter who has learned to behave with human-like qualities. He makes a presentation at the request of a scientific academy about how he has achieved his remarkable transformation. Red Peter feels trapped between two worlds as well as his past and present lives. He recognizes that he has transitioned into something new, no longer representing what he used to in the form of an ape; however, in the human world, he is still perceived as such. He regrets that he cannot supply any more information about his life as an ape, recognizing that attempting to transition back to an ape is more difficult than his transition towards humanness. His only desire now is not to be judged for his behavior but rather to spread knowledge.