Directed by Jennifer Decker

CAST:

Wayne Barnhill

Paul Drake

Patricia Duran

Christie Guidry-Stryk

Ryan Kelly

Karen Shlag

Liz Seabolt

Amy Warren

Anne Zimmerman

CREW

Stage Manager and AD: Mike Switzer

Lighting: by Kevin Taylor (KT)

Set Design by: Ayn Morgan

Costumes: Jennifer Decker

Video by Mike Mullins (Higgs Field), Eric Doss (Joan of Arc in Autumn)

Sound Design: Charlie Naked

Light Op: Robin

Video and Sound Op: Rebecca Ayers

Dark Matter:

Five Gothic Tales  of Horror

By Don Nigro

Directed by Jennifer Decker

Mildred’s Umbrella Theater Company takes a journey to the dark side of romance this summer with five short plays of gothic horror by Don Nigro. The plays include:

Lucy and the Mystery of the Vine Encrusted Mansion. An eccentric comedy that is a ‘Gorey drawing come to life’ in which a girl, ‘sixteen and lost’, becomes entangled in a tale of her own invention that may not allow her to return from it sane.

The Malefactor’s Bloody Register. A true story of abuse and murder from the pages of the notorious eighteenth century compendium of crime, The Newgate Calendar, in which three young girls tell of the horrors they suffered at the hands of a mad midwife. “ One lived, one died, one was lost. Which is which?”

Higgs Field. Andromeda awakens from a dream about ravens and runs to Higgs Field, where surreal metaphors of modern physics spring to life as a Gothic nightmare.

Darkness Like a Dream. A lonely actress cast as a fairy in A Midsummer Night’s Dream leads a man on an eerie journey through a labyrinth of dark country roads, growing more and more afraid of what will happen when they stop.

Joan of Arc in Autumn. A young woman speaks about her confused memories of her life and martyrdom, which now seems like a dream in which there is much whispering and everything is burning. Perhaps she is a mad girl found in a brothel; perhaps not.

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