2012 – 2013 Season:
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
and adapted by Frank Galati
Directed by Rebecca Holderness
With Michael Wong, Dane Figueroa Edidi, Steve Beall, Julia Nakamoto, Jennifer Knight, Tuyet Thi Pham, Steve Lee, Al Twanmo, MiRan Powell, Sarah Taurchini, Jon Jon Johnson, and Wonsup Chung
January 31-February 24, 2013
Filled with riddles—only some of them solved. A kaleidoscope of images and characters who morph, combine, and fall into patterns of perfect dream logic. A journey to the brink of the subconscious and back.
Reckless by Craig Lucas
Directed by Richard Henrich
With Mundy Spears, Jim Zidar, Camron Robertson, Tiffany Garfinkle, Hilary Kacser, Doug Krehbel, and Gale Nemec
From Craig Lucas comes this darkly comic tale of a modern-day Alice in a perilous winter wonderland. When Rachel is forced to flee her home on Christmas Eve, she embarks on a series of comic misadventures that test her belief that it is indeed a wonderful life.
2011 – 2012 Season:
The Water Engine by David Mamet
Directed by Richard Henrich
With Scott Seder, Noah Mitchel, Laura Rocklyn, Hilary Kacser, David Coyne; Ian LeValley, T. Griffin Jones, John Brady, Max Jackson, Mary Egan; Baakari Wilder and Chuck Young.
February 15 – March 11 2012
The Water Engine: Through the device of a live radio play, Mamet follows the agony of an inventor named Charles Lang who attempt to get his revolutionary creation patented: an engine which runs exclusively on water. In his journey, Lang has to face an ugly side of Chicago not advertised at the Century of Progress Exposition.
2010 – 2011 Season:
Einstein’s Dreams
From the novella by Alan Lightman, adapted by Kipp Erante Cheng.
Directed by Richard Henrich
With Adam Segaller
June 2 – 26, 2011
A patent clerk in Switzerland dreams possible theories of Time. Twenty six-year old Einstein discovers Relativity, as other worlds nesting inside the shell of convention blossom and unfold. Twelve actors make and remake past, present and future in movement, light and sound – giving us physics in action and a transforming vision of life.
Horus
Written and Directed by Richard Henrich
With Wendy Wilmer, Matthew Friedman and Davis Hasty
Presented as a part of the 2010 Capital Fringe Festival.
July 11 – 25, 2010
Fort Fringe – Redrum 612 L Street NW, Washington, DC 2000
HORUS (ancient Egyptian god): A down-at-the-heels French lady artist and a young wannabe developer cook up an unlikely real estate scheme. Under duress, denizens of their unconscious minds surface and become real, with supernatural effect. Funny, weird, and always thought-provoking.
2009 – 2010 Season:
The Lost Ones a text by Samuel Beckett
Directed by Richard Henrich
Featuring Carter Jahncke
Presented as a part of the 2009 Capital Fringe Festival
July 10 – 24, 2009
The Warehouse — Next Door, 1021 7th ST NW , Washington DC
The Lost Ones: Cast of hundreds! Scores of tiny people. One man. Locked in the inmost sanctum of the mind. This could be the end of all… Like nothing you’ve seen – or experienced – anywhere else. It’s not allowed.
2008 – 2009 Season:
Dreams of Women Dancing by Michael A Stang
Directed by Jessica Lefkow
A New WorkShop production
April 26, 2009
Black Box Theatre, Montgomery College
With Dave Coyne, Jessica Drizd Aimone, Carter Jahncke, Stephanie Lagerlef and Carol McCaffrey
Dreams of Women Dancing: An art conservator working in Paris hears opera not performed in 100 years and sees buildings as they were a century ago. Is he going mad? The strange truth is the spirit of a great master has important business to complete. And our hero’s hand holds the brush.
Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulkakov
Directed by Patrick Torres
February 13 -Mars 8, 2009
Black Box Theatre, Montgomery College
With Carter Jahncke, James Gagne, Joshua Drew, Janey Richards, D Grant Cloyd, Karen Novack and Joshua Singer .
Heart of a Dog: A hilarious satire from the author of The Master and Margarita. A great Professor performs a surgical miracle with transplants, transforming a stray dog into a human. Dog, now man, runs riot in the Professor’s household and becomes a rising communist apparatchik, extending his antic rampage to the world outside. Banned over 60 years in Russia, this biting comedy is now a universally savored cultural phenomenon.
Beckett Duo: Krapp’s Last Tape & Ohio Impromptu by Samuel Beckett
Directed by Richard Henrich
October 31 – November 23, 2008
Black Box Theatre, Montgomery College
Featuring Carter Jahncke
“Krapp’s Last Tape is about memories: A handful of one old man’s highly specific memories, each one hard-wired with a different, shattering emotion. Jahncke prowls the stage, he sighs with sybaritic relish as he successfully threads his reel-to-reel, gets well and truly gobsmacked upon listening to a description of a beautiful woman he’s long since forgotten, and dismisses his younger self’s spiritual dabbling with unalloyed rage.” - CityPaper
2007- 2008 Season:
Dizzy Miss Lizzie’s Roadside Revue Presents The Oresteia based on Aeschylus
Music and Lyrics: Debra Buonaccorsi and Steve McWilliams
Book by: Debra Buonaccorsi
2008 Capital Fringe Festival
THE BALDACCHINO – LOCATED @ FORT FRINGE, 607 NY Ave, NW
Selected dates from July 11 – July 26, 2008
If the ancient Greek playwright, Aeschylus had gone on tour with Led Zeppelin, Woody Guthrie and a carnie troupe, this is what he would have written. A tale of blood, guts and vengeance, Aeschylus’s Oresteia, re-charged. Rowdy, raucous, loud and literate: Dizzy Miss Lizzie’s Roadside Revue Presents The Oresteia.
The Marriage of Bette and Boo by Christopher Durang
Directed by Perry T. Schwartz
June 5 – June 29, 2008
Black Box Theatre, Montgomery College
With Katie Atkinson, Gerald B. Browning, William C. Cook, Joe Cronin, Mary C. Davis, Bill Gordon, Martha Karl, Ellen Mansueto, David Rothman and Mundy Spears
Wicked and dazzling. Thirty years of divorce, alcoholism, madness and death in a wacky family world turned inside out. Wielding the sharp edge of farce, Durang strips an unlikely lode of irony and improbable laughter from the bone yard of his past.
Fool for Love By Sam Shepard
Directed by Kasi Campbell
Feb 14 – Mar 9, 2008
Black Box Theatre, Montgomery College
with Stewart Walker, Halsey Varady, Manolo Santalla and James Gagne
“Walker, hollow-eyed and unshaven, is superb … perfectly matched with Verady, who radiates sexuality like a star radiates heat. With this production, Spooky Action Theater establishes itself beyond question as a significant force in Washington theater. “ — DCTheatreScene.com
Dark Rapture by Eric Overmyer
Directed by Paul Takacs
Nov 8 – Dec 2, 2007
Black Box Theatre, Montgomery College
A fire in the Hollywood hills. A charred corpse in the rubble. Whose body is it? And where is the seven million dollars? The mob is probably going to want that back. Sex, death, money and mystery. Spooky Action brings film noir to the stage.
365 Days 365 Plays by Susan–Lori Parks
Directed by Richard Henrich
Sep 14 – Sep 15, 2007
Black Box Theatre, Montgomery College
A week from Suzan-Lori Parks’ play-a-day cycle. A meditation on an artistic life. Some plays are short, less than a page – and others last forever.
2006-2007 Season:
A Swedish Tiger by Göran Gillinger and Jens Östberg
Directed in Sweden by Jens Östberg
Directed in DC by Richard Henrich
Jul 20 – Jul 25, 2007
Woolly Mammoth Rehearsal Hall, Capital Fringe Festival
Abba, blondes, IKEA and neutrality. And a closet of dark secrets from WWII. In a fast paced, pop culture riff on the dangers of apathy in times of war and injustice.
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K LeGuin
Directed by Richard Henrich
May 31 – Jun 24, 2007
Black Box Theatre, Montgomery College
Blessed – or cursed – with reality altering dreams, George Orr comes under the hand of a doctor eager to remake the world. Danger! Dreams won’t be trained. Plague sweeps the earth, volcanoes emerge, Aliens take over the moon.
Holy Ghosts by Romulus Linney
Directed by Richard Henrich
Mar 8 – Apr 1, 2007
Black Box Theatre, Montgomery College
Along a back road in Appalachia, amid a Pentecostal sect that stirs up ecstasy out of laughter, music, prayer and lethal rattlesnakes, we are unexpectedly moved by the grace of lost souls who risk everything, from ridicule to madness to death, in the belief they will yet be found.
2005-2006 Season:
Alice In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
created, performed and written by the original members of The Manhattan Project
Directed by Richard Henrich
May 11 – Jun 4, 2006
Mead Theatre Lab at Flashpoint
Oxford don smitten with 7-year-old girl propels her through an unhinged alternate world. Things spring to life. All the creatures and people are mad. Propriety is stripped; the rules turn inside out. What’s left is raw instinct, and love rising up from the wreckage.
Rameau’s Nephew by Denis Diderot
adapted by Shelly Berc & Andrei Belgrader
Directed by Richard Henrich
March 8 – April 2, 2006
Mead Theatre Lab at Flashpoint
Part scoundrel, part genius and shameless buffoon, the Nephew makes pursuing the good life in pre-revolutionary Paris an art. A music hall on the edge of the abyss, Rameau’s Nephew resonates uncannily today, here in the world’s next Ancien Régime.
Save the Leopard by TJ Edwards
Directed by Richard Henrich
Oct 12 – Nov 6, 2005
Mead Theatre Lab at Flashpoint
Sharp and funny, no holds are barred – for Leo in saving wild leopards and Diana climbing the ladder of success. Their When Harry Met Sally affair ends in a head-on crash of ethics, agendas and wounded hearts. The endangered species…? It could be us.
2004:
Checkpoint by Nicholson Baker
directed by Richard Henrich
Oct 24 – Oct 26, 2004
The Warehouse Next Door
Imagine you’re at a checkpoint somewhere. Suddenly a machine gun howls, and you watch as the heads of your two little girls come off. Imagine you’re that mother, imagine what you’d do. How can life go on the same?
