Past Productions

 

What is Spooky Action?

Albert Einstein coined spooky action at a distance to describe a bit of quantum mechanics even he found incredible: two particles can become entangled such that, forever after, a change in one is matched by instant change in the other, no matter what the distance between them.  The prediction has since been proved. MORE

 

2007-2008 Season:

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.       MORE

 

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   MORE

 

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. MORE

 

365 Days 365 Plays by SusanLori Parks

Directed by Richard Henrich

Sep 14 Sep 15, 2007                                                              

Black Box Theatre, Montgomery College

A week from Suzan-Lori Parks’ play-a-day cycleA meditation on an artistic life.  Some plays are short, less than a page – and others last forever. MORE

 

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. MORE

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. MORE

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. MORE

 

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. MORE

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. MORE

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. MORE

 

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? MORE