Trinity Rep presents Kathleen Tolan's drama Memory House, directed by Curt Columbus, beginning on November 30 and running through January 6 in the Dowling Theater.
The essay question, "What's in your memory house?" sparks the play.
This innocuous question for a college entrance essay prompts a
free-spirited 18-year-old to question everything - especially her
adoption from Russia. The play unfolds in real time, as one woman
struggles to bake a pie while another races to meet a looming deadline.
Commissioned by Trinity Rep, Kathleen Tolan's play was originally
written with the theater's audience in mind. The idea for the
two-person piece came when she was working as a freelance writer. "I
interviewed a woman who had decided to adopt a child from Eastern
Europe. This six-year-old girl arrived in New York from a town where no
building was taller than 2 stories. I thought her story was so rich and
complicated: this passionate need to have a child magnified the issues
of parenting.", Tolan said in recent press notes.
The production features company member Anne Scurria as Maggie. Recent
Brown/Trinity Rep Consortium MFA graduate Susannah Flood will be
playing her teenage daughter Katia.
Each night during the play, Scurria will bake a blueberry pie from
scratch during the course of the evening - with an actual working oven
as part of the set design. Tolan says "It makes me so happy that you
can actually smell the pie baking. The whole audience doesn't realize
it at once, but there's this moment when people realize the pie is
actually baking now."
The set and lighting will be designed by Eugene Lee, with costumes by
Marilyn Salvatore and sound design by Peter Sasha Hurowitz.
The November 30th performance of Memory House is Pay What You Can
(PWYC). PWYC tickets go on sale
at 7:00 pm, limit one per person.
Regular performances start at 7:00 pm on Sundays, Tuesdays and
Wednesdays, and at 8:00 pm on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays with
selected Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday Matinees at 2pm.
Regular tickets range from $20-$60 and are on sale now at the Trinity
Rep box office, 201 Washington Street, Providence, RI; by phone at (401) 351-4242; and
online at www.trinityrep.com.
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