Strange Interlude 11-12

“Drama diehards should vote for this kind of nervy programming with their wallets; [Strange Interlude] is by far the most adventurous entry in the spring’s Eugene O’Neill Festival.”
The Washington Post

“Thanks to director Michael Kahn’s keen vision, inspired casting, skillful editing and beautiful pacing, the play positively flies. Francesca Faridany is absolutely stellar.”
Metro Weekly

STC Artistic Director Michael Kahn directs Eugene O’Neill’s Pulitzer Prize-winning, yet controversial, drama about love and deception. Heartbroken over her adored fiancé’s death, Nina engages in a series of sordid affairs before marrying a man she does not love. Months later, pregnant with her husband’s child, she learns a horrifying secret about his family, setting off a dramatic and emotional chain of events that spans two decades. One of O’Neill’s early plays, Strange Interlude was hailed as revolutionary, shocked 1928 audiences–and became a smash hit. Michael Kahn’s production of another O’Neill classic, Mourning Becomes Electra, was called a “raw force” by The Washington Post.Read Michael’s blog, Stage Interludes from Michael Kahn, on DC Theatre Scene.

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Francesca Faridany*
Nina Leeds

Rachel Spencer Hewitt*
Madeline Arnold

Tana Hicken*
Mrs. Amos Evans

Ted Koch*
Sam Evans

Jake Land
Gordon Evans as a boy

Joe Short*
Gordon Evans as a young man

Robert Stanton*
Charles Marsden

Baylen Thomas*
Edmund (Ned) Darrell

Ted van Griethuysen*
Professor Henry Leeds

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.

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Michael Kahn
Director

Walt Spangler
Set Designer

Jane Greenwood
Costume Designer

Stephen Strawbridge
Lighting Designer

Fitz Patton
Composer and Sound Designer

Aaron Rhyne
Projection Designer

Tom Watson
Wig and Hair Designer

Laura Stanczyk, CSA
Casting

Daniel Neville-Rehbehn
Resident Casting Director

Ellen O’Brien
Head of Voice and Text

Drew Lichtenberg
Literary Associate

Jenny Lord
Assistant Director

Elyzabeth Gorman
Directorial Observer/Sir John Gielgud Fellow

Daniel Urlie
Associate Costume Designer

Joseph Smelser*
Production Stage Manager

Benjamin Royer*
Assistant Stage Manager
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“Thanks to director Michael Kahn’s keen vision, inspired casting, skillful editing and beautiful pacing, the play positively flies.”
“equal doses of wit, insight and entertaining melodrama”
Metro Weekly

“honest and clearheaded production”
“It is hilarious, and a little embarrassing, and beautifully, profoundly human.”
DC Theatre Scene

“drama diehards should vote for this kind of nervy programming with their wallets”
“a melodrama churning with invention”
“the production is by far the most adventurous entry in the spring’s Eugene O’Neill Festival”
The Washington Post

“An engrossing journey”
WomanAroundTown.com

“a startlingly new, singularly American sort of drama”
Washington City Paper

“A snappy, funny, clever, compelling, riveting, tragic story”
We Love DC

“Michael Kahn deserves a medal”
“there’s a real prize at the core of this impressive production”
Washingtonian
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