Untethered Theatre Company has announced the cast for their upcoming production of SAVAGE IN LIMBO, directed by Kevin Crowley
The cast includes:
Performance dates are Nov. 9-25 at the Clifton Performance Theatre. For more information visit http://www.untetheredtheaterco.com/
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SAVAGE IN LIMBO
Presented by Untethered Theater
Nov. 9-25
Clifton
Directed by Kevin Crowley
Cast: Leah Strasser as Denise Savage, Mindy Heithaus as Linda Rotunda, Carter Bratton as Tony Aronica, Carol Brammer as April White & Glenn Schaich as Murk
A Savage walks into a bar. She has a purse full of cash and a consuming need to make a change in her life, starting with the apartment she shares with her mother. At this Bronx bar she’s surrounded by other stunted losers, fellow 32 year olds who peaked long ago. Some of them find freedom at the bottom, while others find they’re still alone. Savage in Limbo is a heartrending dark comedy about unrealized potential and realizing you never had potential to begin with.
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Untethered Theater is proud to announce its full, official season for 2012-2013. The ensemble will stage four shows about isolation, love, mortality and starting over at the Clifton Performance Theatre. Tickets will be available at untetheredtheaterco.com closer to performance dates. Announcements about casting and directors to soon follow.
SAVAGE IN LIMBO
11/9-11/25
By John Patrick Shanley
A Savage walks into a bar. She has a purse full of cash and a consuming need to make a change in her life, starting with the apartment she shares with her mother. At this Bronx bar she’s surrounded by other stunted losers, fellow 32 year olds who peaked long ago. Some of them find freedom at the bottom, while others find they’re still alone. Savage in Limbo is a heartrending dark comedy about unrealized potential and realizing you never had potential to begin with.
RED LIGHT WINTER
1/18-2/3
By Adam Rapp
Matt can talk about the world at length even if he’s too emotionally muddled to participate in it. Davis is the eternal life of the party. These college pals take one last stab at their 20s with a trip to Amsterdam, where a night with a beguiling prostitute called Christina changes everything. One of the most provocative plays of the past decade, the Pulitzer Prize-nominated Red Light Winter reminds us that the past – no matter how much you’d like to forget, or what you choose to remember – is never far behind.
APARTMENT 3A
4/12-4/28
By Jeff Daniels
No one donates to public television anymore. Bitter and hanging onto her idealism by a thread, Annie Wilson is fighting the good fight while fighting off the advances of her lovestruck coworker Elliot. When she moves into a new apartment, her married neighbor Donald becomes a confidant, sharing stories of love, loss and scrambled eggs. This is a story about faith of all kinds. It’s never to late for a second chance, right?
LOVE STORIES
7/12-7/28
By Itamar Moses
Nothing is what it seems in these five vignettes about the tactics we use to keep love, and how to cope without it. An interview with a Russian director becomes a passive aggressive altercation. A play is stripped down to the most basic subtext and rebuilt as something else entirely. A writer must swallow his a pride to meet the man who took his place. Through it all, there’s that universal truth about love: it hurts, but you will get used to it.
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Christopher Dooley as Harry & Colette Thomas as Joan.
LOVE SONG presented by The Untethered Theater Company through Jan. 15. You can read the show description here.
UTC aims high with their sophomore production, taking on a demanding script (in character and set). LOVE SONG is described as a “quirky, off-beat comedy.” Quirky is hard to pull off. Opening night, it seemed the cast had yet to find their rhythm with each other.
The lead of Beane is played by Glenn Schaich. His interpretation of Beane came across more as emotionally detached rather than socially awkward. I understand why, for the first scenes of the show, you had Beane dressed as he was, but the fully buttoned trench coat came off a bit “flasher-ish” to me. It would have been welcome to see a bit more personality come through. The more the audience is rooting for Beane, the more successful the show.
MaryKate Moran as Molly & Glenn Schaich as Beane.
Early scenes with Beane’s sister Joan (Colette Thomas) and her husband Harry (Christopher Dooley) were not as successful as their later, happy scene. The two actors didn’t seem to be performing at the same level in emotion and energy. I understand that the relationship is troubled but I didn’t get a good sense of why.
Rounding out the cast is MaryKate Moran as Beane’s girlfriend Molly. I enjoyed the level of intensity she brought to the character initially, but as Molly begins to soften, so did the energy of the character.
Colette Thomas as Joan & Glenn Schaich as Beane.
One of the most successful scenes takes place near the end of the play in the heart-to-heart with siblings Beane and Joan in his apartment. I do think there is a bit more humor to find in the script, especially during the scene in the restaurant.
The three playing areas for the show required the set to run the length of the building. I wish there had been some way to get the set pieces off the floor a bit. Actor’s heads tended to disappear into the audience whenever they sat on stage in either living space. The required special effect for the apartment didn’t read very well from across the room. The white on white walls made it hard to tell, visually, what was happening.
Overall, the pieces are there for a good production and I’m confident that the performances will get stronger as the run continues. The connections between the characters just need to be better defined.
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LOVE SONG
Presented by Untethered Theater Company
Jan. 6-15
Clifton
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A quirky, off-beat comedy about how an unexpected encounter changes a man’s outlook on life and love. It follows Beane, a socially awkward toll booth attendant who has no social life. His uptight, workaholic sister, Joan, is worried about him and wants to help, but she should really be focusing on the fact that the spark has gone out of her marriage. One night, Beane returns home to find a mysterious woman robbing his apartment, and his world changes. Beane feels brand new, and it rubs off on everyone around him.
Directed by Carter Bratton
Cast: Glenn Schaich, Christopher Dooley, Colette Thomas & MaryKate Moran
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