PTP/NYC 2018 Season
THE AFTER-DINNER JOKE
BY CARYL CHURCHILL
DIRECTED BY CHERYL FARAONE
A young idealist determines to do good and avoid the political; chaos ensues.
Tara Giordano*
Christo Grabowski*
Christopher Marshall*
Jonathan Tindle*
Kathleen Wise*
Lucy Van Atta*
Adam Milano
Roxy Adviento
Madeline Ciocci
Noah Liebmiller
Eliza Renner
Madeleine Russell
Set Design: Hallie Zieselman
Lighting Design: Joe Cabrera
Costume Design: Annie Ulrich
Projected Animations: Kyle Meredith
Stage Manager: Devin Wein*
Assistant Stage Manager: Kate Mandracchia*
Assistant Stage Managers: Coralie Tyler, Stephanie Miller
“Light on its feet and playful….‘The After-Dinner Joke’ is Caryl Churchill’s witty satire on the way charity is compromised by capitalism…a series of quick-fire sketches linked by a young woman determined to do good”
—The Guardian
“ ‘The After-Dinner Joke’ cuts to the chase as only Churchill can, and sketch after sketch skewers our assumptions about the simple virtues of charitable giving.”
—Time Out
THE POSSIBILITIES
BY HOWARD BARKER
DIRECTED BY RICHARD ROMAGNOLI
A quartet from an evening of parables.
Christopher Marshall*
Jonathan Tindle*
Kathleen Wise*
Marianne Tatum*
Adam Milano
Eliza Renner
Madeleine Russell
Set Design: Hallie Zieselman
Lighting Design: Joe Cabrera
Costume Design: Annie Ulrich
Projected Animations: Kyle Meredith
Stage Manager: Devin Wein*
Assistant Stage Manager: Kate Mandracchia*
Assistant Stage Managers: Coralie Tyler, Stephanie Miller
* member, Actors’ Equity Association
“ ‘The Possibilities’ is a lusty play whose characters are animal and desiring; their motivations cannot be readily explained in terms of cold reason. Words, as ever, fall short of fully communicating human experience.”
—Exeunt Magazine
“The plays are incredibly visceral, emotional and mythic.”
—Scottish Stage
BRECHT ON BRECHT
DIRECTED BY JIM PETOSA
A theatrical collage, culled from the writings of Bertolt Brecht.
Assembled from his works by George Tabori.
Jake Murphy*
Christine Hamel*
Carla Martinez*
Harrison Bryan*
Sebastian LaPointe
Miguel Castillo
Ashley Michelle
Olivia Christie
Musical Director and Pianist: Ronnie Romano
Stage Manager: Alex Williamson*
Assistant Stage Manager: Jade Doina*
Assistant Stage Managers: Madeline Ciocci, Joey Hernandez
Set Design: Hallie Zieselman
Lighting Design: Joe Cabrera
Costume Design: Annie Ulrich
* member, Actors’ Equity Association
“…a smart and trenchant collage of excerpts from writings by German playwright-poet Bertolt Brecht and songs he cowrote with composers Kurt Weill and Hanns Eisler.”
—The Boston Globe
“…a seamless, emotionally rich performance artfully sculpted by director Jim Petosa.”
—WBUR
