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CYCLE 6: HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE LAST FIFTY YEARS (September-October 2013)
Since we've been focusing on classical text over the past few months, Hunger & Thirst members decided to center this cycle around modern works. We selected our favorite plays from each decade over the past fifty years.
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THE HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES by John Guare 
September 10th, 2013
"I feel I only got about this much life left in me, Bananas. I got to use it. These are my peak years. I got to take this chance. You stay in your room. You're crying. All the time. Ronnie's gone now. This is not a creative atmosphere...Bananas, I'm too old to be a young talent." 
                                                   ~ Artie, Act I
Participating Actors: 
Britannie Bond (Bananas/Head Nun)
Sarah Hankins (Bunny/MP)
Jordan Kaplan (Artie)
Patricia Lynn (Ronnie/Little Nun)
Katey Parker (Corrinna/Second Nun/Billy)
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Sarah Hankins as Bunny and Jordan Kaplan as Artie
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Patricia Lynn as Little Nun and Katey Parker as Billy
THE HEIDI CHRONICLES by Wendy Wasserstein 
September 16th, 2013
"I don't blame the ladies in the locker room for how I feel. I don't blame any of us. We're all concerned, intelligent, good women. It's just that I feel stranded. And I thought the whole point was that we wouldn't feel stranded. I thought the point was we were all in this together." 
                                   ~ Heidi, Act II, Scene 4
Participating Actors:
Mary C. Davis  (Jill, Molly, Lisa, April)
Natalie Hegg (Susan, Mark, Steve)
Jordan Kaplan (Scoop, Betsy)
Patricia Lynn (Heidi Act I, Denise)
Alana Rader  (Fran, Heidi Act II)
John Tracey  (Peter, Becky)

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Natalie Hegg as Susan, John Tracey as Peter, and Mary C. Davis as April.
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John Tracey as Peter, Mary C. Davis as April, and Alana Rader as Heidi
THREE TALL WOMEN by Edward Albee
September 24th, 2013
Participating Actors:
Judith Ingber (B)
Emily Kitchens (A)
Patricia Lynn (C)
"What are you, twenty-something? Haven't you figured it out yet? You take a breath in...you let it out. The first one you take in you're upside down and they slap you into it. The last one...well, the last one you let it all out...and that's it. You start...and then you stop." ~ B, Act I

BRIEF ENCOUNTER by Noel Coward, adapted by Emma Rice
October 3rd,  2013
"Please know this--please know that you will be with me--far away into the future. Time will wear down the agony of not seeing you, bit by bit the pain will go--but the loving you and the memory of you won't ever go--please know that."
                                           ~ Alec, Scene 5
Participating Actors: 
Heather McDevitt Barton (Beryl/Hermione)
Jordan Kaplan (Stanley/Bobby/Johnnie)
Daniel Johnsen (Fred/Albert/Stephen)
Patricia Lynn (Laura)
Ralph Petrarca (Alec/Billy)
Eli Sibley (Myrtle/Margaret/Mary)
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Eli Sibley as Myrtle and Jordan Kaplan as Stanley
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Heather McDevitt Barton as Beryl and Daniel Johnsen as Albert
VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE by Christopher Durang 
October 9th, 2013
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Kevin Paul Smith as Spike and Natalie Hegg as Masha
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Jordan Kaplan as Vanya and Patricia Lynn as Nina
"I love to look at the pond. I love the wild turkeys who wander about the property, I like learning they're so awkward that they sleep in trees but repeatedly fall out of them. I identify with them. I often fall out of my bed, thrashing about in my restless sleep. I am a wild turkey. I am a wild turkey." 
                                           ~ Sonia, Act I 
Participating Actors:
Mary C. Davis (Cassandra)
Natalie Hegg (Masha)
Jordan Kaplan (Vanya)
Lauren Lubow (Sonia)
Patricia Lynn (Nina)
Kevin Paul Smith (Spike)

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