Melancholy Play
by Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Ken Prestininzi
November 8-11 & 15-18, 2007
Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 8 PM and Sundays at 2 PM
Leeds Theatre
Conversation with Sarah Ruhl
5:30 PM, November 15, 2008
Leeds Theatre
Brown Theatre presents Melancholy Play, a comedy by MacArthur-winning playwright (and Brown alum) Sarah Ruhl.
Tilly’s melancholy is of an exquisite quality. She turns her melancholy into a sexy thing, and every stranger she meets falls in love with her. One day, inexplicably, Tilly becomes happy, and wreaks havoc on the lives of her paramours. Frances, Tilly’s hairdresser, becomes so melancholy that she turns into an almond. It is up to Tilly to get her back.
CAST LIST:
Frank: A tailor.................................................. Byron Asher ‘08
Tilly: A bank teller............................................ Sarah Tolan-Mee ‘09
Frances: A hairdresser...................................... Phoebe Neidhardt ‘09
Joan: A British nurse......................................... Katherine Cooper ‘09
Lorenzo the Unfeeling: A psychiatrist................. Patrick Harrison ‘08
Julian: A cello player......................................... Colin Baker ‘08
Sarah Ruhl’s Plays include The Clean House (Pulitzer Prize Finalist, 2005; The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, 2004); Passion Play, a cycle (The Fourth Freedom Forum Playwriting Award from The Kennedy Center, a Helen Hayes Awards nomination for best new play); Dead Man’s Cell Phone; Melancholy Play; Eurydice; Orlando and Late: a cowboy song. Her plays have been produced at Lincoln Center Theater, Goodman Theatre, Arena Stage, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, South Coast Repertory Theater, Yale Rep., Berkeley Rep., The Wilma Theater, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Madison Rep. and the Piven Theatre, among others. Her plays have also been produced in London, Germany, Australia, Canada and Israel, and have been translated into Polish, Russian, Spanish, Norwegian, Korean and German. Originally from Chicago, Ms. Ruhl received her M.F.A. from Brown University where she studied with Paula Vogel. In 2003, she was the recipient of the Helen Merrill Emerging Playwrights Award and the Whiting Writers’ Award. She is a member of 13P and New Dramatists and recently won the MacArthur Fellowship