Follow the awakenings of one Victorian family in this hilarious look at racial, sexual, and personal politics. Set in colonial Africa and modern-day Britain, Caryl Churchill’s landmark play Cloud Nine is about relationships — between women and men, men and men, and women and women. It is about sex, work, mothers, Africa, sex, power, children, grandmothers, sex, politics, money, Queen Victoria, and sex. "It is all passion and throbbing bodices, heat and parasols, over the top dialogue, and very, very funny." - Curtain Up

CAST

Maude/Lin... Kerry Ryan*
Joshua/Cathy... Joel Harmon*
Ellen/Betty... Jane Fellows*
Young Edward... Robert Wyllie*
Mrs. Saunders/Victoria... Melissa Whitney
Harry/Martin... JR Wickman*
Clive/Edward... Andy Lee-Hillstrom*
Betty/Gerry... James Sharinghousen

DESIGN AND PRODUCTION

Scenic Designer... Larry Larsen
Lighting Designer... Jeff Woods
Costume Designer... Morgan Shanafelt
Sound Designer... Elizabeth Young
Props Designer... Alisha Flaumenbaum
Dialect Coach... Amanda Soden

Stage Manager... Emily Gregory
Production Manager... Annalise Albright Woods

Technical Director... James Sharinghousen
Master Electrician... Jeff Woods

DIRECTOR BIO

Jon Kretzu is in his 18th season as Associate Artistic Director at Artists Repertory Theatre, where he has directed over 40 productions for the company including the world premieres of Tracy Letts’ Three Sisters, Marc Acito and C.S Whitcomb’s Holidazed, Joseph Fisher’s The Seagull and The New House as well as A Streetcar Named Desire, The History Boys, Othello, Design For Living, All My Sons, Speech and Debate, Orson’s Shadow, The Retreat from Moscow, Mr. Marmalade, Assassins, Humble Boy, Death of a Salesman, Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge, The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?, The Laramie Project, Dinner with Friends, Master Class, Present Laughter, A Question of Mercy, Indiscretions, Keely and Du, Love! Valour! Compassion!, Breaking the Code, Chaps!, The Sea, The Normal Heart, The Destiny of Me, Buried Child, The Artificial Jungle, Three Tall Women (USIA International Tour) and co-directed House and Garden with Allen Nause. Other Portland directing credits include Dracula for Northwest Classical Theatre Company; The Carpetbagger’s Children for Profile Theatre; Guys and Dolls for The Musical Theatre Company; Romeo and Juliet, A Winter’s Tale, Much Ado About Nothing and As You Like It for Tygres Heart Shakespeare Company; Waiting for Vern, Jeffrey, Bent and The Sum of Us for triangle! productions; Broadway Bound and Hay Fever for Portland Repertory Theater; The Importance of Being Earnest for New Rose Theatre; The Mystery of Irma Vep for Storefront Theatre; and Down the Road for the Oregon One-Act Festival. Jon has also directed numerous productions in Seattle, Milwaukee, San Francisco, Chicago and Los Angeles, including Abduction from the Seraglio, Lips Together, Teeth Apart; Sweeney Todd, Wonderful Town, Inventing Van Gogh, The Taming of the Shrew; A Doll’s House; Cloud 9; The Outsiders; Terra Nova; Reckless; Streamers; Private Lives; Arms and The Man; 84 Charing Cross Road, and Frankenstein. Jon was the dramaturg for Portland Repertory Theatre, has served as a guest director and professor at a number of West Coast and Midwest universities, and has worked as an acting coach in Los Angeles, Seattle and Portland. He has also served as the London and New York theater and classical music correspondent for a variety of Northwest newspapers and magazines.

* Member of Theatre Vertigo