Romance

Written by David Mamet
Directed by Collin Warren

Photo by Bruce Lawson

SYNOPSIS

"Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet's Romance is an uproarious, take-no-prisoners courtroom comedy that gleefully lampoons everyone from lawyers and judges, to Arabs and Jews, to gays and chiropractors. It's hay fever season, and in a courtroom a judge is popping antihistamines. He listens to the testimony of a Jewish chiropractor, who's a liar, according to his anti-Semitic defense attorney. The prosecutor, a homosexual, is having a domestic squabble with his lover, who shows up in court in a leopard-print thong. And all the while, a Middle East peace conference is taking place. Masterfully wielding the argot of the courtroom, David Mamet creates a world in microcosm in which shameless fawning, petty prejudices and sheer caprice hold sway, and the noble apparatus of law and order degenerates into riotous profanity." - Wall Street Journal

REVIEWS

"...this show is worth seeing (except by anyone easily offended). The Vertigo cast knows where the humor lies and exploits it with their usual gusto. Buckley, in particular, brings a heightened, endearing energy to a smaller role, and Lyons is worth the price of admission alone for his surprisingly complex, manically quixotic performance as a loopy, expansive, shameless judge..." - The Oregonian

"...Lyons' tremendous performance is bolstered by a predictably excellent cast, who, under the brisk direction of Collin Warren, breeze through Mamet's script in just under two hours." - The Portland Mercury

CAST

The Prosecutor... Gary Norman*
The Defendant... Tom Moorman*
The Defense Attorney... Nathan Gale*
The Judge... Garland Lyons*
The Bailiff... Bruce Lawson
Bernard... Ben Buckley

DESIGN AND PRODUCTION

Scenic Designer... Chad Bianchi
Costume Designer... Mary Rochon
Lighting Designer... Jamie Rea
Sound Designer... Collin Warren
Props Master... Bruce Lawson

Stage Manager... Nicole Gladwin
Fight Choreographer... Tom Moorman*
Production Manager... Tom Moorman*
Artistic Supervisor... Darius Pierce*

Technical Director... Rusty Weise
Master Electrician... Jeff Woods

* Member of Theatre Vertigo

Poster Design by Elizabeth Young