Valparaiso
written by Don DeLillo
directed by Jesse Young
“Because this is the subject. This is the object. We take every stray moment and follow it to the last dripping shiver. Because it’s more, it’s less, it’s better, it’s faster, it’s true.”
Michael Majeski boards a plane bound for Valparaiso, Indiana but ends up in Valparaiso, Chile instead. What was to be an ordinary business trip has turned into a major misadventure, and Michael relives his experience in a series of intense and sometimes surreal interviews.
There are problems with the story Michael tells, a certain touchy matter involving his wife and a dark spectacle in the making as he enters the interrogation chamber of the daytime talk show, in which nothing remains unseen, nothing is left unsaid. “A fascinating study of celebrity and its dark path to desperation.” – The Boston Herald (synopsis courtesy of Dramatists Play Service Inc.)
Performing August 25 – September 23, 2006
Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 8:00 pm
in the Arena Theatre at Theater! Theatre!
CAST
Michael Majeski…Mario Calcagno*
Livia Majeski…Amy Newman*
Delfina Treadwell…Ritah Parrish
Teddy Hodwell…Gary Norman*
Male Interviewer…Nathan Gale*
Female Interviewer…Joy Medeiros
The Camera Crew/Chorus…Lauren Bair, Breese Pickle, Maesie Speer
DESIGN AND PRODUCTION
Production Managers…Tom Moorman* Keith Cable* and Darius Pierce*
Stage Manager…Michelle Jazuk
Dramaturg…Kim Crow
Set Designer…Jesse Blanchard
Lighting Designer…Adam Saucy
Sound Designer…Rory Stitt
Costume Designer…Tatiana Sakuri
Properties/Video Designer…Solomon Burbridge
* Current member of the Theatre Vertigo acting ensemble