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Now entering our fifth production season, DRC is incredibly proud of the thought-provoking works we have produced - that otherwise may never have been seen in Portland. We have been rewarded with critical acclaim and sold-out performances. This success could not have happened without the wonderful patrons who backed our first few years.
The next step is to make our vision continually sustainable by assembling a wider circle of enthusiastic supporters. Become a founding member of the DRC Patron's Club, and we'll remember that you were there with us from the start.
Top: Ian Carlsen, Corey M. Gagne, Christopher Holt
& Matthew Delamater in Equivocation
Middle: Bari Robinson & J.H. Smith III in Topdog/Underdog
Bottom: Casey Turner in My Name Is Rachel Corrie
For less than the cost of three Premium Tickets, get the best reserved seats for each DRC show in the 2014/15 season. (Fully exchangeable, by the way.) Plus perks. You'll receive discount tickets for a companion or comrade, and be invited to sit in on first rehearsals and developmental readings -- where we test-drive new scripts -- and other creative projects and unusual evenings that DRC's cast and crew are fomenting behind the scenes. One more thing: we adore those die-hard theatre mavens who save programs and ticket stubs from fabulous performances, so we'll slip you a signed poster from your favorite show this season. An affordable way to show your support - and you get a nice little deal on tickets, too.
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Sustaining Membership - $200-$499
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Your generosity is impressive. And it fuels our mission to produce fresh, daring, rarely-seen plays year in and year out. May we add to all the above benefits a post-show reception with the cast? You can also look forward to a special DRC Season Gift thanking you for your contribution, and signed posters from all the season productions.
Gold Circle Membership - $500+
(portion tax-deductible)
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Our Angel Members not only believe in DRC's work, but feel called to support the broad, vibrant arts community that makes Maine remarkable. This level of support helps DRC hire the pros - masterful local theatre artists, delighted to ply their craft here in Portland. Angel Members receive Four Premium Tickets to all three productions, get all the above benefits, and are invited to an annual hosted dinner with DRC's Artistic Director and select cast members. Here's hoping you'll be able to spend some quality time as a member of our new theatrical family.
Angel Membership - $1,000+
(portion tax-deductible)
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PATRON'S CLUB READING SERIES – History
TOPDOG /
UNDERDOG
by Suzan-Lori Parks
with Bari Robinson
and J.H. Smith III
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
A 2002 Pulitzer Prize winner, TOPDOG / UNDERDOG is a darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity. The play tells the story of Lincoln and Booth, two brothers whose names were given to them as a joke, foretelling a lifetime of sibling rivalry and resentment. Haunted by the past, the brothers are forced to confront the shattering reality of their future.
Topdog/Underdog photo by Emily Delamater
Georg Büchner's
WOYZECK
directed by Tess Van Horn
with Mariah Bergeron, Matt Delamater,
Christopher Reiling, Nick Schroeder
and Michael Dix Thomas
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Written in the 1830's, Büchner's last work is one of the most performed and influential plays in the German Theatre repertory. It is considered an "unfinished" work, and Lorem Ipsum's (Threepenny Opera, Blood Wedding) Tess Van Horn will give her take on this often interpreted work. The play can be seen as working class tragedy, though it can also be viewed as having another dimension, portraying the perennial tragedy of human jealousy.
Van Horn explains "I want to tighten up the translation, to try and make it as minimal of a cast as possible, with most actors playing multiple characters. I like this idea to heighten the sense of "madness" that the character of Woyzeck slowly slumps into as the story progresses. What is "real" to the character? What is "real" to the audience? Are these characters that keep interacting with Woyzeck real or progressively more and more surreal?"
Woyzeck photo by Emily Delamater
MUD BLUE SKY
by Marisa Wegrzyn
with Leo Hilton, Laura Houck,
Abigail Killeen, Kathleen Kimball
directed by Daniel Burson
Tuesday, June 2, 2015 at 7:30pm
One long night in a grungy chain hotel room near O'Hare Airport is enough to make anyone question their aspirations in life, but for middle-aged flight attendants Beth and Sam, it’s just part of a never-ending layover that goes with the job. Joined by their former colleague, and Beth's 18 year-old pot dealer (dressed for his prom), a somewhat ordinary evening descends into something quite a bit more turbulent. MUD BLUE SKY is a comedy about how the small kindnesses we afford each other can inspire us to grab onto life before it flies by.
by Marisa Wegrzyn
with Leo Hilton, Laura Houck,
Abigail Killeen, Kathleen Kimball
directed by Daniel Burson
Tuesday, June 2, 2015 at 7:30pm
One long night in a grungy chain hotel room near O'Hare Airport is enough to make anyone question their aspirations in life, but for middle-aged flight attendants Beth and Sam, it’s just part of a never-ending layover that goes with the job. Joined by their former colleague, and Beth's 18 year-old pot dealer (dressed for his prom), a somewhat ordinary evening descends into something quite a bit more turbulent. MUD BLUE SKY is a comedy about how the small kindnesses we afford each other can inspire us to grab onto life before it flies by.
FEFU AND HER FRIENDS
by María Irene Fornés
with Deirdre Fulton, Lisa Boucher Hartman, Tarra Haskell
Heather Irish, Caroline O'Connor, Vanessa Romanoff
Casey Turner, Marjolaine Whittlesey
directed by Tess Van Horn
Tuesday, March 10, 2015 at 7:30pm
It’s spring in New England in 1935 when Fefu invites seven of her closest
female friends to her home to rehearse for a presentation for their charity
toward school education. In an absurdist, non-traditional format, Fefu and
her friends explore what they mean to each other, their relationships to the men who control their lives, and how power and control are simultaneously desired and relinquished. María Irene Fornés is a highly-influential and award-winning Cuban-American playwright and director who was a leading figure of the avant garde Off-Off-Broadway movement in the 1960s. Fornés' themes focused on poverty and feminism.
by María Irene Fornés
with Deirdre Fulton, Lisa Boucher Hartman, Tarra Haskell
Heather Irish, Caroline O'Connor, Vanessa Romanoff
Casey Turner, Marjolaine Whittlesey
directed by Tess Van Horn
Tuesday, March 10, 2015 at 7:30pm
It’s spring in New England in 1935 when Fefu invites seven of her closest
female friends to her home to rehearse for a presentation for their charity
toward school education. In an absurdist, non-traditional format, Fefu and
her friends explore what they mean to each other, their relationships to the men who control their lives, and how power and control are simultaneously desired and relinquished. María Irene Fornés is a highly-influential and award-winning Cuban-American playwright and director who was a leading figure of the avant garde Off-Off-Broadway movement in the 1960s. Fornés' themes focused on poverty and feminism.
A Developmental Reading
DEATH WINGS
by Bess Welden
with Kat Moraros and Janice O'Rourke
Tuesday, November 18, 2014 at 7:30pm
Grand is the maker of death wings. Some people call her the crazy bird-lady artist. Her granddaughter Rachel is determined to fly. Some people call her the enigmatic genius scientist. Both women feel certain that the limitations of the human body that keep us grounded can be transcended. But their approaches to solving the problem of flight couldn't be more different.
DEATH WINGS
by Bess Welden
with Kat Moraros and Janice O'Rourke
Tuesday, November 18, 2014 at 7:30pm
Grand is the maker of death wings. Some people call her the crazy bird-lady artist. Her granddaughter Rachel is determined to fly. Some people call her the enigmatic genius scientist. Both women feel certain that the limitations of the human body that keep us grounded can be transcended. But their approaches to solving the problem of flight couldn't be more different.
MADAGASCAR
by J.T. Rogers
with Daniel Noel, Jackie Oliveri & Leslie Trentalange
directed by Whitney Smith
Tuesday, March 11, 2014 at 7:30pm
MADAGASCAR is the haunting story of a mysterious
disappearance that changes three lives forever.
At three different periods in time, three Americans
find themselves alone, in the same hotel room
overlooking the Spanish Steps in Rome.
by J.T. Rogers
with Daniel Noel, Jackie Oliveri & Leslie Trentalange
directed by Whitney Smith
Tuesday, March 11, 2014 at 7:30pm
MADAGASCAR is the haunting story of a mysterious
disappearance that changes three lives forever.
At three different periods in time, three Americans
find themselves alone, in the same hotel room
overlooking the Spanish Steps in Rome.
THE NINA VARIATIONS
by Steven Dietz
with Dan Beaulieu and Christine Penney
directed by Kevin Condardo
Tuesday, June 4, 2013 at 7:30pm
In this funny, fierce and heartbreaking homage to THE SEAGULL, Steven Dietz
puts Chekhov's star-crossed lovers in a room and doesn't let them out. In
forty-three variations on their famous final scene, Nina (a young actress) and
Treplev (a young writer), pit their vibrant wit and soaring passions against
one another in a fast-paced tour de force of romantic entanglement.
by Steven Dietz
with Dan Beaulieu and Christine Penney
directed by Kevin Condardo
Tuesday, June 4, 2013 at 7:30pm
In this funny, fierce and heartbreaking homage to THE SEAGULL, Steven Dietz
puts Chekhov's star-crossed lovers in a room and doesn't let them out. In
forty-three variations on their famous final scene, Nina (a young actress) and
Treplev (a young writer), pit their vibrant wit and soaring passions against
one another in a fast-paced tour de force of romantic entanglement.
GRUESOME PLAYGROUND INJURIES
by Rajiv Joseph
with Kat Moraros and Nathan Speckman
directed by Whitney Smith
Tuesday, April 23, 2013 at 7:30pm
Over the course of 30 years, the lives of Kayleen and Doug intersect at the most bizarre intervals, leading the two childhood friends to compare scars and the physical calamities that keep drawing them together.
by Rajiv Joseph
with Kat Moraros and Nathan Speckman
directed by Whitney Smith
Tuesday, April 23, 2013 at 7:30pm
Over the course of 30 years, the lives of Kayleen and Doug intersect at the most bizarre intervals, leading the two childhood friends to compare scars and the physical calamities that keep drawing them together.
DYING CITY
by Christopher Shinn
with Kat Moraros and Andrew Sawyer
directed by Nathan Speckman
Tuesday, October 30, 2012 at 7:30pm
Christopher Shinn's DYING CITY an intimate play, set in a spare downtown-Manhattan apartment, depicts the role of historic events that transform the lives of three closely observed characters. Infusing his play with references to the war in Iraq and to 9/11 and its aftermath, Shinn explores the loss of a loved one who has died while on military duty in Iraq, and the repercussions of this death on his wife, Kelly, and identical twin brother, Peter.
by Christopher Shinn
with Kat Moraros and Andrew Sawyer
directed by Nathan Speckman
Tuesday, October 30, 2012 at 7:30pm
Christopher Shinn's DYING CITY an intimate play, set in a spare downtown-Manhattan apartment, depicts the role of historic events that transform the lives of three closely observed characters. Infusing his play with references to the war in Iraq and to 9/11 and its aftermath, Shinn explores the loss of a loved one who has died while on military duty in Iraq, and the repercussions of this death on his wife, Kelly, and identical twin brother, Peter.
ENDGAME
by Samuel Beckett
directed by Eryn Colleen Snyder
with Karen Ball, Elizabeth Lardie,
Johnny Speckman and Nate Speckman
Tuesday, June 5, 2012 at 7:30pm
“A few words...from your heart”
A seminal Beckett masterwork, presented here with a slight twist.
Four souls, isolated, alone together – dependant. Beautiful
and captivating. “If I could sleep I might make love. I'd go into
the woods. My eyes would see... the sky, the earth. I'd run, run, they wouldn't catch me...”
by Samuel Beckett
directed by Eryn Colleen Snyder
with Karen Ball, Elizabeth Lardie,
Johnny Speckman and Nate Speckman
Tuesday, June 5, 2012 at 7:30pm
“A few words...from your heart”
A seminal Beckett masterwork, presented here with a slight twist.
Four souls, isolated, alone together – dependant. Beautiful
and captivating. “If I could sleep I might make love. I'd go into
the woods. My eyes would see... the sky, the earth. I'd run, run, they wouldn't catch me...”
TOPDOG /
UNDERDOG
by Suzan-Lori Parks
with Bari Robinson
and J.H. Smith III
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
A 2002 Pulitzer Prize winner, TOPDOG / UNDERDOG is a darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity. The play tells the story of Lincoln and Booth, two brothers whose names were given to them as a joke, foretelling a lifetime of sibling rivalry and resentment. Haunted by the past, the brothers are forced to confront the shattering reality of their future.
Topdog/Underdog photo by Emily Delamater
Georg Büchner's
WOYZECK
directed by Tess Van Horn
with Mariah Bergeron, Matt Delamater,
Christopher Reiling, Nick Schroeder
and Michael Dix Thomas
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Written in the 1830's, Büchner's last work is one of the most performed and influential plays in the German Theatre repertory. It is considered an "unfinished" work, and Lorem Ipsum's (Threepenny Opera, Blood Wedding) Tess Van Horn will give her take on this often interpreted work. The play can be seen as working class tragedy, though it can also be viewed as having another dimension, portraying the perennial tragedy of human jealousy.
Van Horn explains "I want to tighten up the translation, to try and make it as minimal of a cast as possible, with most actors playing multiple characters. I like this idea to heighten the sense of "madness" that the character of Woyzeck slowly slumps into as the story progresses. What is "real" to the character? What is "real" to the audience? Are these characters that keep interacting with Woyzeck real or progressively more and more surreal?"
Woyzeck photo by Emily Delamater
2014/15 PATRON'S CLUB BENEFITS
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Founding Member | Founding Couple | Sustaining Member | Gold Circle Member | Angel Member |
Premium Tickets |
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1 to each 14/15 show (2 total) |
2 to each 14/15 show (4 total) |
2 to each 14/15 show (6 total) |
2 to each 14/15 show (4 total) |
4 to each 14/15 show (12 total) |
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Full Exchange Privileges (subject to availability) |
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Plus 1 Discount Discount ticket(s) for companion. |
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A hosted dinner with the DRC Artistic Director and select cast |
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