OCTC's Oak Island Players present Durang by the DOZEN featuring 12 ACTORS in 12 PLAYS

11/21-11/22 @ 7 PM

by Bernie Hale

Owensboro, KY (11/21/2019) — Owensboro Community & Technical College's Oak Island Players present Durang by the DOZEN featuring 12 ACTORS in 12 PLAYS. The plays featured are from the comedic collection "Naomi in the Living Room and Other Short Plays" by Christopher Durang. They will be presented on Thursday, November 21 and Friday, November 22 at 7 p.m. The production will be in Blandford Lecture Hall, located in the Humanities building on the main campus at 4800 New Hartford Road. Donations will be accepted to support the theatre program.

Below is an outline of each play with the cast.

DESIRE, DESIRE, DESIRE

Is set in New Orleans and is a parody of A Streetcar Named Desire, with bits of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Mamet and Night, Mother and Iceman. The actors are Madelyn Loyd, Caleb Rush, Matthew Golden, Emma Strain, Emily Chandler, Court Lewis, Cassidy Teagle, and Kobe Shrewsberry.

DMV TYRANT

Is set in a division of motor vehicles office featuring Matthew Golden and Rachel Simmons as the actors.

NAOMI IN THE LIVING ROOM

Is set in Naomi's living room and welcomes her son and daughter-in-law as guests. Cast includes Emma Strain, Addison Kilgore, and Emily Chandler.

MEDEA

This play was co-authored by Durang and Wendy Wasserstein. Medea and her chorus of three women try to figure out if it's appropriate to kill your children to punish your husband. Set in Greece, 431 B.C.E. The actors are Rachel Simmons, Madelyn Loyd, Emma Strain, Kobe Shrewsberry, Matthew Golden, Seth Hammons, and Erik Scheidegger.

ONE MINUTE PLAY

A young man shares his thoughts with a cheerful young woman in this play featuring Cassidy Teagle and Caleb Rush.

FUNERAL PARLOR

Set in a funeral parlor where an unsuspecting widow is accosted by an inappropriate guest. The actors are Kobe Shrewsberry and Seth Hammons.

KITTY THE WAITRESS

This story is set at a restaurant on a tropical island and features Mr. O'Brien and a seductive waitress. The cast includes Rachel Simmons, Court Lewis, Cassidy Teagle, Erik Scheidegger, Madelyn Loyd, and Addison Kilgore.

CANKER SORES AND OTHER DISTRACTIONS

Set in a restaurant, a divorced couple attempts reconciliation over dinner. Featured players include Addison Kilgore, Emily Chandler, and Emily Strain.

1-900-DESPERATE

A young woman is nagged by her mother about her empty love life. She calls a romance line and finds only other women and one young man in the discussion. The cast: Kobe Shrewsberry, Matthew Golden, Emily Chandler, Madelyn Loyd, Erik Scheidegger, and Caleb Rush.

AUNT DAN MEETS THE MADWOMAN OF CHAILLOT

The story is a discussion with Aunt Dan, the title character of Wallace Shawn's Aunt Dan and the Lemon, and Giradoux' Madwoman of Chaillot and takes place in the Madwoman's cellar. Kobe Shrewsberry plays the Madwoman, and Cassidy Teagle is Aunt Dan.

NOT MY FAULT

This is play originally written for school audiences, to trigger discussions about addiction and denial. The cast includes: Addison Kilgore, Rachel Simmons, Madelyn Loyd, and Erik Scheidegger.

THE HARDY BOYS AND THE MYSTERY OF WHERE BABIES COME FROM

Frank and Joe Hardy change sweaters a lot and look cute. The word "sleuthing" excites them and they're off to investigate what it means that Nancy Drew has "a bun in the oven." The play features Matthew Golden, Addison Kilgore, Emma Strain, and Court Lewis.

All the plays are authored by Christopher Durang and "Medea" was co-authored with Wendy Wasserstein. Produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc. 440 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10016.

Christopher Durang

Durang has an MFA from the Yale School of Drama. Early in his career, he won a Guggenheim, a Rockefeller, the CBS Playwriting Fellowship, the Lecompte du Nouy Foundation grant, and the Kenyon Festival Theatre Playwriting Prize. In 1995 he won the prestigious three-year Lila Wallace Readers Digest Award; as part of his grant, he ran a writing workshop for adult children of alcoholics. Since 1994 he has been co-chair with Marsha Norman of the Playwriting Program at the Juilliard School in Manhattan. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild Council.

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