Starring:Veronica Barron, Margaret Ann Brady, Mike Budwey, Mauro Canepa, Tony Dangerfield, Bill Doscher, Lina M. Echeverri, Marcela Jaramillo, Maria Isabel Molina, Danielle Muehlen, Vladimir Noel, Lorna Nogueira, Ela Quezada, Scarlett Redmond, Juan G. Santos, Chelsea Schmidt, Susan Shrand, Andres Rey Solorzano, Stephen Turner
Directed by Danielle Fauteux Jacques
Assistant Director: Paul S. Benford-Bruce
Set Design: Emily Nichols, Sound Design: Aaron K. Mack
Costume Design: Irem Secil Reel,
Choreographer: Carrie Ann Quinn
Stage Manager: Freya Grunden, Park Manager: Keith Trickett
ASM: Alysa Escobar, ASM/Props: Natalie R. Bader
House Managers: Carol Bortman, Eli Bortman, Clairemise Montero, Richard Richards, Ida Rudolph
Apollinaire in the Park 2009
July 8-25 • Mary O'Malley Park • FREE!
English: Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday
Spanish: Viernes, Domingo
The Wedding on the Eiffel Tower by Jean Cocteau,
and other absurdities of Love.
Join us for Apollinaire's 7th summer of FREE bilingual theater in the park. Performances run July 8-25 at 7:30, in English on Wed. Thurs. & Sat. and Spanish on Fri. & Sun.
Using a singular sense of comedy, symbolism, and satire, The Wedding on the Eiffel Tower serves up what Cocteau describes as “the miraculous poetry of daily life.”
Also on the bill are Jack or the Submission by Eugene Ionesco and Humulus the Mute by Jean Anouilh.
Jean Cocteau was a poet, novelist, dramatist, playwright and filmmaker, and a friend and collaborator of Guillaume Apollinaire (our namesake). Best know for his films Beauty and the Beast and Orpheus, Cocteau received numerous awards and honors including election to the prestigious Academie Francaise.
Eugene Ionesco, an internationally renowned playwright and absurdist master, profoundly altered the face of modern drama. He wrote more than 20 plays, including The Bald Soprano, The Chairs, and Rhinoceros, and was elected a member of the French Academy.
Jean Anouilh observed both the lighter and darker sides of life with an essentially rueful wit. His characteristic heroes are essentially rebels, revolting in the name of an inner ideal of purity against compromise with the immoral demands of family, social position, or their past. Among his best know works are Antigone and Thieves' Carnival.
