BEHOLD!

BEHOLD!

May 31 – June 26, 2005
  • by James Hesla
  • Directed by Randy Baker
  • World Premiere
  • THE SANCTUARY THEATRE at Casa Del Pueblo Calvary Methodist Church

Anna Tingle’s Box of Prophecy is missing. Palamino, a circus sideshow barker and the proprietor of the “Palace of the Pequliar,” has just lost it. He’s pretty sure he left it at the dry cleaners, but now there is a washed up Sea Captain behind the counter, offering a ticking replacement for the box. It has actually fallen into the hands of an unbalanced dry cleaning attendant who is being pursued by the singularly obsessed Angosta Raya, a part-time psychic and a self-proclaimed Woman Of Mystery. Also caught up in this quest is a mid-western couple on vacation, two very drunk hotel bellhops and a waitress who is having the longest night of her life. And then there’s the Mexican Bishop…

Their journeys take them across the lost highways of America – through tiki bars and forgotten motels, from Boca Raton, Florida to Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, all converging on a magical beach on the Sea of Cortez where the mysteries of Anna Tingle’s Box of Prophecy will finally be revealed.

BEHOLD! was sponsored in part by Pete Miller & Sara Cormeny

“BEHOLD! is an Everlasting Gobstopper of a play: it goes on and on, with flavor following flavor in a stream of sweetness. It’s tinged with magic. Director Randy Baker and the rest of the RORSCHACH crew have created a tightknit, perfectly synchronized carnival of a show.”

Washington City Paper

FEATURING

Cecil Baldwin
Andy Brownstein
Liz Chomko
Tim Getman
Jason Linkins
Hugh T. Owen
Jenny Morris
Kerri Rambow
Shane Wallis
Grady Weatherford

Designers

Set Sara Nelson
Lighting Raquel Davis
Costumes Yvette Ryan
Sound Matthew Frederick
Props Debra Kim Sivigny

STAFF

Stage Manager Debbi Arseneaux
ASM Jenny Byrd 

PRODUCERS

Randy Baker
Jenny McConnell Frederick

MEDIA

PRESS

“Sharp direction… a cast of young performers who put a great deal of energy and intensity into their rather bizarre characters… it is always intriguing and frequently entertaining.”
Potomac Stages
“Director Randy Baker and his design team transport us back to the feel good days of Route 66 with an actual bit of highway down the middle of the staging area. Signifying the unknown roads yet to be traveled, this highway has all the sideshow attractions, dilapidated motels, “snak” shops, and carefree oddities of the original. 60’s beach music adds to the feel and beat of the production as crab men, Siamese twins and 18″ penises offer themselves up for our guilty viewing pleasure and mesmerized gullibility. Mr. Baker keeps the pace fast, even with constant scenic changes, and the jokes are delivered to draw the audience into the play’s theatre-in-the-round proceedings. Don’t be surprised to be offered a cocktail or handed a walking stick at some point.”
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