BRAINPEOPLE

BRAINPEOPLE

June 25 – July 26, 2009
  • By José Rivera
  • Directed by Catherine Tripp
  • THE DAVIS LAB THEATRE at Georgetown University’s Royden B. Davis, S.J. Performing Arts Center

A wealthy woman invites two strangers to join her in a strange feast commemorating the death of her parents. Mayannah has done this every year but her dark purpose remains unclear. All that will change tonight when two damaged souls find their way to her table. Taking place in a not-so-distant future, the sounds of a war-torn Los Angeles fill the air. Tensions rise, true colors are revealed and the main course is not the only thing with claws.


STAGE MANAGED BY Alex Aki and John Newman(Asst. Stage Manager)
WITH Elissa Goetschius (Dramaturg), Kate Lucibella (Technical Director) and Tracy Wertheimer (Asst. Lighting Designer)

SEASON 9 is sponsored in part by generous contributions from The Dobranski Foundation and Pete Miller & Sara Cormeny.

“Director Catherine Tripp has accomplished a vivid work – disorderly and feverish but making it seem quite plausible. Here is an unconventional journey within the Latin magical realism genre toward an unexpectedly optimistic final chronicle of three women’s search for love and trust.”

Potomac Stages

FEATURING

Regina Aquino
Monalisa Arias
Amanda Thickpenny

Designers

Set Justine Light
Costumes Lynly Saunders
Lighting Sam Kitchel
Sound Neil McFadden

STAFF

Stage Manager Alex Aki
ASM John Newman
Dramaturg Elissa Goetschius
Technical Director Kate Lucibella
Asst. Lighting Designer Tracy Wertheimer

PRODUCERS

Randy Baker
Jenny McConnell Frederick

MEDIA

PRESS

“When a woman offers two strangers $20,000 to dine with her for an evening, there’s naturally got to be a catch. But in Jose Rivera’s Brainpeople, being given a thoughtful, intimate staging by Rorschach Theatre Company, none of the cliche scenarios and hypotheticals that may have popped into the mind apply to what’s about to happen to this trio of women from disparate, if equally desperate backgrounds.”
DCist
“The kind of challenge that Rorschach Theatre loves, of course. The company’s pattern has been to embrace dense, intellectually aggressive material”
Washington Post
“..the story comes together marvelously and each actress rises to the occasion.”
DC Theatre Scene