FAMILY STORIES: A SLAPSTICK TRAGEDY

FAMILY STORIES: A SLAPSTICK TRAGEDY

April 12 - May 10, 2003
  • by Biljana Srbanovic
  • Translated by Rebecca Ann Rugg
  • Directed by Grady Weatherford
  • THE SANCTUARY THEATRE at Casa Del Pueblo Calvary Methodist Church

Emerging from the wreckage of a bombed out Yugoslavian playground, a group of four children is caught “playing house.” Through a brilliant marriage of slapstick and tragedy, Family Stories creates a world in which children and the games they play reveal the effects of a complex ethnic conflict that has haunted Europe for a thousand years.

FAMILY STORIES: A SLAPSTICK TRAGEDY was sponsored in part by The Embassy of Serbia and Montenegro and Peter Miller & Sara Cormeny

“Rorschach Theatre has bravely brought to stage a production that offers, without any trace of sentimentality, all the banality, boredom and terror of war.”

The Washington Post

FEATURING

Maggie Glauber
Sarah Painter
Andrew Price
Mark Sullivan

Designers

Set Matt Soule
Lighting David C. Ghatan
Costumes Denise Umland
Sound Mark Anduss
Props Suzen Mason

STAFF

AD/Dramaturg Rahaleh Nassri 

PRODUCERS

Randy Baker
Jenny McConnell Frederick

MEDIA

PRESS

“In Rorschach Theatre’s hyperkinetic production, they careen madly over Matt Soule’s multi-leveled set, slamming into the corrugated tin walls and hanging from scaffolding as they play out domestic dramas gone nuclear. In the surreal world of these war-damaged Peanuts, where grownups are people who dissemble, murder, betray or die, nearly every tiff ends with spilled blood or scorched flesh.”
Washington City Paper