Bedroom Farce

Oct 16 to Nov 16
by Alan Ayckbourn

"A skilled cast at Stage West mines a multitude of laughs from this interplay of four couples..."
– Nancy Churnin, Dallas News

Bedroom Farce runs
October 16 through November 16
Thursdays 7:30
Fridays & Saturdays 8:00
Sundays 3:00

From a long-time Stage West favorite, and one of the great modern playwrights. Delia and Ernest are the parents of Trevor, who is married to Susannah, but used to date Jan, who is now married to Nick. So when Kate and Malcolm invite the two young couples over for a housewarming party, the stage is set for hysteria and heartbreak. Four couples, three bedrooms - what could possibly go wrong? Antics arise in this contemporary comedy about the uproarious and touching paths we tread when relationships begin to unravel.

Delia - Georgia Clinton*
Ernest - Ray Gestaut*
Nick - Jeff Wittekiend**
Jan - Ashlee Elizabeth Bashore**
Malcolm - Mitchell Stephens**
Kate - Audrey Ahern**
Trevor - John Forkner**
Susannah - Allison Pistorius*

*Member, Actors Equity Association **Equity Membership Candidate

Audrey Ahern

First appearance at Stage West.
Work outside Stage West includes:  Hero in Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare Dallas), Adele in The Ghost Sonata (Undermain Theatre), Alex Lasko in Language Games (Frontera Fest), Rodney Faffer in Mother Goose (Theatre Britain), Claire Zachanassian in The Visit, Elizabeth Proctor in The Crucible (both West Virginia University).

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Ashlee Elizabeth Bashore

First appearance at Stage West.
Work outside Stage West includes:  Jane in This (Margo Jones Theatre), Christmas Past/Sister-in-Law in A Christmas Carol (Dallas Theater Center), Miriam Aarons in The Women (Greer Garson Theatre), Kost in Cabaret (Prince Music Theatre), Georgeanne in Five Women Wearing the Same Dress (Randall Stage).

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Georgia Clinton

Work at Stage West includes:  Molly Ivins in Red Hot Patriot, Blanche in Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bound, Arkadina in The Seagull.
Work outside Stage West includes:  Princess Conti in La Bete, Frances in Light Up the Sky, Ghislaine in The Waltz of the Toreadors (Theatre Three), Catherine in And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little 

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John Forkner

First appearance at Stage West.
Work outside Stage includes:  Kent/Pascal et al in The Nosemaker’s Apprentice, Todd in Death Tax (both Amphibian Stage Productions), Marvin in Guys on Ice (Greater Lewisville Community Theatre), Polonius in Hamlet, Montjoy in Henry V (both American Globe Theatre), Dickens/Cratchit/Marley in A Christmas Carol (Henry Street Settlement).

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Ray Gestaut

Work at Stage West includes:  Anselme in The Miser, Father/Sailor in Monster, Steve in A Streetcar Named Desire.
Work outside Stage West includes:  Randolph in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer  (Casa Manana), Jack Worthing in Porcelain (Kitchen Dog), Bob Dooley in Tough Choices for a New Century (Echo Theatre), Dude in Texas (Paul Green Theatre in Canyon), Foreman in The Lady Revealed (Theatre Three).

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Mitchell Stephens

Work at Stage West includes:  Andrew the Waiter in Beyond Therapy.
Work outside Stage West includes:  Lucius/Strato in Julius Caesar, Antonio in The Merchant of Venice, Peter Simple in The Merry Wives of Windsor (all Trinity Shakespeare Festival), Nick Potter in Holiday, Angelo in Measure for Measure, Leon Czolgosz in Assassins, Ronnie in House of Blue Leaves (all Theatre TCU).

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Jeff Wittekiend

First appearance at Stage West.
Work outside Stage West includes:  Steve in Hope & Gravity (Circle Theatre), Sid Sawyer/Doc Robinson in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (WaterTower Theatre), Ronnie in Out of Order, Christopher in The Mousetrap, (both Theatre Britain), Odysseus in The Odyssey (Baylor University).

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Director - Jim Covault
Stage Manager - Peggy Kruger-O'Brien
Technical Director - Nate Davis
Set Design - Jim Covault
Costume Design - Michael Robinson/Dallas Costume Shoppe
Lighting Design - Michael O’Brien
Props and Set Décor - Lynn Lovett
Fight Choreography - Jakie Cabe

 

Alan Ayckbourn is a prolific and highly respected playwright, sometimes called “the Moliere of the middle classes,” whose works (more than 70 full plays, and over 20 other revues and plays for children) have spanned some forty years. Artistic Director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough from 1972 to 2009, he also spent two years as visiting director at London’s National Theatre.  More than half his plays have been produced in the West End or at the National Theatre; at one point, Ayckbourn held the record for having the most professional productions of his work being performed simultaneously in the West End.  His work is characterized by his constant willingness to experiment with stage time and space, which led critic Michael Billington to label him as one of the few British playwrights to be constantly pushing the envelope of theatre.  In 1997, he became the first playwright to be knighted since Terence Rattigan.  Ayckbourn suffered a stroke in 2006, but later that year was directing again at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, and in 2010, he received both Tony and Olivier Special Lifetime Achievement Awards.  His most recent works are Arrivals and Departures (2013) and Roundelay (2014).