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 C L O U D  9

W r i t t e n   b y   C a r y l   C h u r c h i l l

  Di r e c t e d   b y   C a r l y   D .   W e c k s t e i n


"Director Carly D. Weckstein's accomplished revival forgoes the niceties of a full production design ...while her pitch-perfect ensemble...delivers both the play's riotous burlesque and its potent poignancy with equal aplomb."
- Bill Raden, LA Weekly




S T A R R I N G


Jaymie Bellous......................................Edward/Betty
Elitia Daniels.........................................Maud/Victoria
Kaitlin Huwe.........................Ellen/Mrs. Saunders/Lin
Gerard Marzilli............................Harry Bagley/Martin
Katelyn Myer........................................Edward/Betty
Thadeus Shafer...........................Clive/Cathy/Soldier
Beau Smith.........................................Joshua/Gerry


Musical Arrangements by Kaitlin Huwe & The Ensemble

Stage Manager...........................................................Janet Leon
Assistant Director/Costume Designer..............Samantha Kellie
Lighting Designer................................................Michelle Stann

Publicity Team.......................Julie Henderson, Hilary Schwartz
Fundraising Team...........Vanessa Ledesma, Lindsay LaVanchy
Online Team....................................Rebecca Kay, Elitia Daniels

PROMO PHOTOS BY EMILIO ORTEGA ALDRICH
L.A. Weekly Review:

"The world is a far different place from 1979, when playwright Caryl Churchill's postmodernist blast at frustrated sexual desire and Western colonialism premiered. But if the play's satirical, gender-switched mash-up of Victorian colonial repression with modern sexual mores no longer carries quite the transgressive bite of former years, it has lost none of its comic or political teeth. Act 1 takes the form of a classic bedroom farce with a circa-1880s family in British colonial Africa hypocritically violating every sacred marital vow and sexual taboo under the old Empire's sun. Act 2 shifts from Pythonesque satire to British neorealism, ages the family 25 years and transports them to a more liberated 1980s London, where they are finally free to pursue their happiness. Director Carly D. Weckstein's accomplished revival forgoes the niceties of a full production design -- period and setting are left to Samantha Kellie's capable and colorful costumes -- while her pitch-perfect ensemble (led by Thaddeus Shafer's hilarious Victorian patriarch Clive, and Jaymie Bellous and a dazzling Katelyn Myer taking turns as Clive's clueless wife, Betty) delivers both the play's riotous burlesque and its potent poignancy with equal aplomb."

-Bill Raden, LA Weekly


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  • OUR MANIFESTO
  • MEET THE ILLYRIANS
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  • History
    • The Red Letter Project
    • Hot 'N' Throbbing
    • Othello
    • 99 Ways to Fuck a Swan
    • Odessa [The World Premiere]
    • How I Learned to Drive
    • Two Girls One Bard
    • The Taming of the Shrew
    • Woyzeck
    • Holiness - Workshop
    • CLOUD 9
    • Macbeth
    • Twelfth Night (or What You Will)