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Minna

by Howard Barker
Directed by Nicole Wiesner

Opens: January 2, 2010
Closes: February 13, 2010
Runs: Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 8 pm
$20 (2 for 1 on Thursdays)
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Cast: Kevin Cox, Gary Damico, Geraldine Dulex, John Gray, David A Holcombe, John Kahara, Amber Lageman, Pamela Maurer, Kinga Modjeska, Sadie Rogers, Derek Ryan, and Carl Wisniewski

Set in a mythical world that swings between the 18th Century and the 1950's, Minna is Howard Barker's ferocious view of war and sexual politics.  Minna Von Barnhelm is the light and airy heroine of Lessing's Enlightenment-era comedy, but in Barker's nightmarish world, her single minded pursuit of atrocity compels her to commit atrocity herself. 

Assistant Director: Carolyn Hoerdemann
Stage Manager: Barry Phillip
Choreographer: Lyndsay Kane
Makeup Designer: Zsófia Ötvös
Costume Designer: Beata Pilch
Sound Designer: Jonathan Guillen
Lighting Designer: Richard Norwood
Set Designer: Ewelina Dobiesz
Graphic Design/photos: Michal Janicki
Trap Door Artistic Director: Beata Pilch

About the Director
Nicole has appeared in these productions at the fabulous Trap Door Theatre: Bondage, The Crazy Locomotive (Chicago and NYC), La Ronde, The Homosexual, Ten Tiny Fingers, Nine Tiny Toes, Baal, Automobile Graveyard, The Shoemakers, Quills,Katzelmacher, The Venetian Twins, People Annihilation or My Liver is Senseless, andThe Fourth Sister as well as the title roles in Nana, The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kantand Alice in Bed. Regionally, she has appeared as Mary in Dublin Carol, directed by Amy Morton(Steppenwolf Theatre); Kelly in Dying CIty, directed by Jason Loewith (Next Theatre);  Mary 2 in Passion Play, directed by Mark WIng-Davy (Goodman Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre); Neasa in Shining City, directed by Bob Falls (Goodman Theatre, Huntington Theatre); Madame Chatelet in Great Men of Science, directed by Tracy Letts (Lookingglass Theatre) and Panope in Phedre, directed by JoAnne Akalaitis. She can also be seen in Catherine Sullivan's films Ice Floes of Franz Josef Land and The Chittendens (Tate Modern), and in her theatre pieces in Chicago, NYC, Lyon (L'Opera de Lyon) and Dijon.  Next up, she will reprise her role in Passion Play off-Broadway at Epic Theatre. 

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Horses at the Window

Trap Door Theatre's inventive production of Matei Visniec's Horses at the Window in collaboration with critically acclaimed Romanian director, Radu-Alexandru Nica, will perform as part of the Tenth National Symposium of Theatre in Academe at Washington and Lee University in Lexington Virginia.  A poetic parody of war's long-reaching effects on the home-front, Horses at the Window reflects the central theme of this year's symposium, "Eros and Thanatos; Sexuality, War and Violence."

The work will be observed and discussed by various international academic panelists and students.  The event will take place November 11-15, 2009 at the Washington and Lee University.  The joint event proposes to gather theater scholars, teachers, and practitioners as well as theater activists in an open exchange of ideas and artistic expressions relevant to the main themes.  These joint events also aim to create international collaborations through theater, innovative and life affirming artistic products, and exchanges in a world of crisis and violence.