Apollinaire Theatre Company

"Apollinaire fills ‘pool (no water)’ with imaginative life"
-Boston Globe- click here to read full review

pool (no water) is presented in an intimate studio setting.
Audience limited to 18 per performance!

Recommended for mature audiences: language & nudity.

A play about the perils of making art and/or making friends.

"terrific...Mr. Ravenhill’s writing has a
hypnotic beauty" -NY Times

April 13-May 4, 2013
Tickets $25. See both for just $35.

Chelsea Theatre Works, 189 Winnisimmet St., Chelsea.
Click for Directions or call 617-887-2336

Performances will be followed by a Reception
with the actors in the Gallery.

Running time: apx. 60 minutes

A famous artist invites old friends to her luxurious new home for a long awaited reunion. But the celebration comes to an abrupt end when the host suffers a horrific accident. An almost unthinkable plan starts to take shape: could her suffering be the group’s next work of art?

Published 10 years after his critically-acclaimed Shopping and F*cking, this piece by Mark Ravenhill is an unflinching look at the vulnerability of friendship, the power of resentment, and a deep-seated yearning to create something truly memorable.

"Its sneaky, almost guilty-pleasure appeal is linked to our natural identification with these attractive, articulate young men and women as they coolly rationalize behavior that, seen from the outside, might look more than a little monstrous."
-NY Times

Starring: Ronald Lacey, Chris LaVoie,
Brian McCarthy, Alison McFadden, Lorna Nogueira

Directed by Danielle Fauteux Jacques

Mark Ravenhill is an internationally acclaimed playwright whose first full-length play, Shopping and Fucking, opened at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs in 1996. His more recent works include Mother Clap's Molly House (National Theatre, 2001); Product (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, 2005); The Cut (Donmar Warehouse, London, 2006); Citizenship (National Theatre, 2006); pool (no water) (Lyric Hammersmith, 2006); Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat (Edinburgh Festival, 2007); Over There (Royal Court / Schaubühne, Berlin, 2009); A Life in Three Acts co-written and performed with Bette Bourne (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh / Konninklijke Schouwburg, The Hague / Soho Theatre, London, 2009 and St Ann's Warehouse, New York, 2010); Nationadapt. from the Terry Pratchett novel (National Theatre, 2009); Ten Plagues, a liberetto for a new opera by Conor Mitchell (Royal Court, 2010 / Traverse Theatre 2011); Ghost Story (Playhouse: Live, Sky Arts, Riverside Studios 2010); The Coronation of Poppea a liberetto co-written with Alex Silverman (OperaUpClose, Kings Head Theatre, 2011). Mark is currently under commission to the RSC and Hampstead Theatre and is writing a new libretto for the Norwegian National Opera. His plays are performed all over the world.

April 5-May 4, 2013

Tickets $25. See both for just $35.

Chelsea Theatre Works, 189 Winnisimmet St., Chelsea.
Click for Directions or call 617-887-2336

Performances will be followed by a Reception
with the actors in the Gallery.

Running time: apx. 90 minutes

A ferocious satire in which a society dealing with its own form of PTSD adopts out traumatized veterans in a manner somewhere between the ASPCA and the Foster Parents Plan.

Well-intentioned, high-strung parents Walter and Marjorie love Luther to a fault. But should they have brought him to the office party?

Luther: Matthew Sergi
Marjorie: Danielle Fauteux Jacques
Walter: Ronald Lacey
Tom/Officer James: Woody Gaul
Morris: Chris LaVoie
Phil/Julie/Fran: Anna Waldron

Directed by Danielle Fauteux Jacques
Assistant Director: Alison Meirowitz
Stage Manager: Veronica Morales
Set Design: Shelley Helene Barish
Costume Design: Julie Dauber
Choreographer: Ara Glenn-Johanson
House Managers: Carol Bortman, Eli Bortman, Ida Rudolph

Ethan Lipton’s plays have been seen and heard in New York, LA, Seattle, Edinburgh (Scotland) and Berne (Austria) at theaters including the Public, Lark, 3LD, HERE, the Ohio, New York Stage and Film, Dixon Place, WPA, Complex and Powerhouse, with companies including Clubbed Thumb, Gotham Stage, Buffalo Nights, New Century and Rude Mechanicals. Ethan is a winner of a NYFA grant and a Drama-Logue Award for playwriting. He has been a Kesselring nominee, an O’Neil Conference finalist and a member of the Public Theater’s Emerging Writers Group. Ethan is a 2011 Playwright’s Realm Fellow and a member of the Clubbed Thumb Writers Group. Currently working on a commission from True Love Productions to write the book and songs for a new musical, Ethan received a 2011 New York Voices NEA grant from Joe’s Pub, for which he and his band created the music theater piece “No Place to Go.” On the sly, Ethan has sung backup for Laurie Anderson on “Late Night with David Letterman,” originated the role of Klipspringer in ERS’s award-winning production GATZ and worked with Gabriella Barnstone of dance-theater company El Gato Teatro.

"hilarious and horrifying....

an excellent play that explores how we alternately
demonize, deify and finally ignore our wounded warriors"
—NY Times


	MATTHEW MILO SERGI (Luther), relatively new to the Boston area, appeared most recently as the Groom Deity in The Lily's Revenge (A.R.T.), as Dr. Zartosky in 28 Seeds (Liars and Believers, BCA-Plaza), as Birdo in the feature-length film Day of Youth (dir. Jared Vincenti), and as a performer in Waltz (Mobius), a piece he co-created with Ara Glenn-Johanson. A 2012 Artist in Residence in Performance at the Headlands Center for the Arts and a recipient of the Fort Mason In Performance Grant, Matt has shown work as a performer and writer at various indie venues in New York (twice in the NYCFringe) and San Francisco (Kunst-Stoff, CounterPULSE, DanceMission). Special thanks to Efrain Hernandez for teaching Matt by example to be a good soldier and a good man.
	RONALD NELSON LACEY (Walter/Artist) was nominated for the Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Actor for his portrayal of Astrov in Apollinaire's Uncle Vanya. He returned to Apollinaire as Rosencrantz in last summer's Apollinaire in the Park presentation of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. He has appeared in various productions in the Boston area. Favorite roles include Jerry in Betrayal, Father Flynn in Doubt, Doctor Caius in The Merry Wives of Windsor, and Gaveston in Marlowe's Edward II. His directing credits include Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Measure for Measure.
	ANNA WALDRON (Phi/Julie/Fran) is very happy to be back at Apollinaire after previously appearing in Rhinoceros, The Firebugs, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea and Cooking with Elvis. Other performances in and around Boston include Tiffany in You For Me For You (Company One), Edith in Blithe Spirit (Lyric Stage), Alex in On the Verge (The Nora), Felicity in The Real Inspector Hound (The Publick Theatre), Nell/May in Caryl Churchill's Fen (Whistler in the Dark), Ruth in Book of Days, Mabel/Mrs. Cheveley in An Ideal Husband, All in the Timing, The Laramie Project (Bad Habit Productions), The Comedy of Errors (Imaginary Beasts) and Rock n' Roll, As You Like It, The Importance of Being Ernest (The Longwood Players). Last Spring Anna co-founded a new theatre company, Simple Machine, and appeared in their debut performance, the New England premiere of Julien Schwab's rogerandtom. Anna is a graduate of Northeastern University. She lives with her wonderful husband and two horrible cats.
	WOODY GAUL (Tom/Captain James) is thrilled to be working in his first production with the Apollinaire Theatre Company. Past roles include Zach (A Chorus Line), Ernst Ludwig (Cabaret) and Steven Kodaly (She Loves Me) with the Woodland Theatre Company, Hamlet (Hamlet) at the Vokes Theater in Wayland, and Don Pedro (Much Ado About Nothing) and Master Page (Merry Wives of Windsor) with the Hudson Shakespeare Company in NYC.
	LORNA NOGUEIRA (Artist) is happy to be back at the Apollinaire. Past credits with the company include Mammals, The Wonderful World of Dissocia and Thugs. She recently appeared with Whistler in the Dark in Our Country's Good, Science Fiction Theatre Company's The Man In The Couch, 4th Wall Stage Company's Long Day's Journey Into Night and Whistler's Fen. She is currently working on an independent film, Monochromia, by Michael Legge and will direct a staged reading of her adaptation of Moby Dick at the Medway Public Library at noon, April 27th.
	ARA GLENN-JOHANSON (Choreographer) is a choreographer and performer. Most recently, she choreographed the dance-theatre act (Act 3) of The Lily's Revenge for The A.R.T. and She Kills Monsters for Company One. Her original performance works have been curated in NYC, San Francisco, San Diego, and Cambridge at venues including ODC Theatre, CounterPULSE, Mobius, and SOMArts. She was a 2012 Artist in Residence at The Headlands Center for the Arts and a recipient of the Hewlett Foundation Fort Mason In Performance Grant. She holds a BFA (NYU/Tisch) and MFA (UCD). www.araglennjohanson.com
	CHRIS LAVOIE (Morris/Artist) is a Boston based actor. Recent credits include Smudge & Dream Kitchen with the Apollinaire Theatre Company, Future Boyfriend with Counter Productions Theatre Company, and Being for the Benefit of Mrs Huth with the Boston sketch comedy troupe Tungsten. This past Fall Chris co-directed The Man in the Couch with the Science Fiction Theatre Company
	SHELLEY BARISH (Scenic Design) is excited to be working with Apollinaire Theatre. Shelley has collaborated with a number of theatres including, Theatre Fairfield, The Berkshire Theatre Festival, SUNY New Paltz, Geva Theatre, Eastman School of Music and The Ohio Light Opera. Most recently Shelley designed Barefoot in the Park for Bristol Valley Theatre. She received her M.F.A from Michigan State University and currently designs and teaches at UMASS Lowell. Favorite Scenic Designs include: Assassins, Private Lives School House Rock Live, Born Yesterday, Rent, As You Like It, Blood Wedding, SubUrbia, BOOM, Der Vogelhandler, Uneccessary Farce (premier), Boeing Boeing, HMS Pinafore, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and Dead Man's Cell Phone.
	JOHN D. CADIZ (Puppet Design) A 1984 graduate of MCLA with a Theatre minor, John joined the Apollinaire team in 2011 assisting behind the scenes as ASM for Slasher. In 2012, Stage Manager for Smudge and Uncle Vanya. Having created Mr. Carrot and Mr. Limbs for Smudge. John returns for his first design credit with the creations of Phil, Julie, Officer and Fran for Luther. John looks forward to the next challenge to be presented to him by the artistic and inspirational Director DFJ.
	JULIE DAUBER (Costume Designer) recently designed Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead for Apollinaire in the Park. She also designs for Eastern Nazarene College (Raisin in the Sun, Fools, Bye Bye Birdie, Little Women, Painting Churches, Stories of God, Doctor Faustus, Seussical). She has worked at Modlin Center for the Arts in Virginia, Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan, and local companies Actor's Shakespeare Project (Duchess of Malfi, Midsummer Night's Dream), Riverside Theatre Works (Music Man), and Zero Point Theatre (Crimes of the Heart). She studied Theatre and Dance at the University of Richmond and Theatre Education at Emerson College.