Over fifteen actors from across Northern NJ have been cast in roles in
MARCUS IS WALKING
by Joann Ackerman
WHEN: Friday and Saturday, September 6 and 7, at 8:00 PM, and Sunday, September 8, at 2:00 PM
WHERE: The Burgdorff Center, 10 Durand Road, Maplewood
TICKETS: Tickets are $10 for all unless you purchase a season subscription in which case your ticket to Marcus is Walking is free.
Written as an homage to the automobile, the play examines the emotional landscapes we roam as our cars carry us through our lives. Control, navigation, love and escape are some of the themes explored and extrapolated in this joyride of modern American life.
Eleven vignettes provide a marvelously offbeat, winning evening. This is a play about connections and how we make them; how we get to where we are or where we are going, over roads that are not always so well traveled.
A protective father shepherds his son through the neighborhood on Halloween; an actor on his way to perform Hamlet provokes a rear-end collision and confrontation with a Czech émigré cab driver; a devastated businessman strikes up an unlikely alliance with a homeless woman who sleeps in his car. This is the landscape of human frailty and vulnerability, charm and strength; a playwright's whimsy combined with a shrewd sense of observation.
The cast includes Anthony Raddi, Brianna Newman, Brielle Raddi, Chris Farrow, Cynthia Ross, Danielle Levit, Jeff Taylor, John Mendlovitz, Judi Anne Nolan, Judith Cohen, Kate McNally, Laura Phillips, Rob Bazaral, Rory Hoban, Stacey Petricha, and Victor Gallo. Production crew is Jim Coe, Keith Hoovler and Ed Pierson. The directing staff is Judi French, Fran Shultz, Molly Holzbauer, Pat Tine, David Christopher, Sheila Reese and Rob Pape.
