Madness

Date(s) & Times

September 15, 2018

7:00 PM

Wednesday

Admission

Free, Donations Accepted

Sponsors

Produced with the support of Creative Pinellas, Visit St. Petersburg/Clearwater and the Pinellas County Board of County Commissioners, thanks to a Creative Pinellas 2018 Professional Artist fellowship.

Red Circle Sponsors: Hal Freedman and Willi Rudowski

In a Forest made of ladders, where the Moon is a balloon, Midsummer is sparking.

Puck is shifting between male and female and unveiling a Contraption made of Dancers (designed to make us fall in love).

When a man transformed into a woman, two women playing men - and Penelope, who’s never missed a Midsummer - are propelled into the Forest by domestic violence, they collide with an aging soldier-mom and the man who misplaced the recipe for perfect lovemaking... as a celebration of transformation drives them toward morning.

Madness dives into gender stereotypes and gender fluidity with dance, humor, visual art and an improvised score. Inspired by the humans in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Written by Sheila Cowley

Directed by Dan Granke
Choreographed by Paula Kramer

Actors

Eugenie Bondurant

Eddie Gomez

Tonia Krueger

Derrick Phillips

Stephanie Roberts

Lisa Powers Tricomi

Jim Wicker

Dancers

Ethan Barbee

Crystal DelGiudice

Helen Hansen French

Deisha King

Music by Tom Sivak and Matt Cowley

Set suggested by visual artist Kenny Jensen

Featured artwork by Coralette Damme and Ana Maria Vasquez