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OCTOBER 7, 2011
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. O C T O B E R 8 - 15, 2011
KELLER AUDITORIUM
ST R A V IN SK Y ’S P E T R O U C H K A
Choreographed by Nicoto Fonte
B IZ E T ’S C A R M E N
Choreographed by
Christopher Stowell
owner Ronni Lacroute and Just Out publisher
Marty Davis lined up to participate on Octo
ber 22, with other sessions in the works.
“It’s provocative and it’s interesting and
we wanted to have some women who have
been successful in areas that are traditionally
male to he part of a discussion afterwards,”
Kern says.
The post-show talks are not unique to the
Glengarry Glen Ross performance, but a reg
ular feature at defunct shows.
“O ur post-show discussions are the most
interesting in town, we like to think,” Kern
says. This time, he adds, defunct sought to
do something more “official” and invite
people who would have insight on the
themes the play addresses, rather than just
members of the theater community.
Discussion of gender and sexuality is
likely to come up— in fact, it’s Kern’s hope.
He doesn’t expect the dialogue to stop with
Glengarry Glen Ross, either. The company’s
next production, Fire Island, follows a vari
ety o f couples, gay and straight.
“We are, in our current incarnation, par
ticularly interested in gender and sexual
identity, perhaps a little more directly than
in the past. I t’s just where our interest lies,”
Kerns says. JK
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a wife and kids, but no such mention is
made in the original script, leaving more
room for interpretation.
“1 think that character is mysterious in a
way because he talks much less than every
one else hut he has a kind o f quiet power,”
Kern says. “And so I think having him hav
ing secrets is interesting.”
But the relationship between Levene and
Williamson is not the only one that takes a
turn with women in the play’s main roles.
Kern says Roma’s relationship with timid cli
ent James Lingk (played by Spencer Conway)
takes on new layers of meaning when Roma,
who is trying to persuade Lingk not to cancel
his property purchase, is played by a woman.
“That scene is a seduction, it’s sort of se
ducing [Lingk] into seeing the world the way
[Roma] sees it and then getting him to buy a
piece of property,” Kern says. “W ith a woman
in that role, she’s playing the exact same in
tention but the audience, because we’re look
ing at a woman, sees something else. It’s still
a seduction, but it has another layer to it.”
The play also features Tom Mounsey as
Dave Moss, Garland Lyons as George Aar-
onow and David Bellis-Squires as D etec
tive Baylen.
Because the casting brings up issues of
women in customarily male jobs, Kerns says
defunct decided to host post-show discussions
featuring a panel of local businesswomen. So
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