The Fall of Man
By Jonathan Holloway and John Milton

The Right Brain Project is excited to share British playwright Jonathan Holloway's titillating story of man's passion and inevitable fall from grace. Join us for a voyeuristic look at a steamy and illicit affair between a wealthy man and his children's Polish nanny, fused with Milton's Paradise Lost. The Fall of Man is a restless play about humanity's longing and our fall, receiving its U.S. premiere directed by Adam Webster.

Adam elaborates: "I was immediately drawn to Holloway's use of language - sparse but loaded with emotion: fear, doubt, regret, lust, hatred, hubris and remorse, all in less than an hour. Peter and Veronica attack each other with language, as well as silence, and then attack themselves with Milton's language. But they also use Milton's language to court each other, expediting their illicit affair, and then to ruminate, both individually and collectively, on the powerlessness of man to fight temptation. By juxtaposing Milton's text with these sharp shards of dialogue, Holloway immediately thrusts Paradise Lost into a contemporary, compelling, and relatable light."

 

March 8 - April 7
Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 8:00pm

Additional Industry performances:
Monday, March 19, 8:00pm
Monday, March 26, 8:00pm
Monday, April 2, 8:00pm

Presented at:
The RBP Rorschach
4001 N. Ravenswood
Chicago, IL 60613
At the intersection of Irving Park and Ravenswood, on the northeast side of the Metra tracks, just off the Irving Park Brown Line stop.

Reservations are highly recommended, as space is limited. Cash and checks are accepted at the door, and your donations are necessary to keeping the Right Brain Project alive. For more information on our donation policy, please see our home page. Thank you for your generosity.

Email: tickets@therbp.org
Call: 773.750.2033

Director:	Adam Webster
Stage Manager:	Kim Caldwell
Set Design:	Noel Spence
Lighting Design:	Michael C. Smith
Sound Design:	Stephen Gawrit
Costume Design:	Carla Hamilton
Featuring:	Corey Noble
	Anna Robinson

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cast/Crew Bios:

Jonathan Holloway (Playwright) is a senior producer, director, writer, and teacher whose work has been seen and heard all over the world. He has directed professional theatre events ranging from touring circus to pocket musicals to landmark reinventions of the classics. Jonathan founded Red Shift Theatre Company Ltd in 1982, building it from a shoestring fringe company into an Arts Council revenue client and linchpin of UK national touring. As a playwright,, he has written over 50 original dramas and adaptations for stage, television, and radio. His work is published and regularly revived, and has been translated into Spanish and Cantonese. He has collaborated with some of the most important writers, designers and composers in British theatre. At the commercial end of his career, Jonathan has been responsible for a series of popular reimaginings of movies for the stage including The Third Man, Get Carter, and Vertigo. In regard to cutting edge work, he has devised a series of site-sensitive events including his recent Invisible Show series where the audience and actors mix, diluted among large crowds at rock festivals and on busy streets, and during which the audience overhears subtle, sometimes disturbing exchanges via wireless headphones.

Adam Webster (Director) is the artistic director of the side project, which he founded in 2000, and for which he has directed over twenty plays, produced over fifty, and written two full-lengths and a handful of one-acts. Around town, he has also directed for Tympanic Theatre, New Leaf, Speaking Ring, Chicago Dramatists, WBEZ, the Chicago Humanities Festival, Rogue, SlimTack, ExPats, Theatre-Hikes, North Lakeside Players, and Fury Productions. Regional credits include stints in Los Angeles and in Portland, Oregon, where he grew up, and where he founded the Rodney & Myrtle Acting Troupe. As a playwright, his adaptations of Lysistrata, Hippolutus, Life is a Dream, and Maggie: A Girl of the Streets have been performed in Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York - as well as numerous international readings during the Lysistrata Project. Next up is a 10-minute piece he penned for Typanic's Deliver Us from Nowhere in April and a three-show rep he is producing for the side project, opening in May.

Corey Noble's bio is forthcoming.

Anna Robinson hails from Brooklyn, and moved to the Midwest to pursue acting at the University of Michigan. Some of her memorable roles include Lady Macbeth (Macbeth), Rebecca Nurse (The Crucible), and Charlotte (Pride and Prejudice). This is her first production in Chicago and is looking forward to learning more about this wonderful city. Other than theatre, Anna has a passion for teaching children and watching them grow. She would like to thank the production staff for all their work. Thanks also to her friends and Nico for their undying support.

Kim Caldwell (Stage Management) is originally from Denver, and studied Lighting Design and Stage Management at the University of Northern Colorado. Since moving to Chicago, Kim has toured North America with Kid Rock (Born Free Tour 2011) and Broadway theatrical shows. Most recently she toured as the Assistant Electrician/Technical Swing for J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan with Threesixty Entertainment. She is thankful to the RBP for this opporetunity and she is excited to be working on this U.S. premiere.

Noel Spence's bio is forthcoming.

Michael C. Smith (Lighting Design) is happy to be working with the RBP for The Fall of Man. He has worked previously with the RBP on Halfshut, My Filthy Hunt, The Archivist, and We Are Not These Hands, and is also a company member. Other design credits include The Boy In Black with Chicago Fusion Theater, The World Over with the State Theatre of Chicago, Apocolypso, and All the Girls Love Bobby Kennedy with Point of Contention, Radio Silence with The Nine, And He Flew Over the Forest, Two Afternoons of Dance, and Sticky Forest with Brain Surgeon Theater. He is a graduate of Knox College where he discovered a love for lighting, and has been running with it since.

Stephen Gawrit (Sound Design), a native Chicagoan, is a company member of the RBP (PR/Marketing), and he is very excited to design The Fall of Man. Other RBP credits include the workshop of his new play with music Hammer (Playwright/Composer), The Archivist (Playwright/Sound Design), and Pretty Penny (Actor). June 7th, 2012 marks his 26th birthday and the opening of Marat/Sade (Actor) which he couldn't be happier to perform in. Stephen is a proud graduate of the Chicago Academy for the Arts (Theater, 2004). Other recent credits include Caesura: A Butchery (The Plagiarists), Radio Silence (The Nine), and Saints and Sinners (Goat Song). Special thanks to his parents, siblings, other family, the RBP team, and Amanda for their constant support.

Carla Hamilton (Costume Design) is thrilled to be working with the Right Brain Project again! She previously designed We Are Not These Hands for RBP and immensely enjoyed the experience. Carla graduated in 2010 from Knox College and since then her design work has been seen in Through the Middle Ground (the side project), Black and Blue (Factory Theatre), Eiffel Tower Wedding Party (The Nine), and The Balcony (Goat Song). She has also served as a stitcher for Hideous Progeny (North Park University) and Life is a Dream (Vitalists). More of her costumes will soon be seen in Tom Jones (Polarity). She would like to thank her mom for her constant support.