ImpetuousTheater Group

12th Night of the Living Dead

12th Night of the Living Dead [is] a gory marriage of the visions of those two singular showmen, William Shakespeare and George Romero. You'll probably never see another version of the play in which Orsino (Aaron Zook) offers his hand in marriage, literally. The adapter, Brian MacInnis Smallwood, makes a valiant effort to stick to the script - using only Shakespeare's words - but as the zombies keep multiplying, the spoken poetry becomes something simpler and more to the point: "Gaaaaaa!" The absurdist humor of "12th Night" …makes for a nice lark. The director John Hurley's cast is frighteningly game …[there is] a dedication to blood and guts that you don't often see onstage.

Jason Zinoman, NY Times 10/30/07

(pictures from reading)

(pictures 2007)

When a strange meteor smashes into a ship en route to Illyria, the bodies pile up as fast as the romantic complications. Will true love prevail? Can a zombie be made to understand the affairs of the heart, without eating it? Or will the fools of Illyria never live to see another dawn?

by BRIAN MACINNIS SMALLWOOD (and WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE)

stage manager SARAH LOCKE*

directed by JOHN HURLEY

featuring

orsino AARON MICHAEL ZOOK*

olivia SHASHANAH NEWMAN

viola LINDSAY WOLF*

olivia's sister REYNA DE COURCEY

sir toby belch TIMOTHY J. COX

sir andrew agencheek BENJAMIN ELLIS FINE

maria ERIN JEROZAL

feste LARRY GIANTONIO*

malvolio TOM KNUTSON

fabian WILL SCHMINKE

captain NEIMAH DJOURACHI

curio ALEX PAPPAS*

valentine JOESEPH MATHERS

sebastian JASON PARADINE

antonio C.L. WEATHERSTONE

original artwork JOE BOYLE

graphic design ANA PAULA RODRIGUES

makeup/special effects design SALLY O'MALLEY & JANET ZARECOR

set design RACHEL GORDON

costume design LILLI RHIGER

lighting design sound design LILY FOSSNER

sound design RYAN DOWD

puppet design JOE POWELL

fight choreographer Carrie Brewer Hilton

Assistant Fight Choreographer Maggie MacDonald

production staff:

production manager BRIAN MACINNIS SMALLWOOD

technical director JOE MATHERS

general manager COREY HAYDU

box office manager TAYLOR SHANN

head usher AVERIA GASKIN

artistic director JAMES DAVID JACKSON

managing director JOSH SHERMAN

production manager JOE POWELL

* Equity Approved Showcase

Performance schedule
Thursday 10/25 - 8pm (opening night)
Friday 10/26 - 8pm
Saturday 10/27 - 7 & 9:30pm
Sunday 10/28 - 7pm

Tuesday 10/30 - 8pm
Wednesday 10/31 - 8pm
Thursday 11/1 - 8pm
Friday 11/2 - 8pm
Saturday 11/3 - 7 & 9:30pm

Wednesday 11/7 - 8pm
Thursday 11/8 - 8pm
Friday 11/9 - 8pm
Saturday 11/10 - 7 & 9:30pm

Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center
La Tea Theater
107 Suffolk Street, 2nd Floor
F to Delancy St. - J/M/Z to Essex St.lemente Soto Velez Cultural Center