Skyhook Productions with Divino Productions present
WHAT WE WANTED
A new play by DAVID HARMS
Featuring
STEVEN HAUCK, KERRY WARREN, BRANDON ESPINOZA, AMY BODNAR, and ELIZABETH RICH
Directed by DREW FOSTER
Stage Managed by ABIGAIL
STRANGE
Assistant Stage Manager: KATIE ASTRA BARNHARD
Set Design & Props
Design: DEB O
Costume Design: GREGORY GALE
Lighting Design: PAUL MILLER &
JOE BEUMER
Sound Design and Original Music: ERIK T. LAWSON
Executive
Producer: CRAIG WELEY DIVINO
Associate Producers: BRIAN DRUMMY & JASON MODICA
Production Manager: JON ZENCHECK
Press Representative: MATT ROSS PR
The Clurman @ Theater Row
410 West
42nd Street (between Ninth & Tenth Avenues)
www.telecharge.com
or (212) 239-6200
January 1 – 15, 2017; Opening Night – 01/05/17
David Harms’ WHAT WE WANTED is a triangulation of families, relationships, and individual desires. In a small Ohio college town, Julian (Steven Hauck), Agnes (Elizabeth Rich), and Sally (Amy Bodnar) are involved in a marriage. Sally at one point abandoned her daughter Reggie (Kerry Warren) to become a part of this unique arrangement. Reggie has uneasily reconciled with her mother and brings into the scene her boyfriend Dale (Brandon Espinoza), an unrefined high school dropout. A path chosen years ago by Julian, Agnes, and Sally is challenged by a career opportunity in another city, a scandal in the college, and a developing relationship between a teacher and her student. When boundaries are erased, the rules are not so easily ascertained after trials and tribulations present themselves.
Superb acting by this ensemble brings to life five complex characters and emphasizes the difficulties in maintaining relationships when secrets and betrayals are thrown into the mix. Amidst a foundation of wall-to-wall and carpeting paper (this impressive set was designed by Deb O), we learn that philosophical concepts are more easily read and written than lived. WHAT WE WANTED explores the lengths to which we will go and the sacrifices we will endure in order to satisfy our needs and yearnings.
- Laurie Lawson -