BY ERICA BERMAN
DIRECTED BY MALLORY METOXEN
SEPTEMBER 25-OCTOBER 13, 2024
Wednesday, September 25: Pay-What-You-Will Preview
Thursday, September 26: Final Preview
Friday, September 27: Opening Night
Wednesday – Saturday evenings at 7:30pm
Friday matinee October 4 at 2:00pm
Sunday matinees at 2:00pm
Discovering the ripple effect of unexpected connections!
With determination (and a bullhorn), retired professor Peter Michaels is on a mission to save the loons of Lake Winnipesaukee, who are dying in record numbers. His summer expectations are thwarted by Sarah, a townie teenager hired to clean the house next door. While they initially grate on each other, they slowly forge a unique intergenerational bond, opening up one tentative moment at a time.
Community Partner
Help of Door County, Inc. provides free and confidential services for victims of domestic violence, as well as their family and friends. Services are available to all victims regardless of their age, gender, race, sexual orientation, or disability. Learn more at helpofdoorcounty.org
Pay-What-You-Will Preview
September 25 at 7:30PM
Events
October 1 at 6:00 PM: Environmental Roundtable
October 4 following 2:00 PM Matinee: Post-Show Conversation with the Help of Door County
October 6 following 2:00 PM Matinee: Post-Show Conversation with aging and ageism expert Paul Salm, Jackie and Steve Kane Artistic Director Jacob Janssen, and Do Good Door County President/CEO Cynthia Germain.
Meet the Playwright
Erica Berman
Erica Berman is a playwright, director, and theater educator. Her plays have been produced at Milwaukee Chamber Theater, The Winnipesaukee Playhouse, Four Seasons Theater, Interlochen Arts Camp, and Kent Place School. She was also commissioned to write an original musical for Kohl’s Wild Theater’s 2019-2020 season at the Milwaukee County Zoo. Her plays have been developed at the Wisconsin Wrights Festival (Forward Theater), Montgomery Davis Play Development Series (Milwaukee Chamber Theater), Words and Music Series (Four Seasons Theater), Protostar Series (Children’s Theater of Madison), and a finalist for the Br!NK Residency Award (Renaissance Theaterworks) and New Plays for Young Audiences (NYU). She was awarded residency to the 2018 & 2019 National Winter Playwrights Retreat with the HBMG Foundation in Colorado. Erica received her BA Mount Holyoke College, MA Emerson College. Her theses at both institutions focused on playwriting.
Cast
Ashley Oviedo*
C. Michael Wright*
Artistic Team
Director
Mallory Metoxen
Set Design
Em Allen
Costume Design
Lucy C Elkin
Lighting Design
Karen Wallace
Sound Design
Grover Hollway
Production Stage Manager
Kelsey York*
Our Show Sponsors
- Show Sponsored by: Shirley Weese Young, Wisconsin Public Radio
Audience Guide
Additional Q&A with Playwright Erica Berman
Sources:
- Loon Facts and Loon Calls information courtesy of [email protected]. LoonWatch is a program of the Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute, Northland College, Ashland, WI.
- Loons and Slow-No-Wake in Wisconsin sources: https://loonproject.org/, https://www.northland.edu/centers/soei/loonwatch/, https://wisconsinlakes.org/wi-lake-partnership/, https://www.jsonline.com, https://www.wpr.org/news/wake-boats-waves-wisconsin-lakes-regulations.
Third Avenue PlayWorks employs members of: Actors Equity Association, Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, and Stage Directors and Choreographers Society