mountainhotel

Identity is a small price to pay for happiness.

In a Chekhovian countryside, Mountain Hotel residents talk about nothing. A sunbather has a schizophrenic love affair. He cheats on himself with himself. A writer commits an unspeakable act at a birthday party. Even though he did not attend. The Count chases an ingénue he loved once in Paris. But she’s never been to Paris. A young woman pines for her infancy as a rambunctious child of nature with seven siblings…her sheltered youth as the shy, only child of a poor grammar teacher…and her wealthy girlhood as the descendant of a blue-blooded aristocrat. Rotating hotel directors issue vague pronouncements. Dialogues repeat. Roles reverse. Identities are lost. The world revolves and devolves into a whirligig of meaningless movement and language.

Enjoy your stay at the Hotel.

Performed by Gyda Arber, Fred Backus, Danny Bowes, Bryan Enk, Robert Honeywell, Heath Kelts*, Devon Ludlow, Michael Marion*, Alanna Medlock, R. David Robinson*, Alyssa Siemon*, Moira Stone* and Art Wallace.

* Appearing courtesy of AEA

Translated by Jitka Martinova

Directed by Michael Gardner

Costumes by Isabelle Fields

Stage Managed by Amanda Woodward

ASM/Board OP by Rasha Zamamiri

Thursday, November 9 at 7 p.m.

Friday, November 10 at 8 p.m.

Sunday, November 12 at 2 p.m.

Wednesday, November 15 at 8 p.m.

Saturday, November 18 at 9:30 p.m.

Sunday, November 19 at 2 p.m.