Fault Line Theatre actors Karl Gregory (Frogs, From White Plains), Haas Regen (Doctor Faustus, Frogs), and Rudi Utter (Doctor Faustus, Frogs) will be featured in an upcoming staged reading for two nights only in New York City! Please note that the reading is in different locations each night. Tickets are free, so there’s really no excuse to miss this debut reading!
September 7 @ 7pm
Manhattan Theatre Club’s Creative Center
311 West 43rd St. 8th Floor.
New York, NY 10036
September 8 @ 7pm
ART/NY’s Bruce Mitchell Room
520 Eighth Avenue, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10018
A LITTLE ABOUT THE PLAY
Troubled souls grapple with diphtheria, infant mortality, and cocaine addiction, among other obstacles, in Lizzie Vieh’s new drama, Wisconsin Death Trip, based on the book by Michael Lesy. Wisconsin Death Trip mixes vivid poetic language with deliciously dark humor, and explores themes of loss, sickness, alienation, drug addiction, and sexual yearning. While most events are filtered through the perspective of tireless newspaperman Frank Cooper (Utter), the heart of the drama is found in our intimate encounters with characters such as Anna Myinek (Lubow) and Ward Rausch (Loughlin), two homeless tramps on-the-go; and Vera Arlington (Kaplan), a wealthy daughter of a landowner who marries beneath her status, dies during childbirth, and returns as a ghost. These stories offer small glimpses into the resoluteness of the human spirit in the face of utter destruction.
CAST:
- Georgia Cohen
- Charise Greene
- Karl Gregory
- Brough Hansen
- Ben Kahre
- Caroline Kaplan
- Lizzie King-Hall
- Jason Loughlin
- Lauren Lubow
- Haas Regen
- Rudi Utter
PRODUCTION TEAM:
- Director - James Rutherford
- Playwright - Lizzie Vieh
- Book - Michael Lesy