Creature

Creature

BY HEIDI SCHRECK
DIRECTED BY LEIGH SILVERMAN

CO-PRODUCED WITH PAGE 73 PRODUCTIONS

FAITH IS TRICKY
After being pestered by devils for more than half a year, Margery Kempe is liberated from her torment by a vision of Jesus Christ in purple robes

Visions are hard to come by, even in 1401. Can we trust the new Margery, with the fasting and the weeping and the chastity fixation? Can a woman of insatiable appetites just up and audition for sainthood?

Contemporary and medieval imaginations collide in Heidi’s very funny, a little bit scary new play about faith and its messengers.

VIDEO (by Rehana Mirza): Who is Heidi Schreck?
VIDEO (by Rehana Mirza): What is CREATURE?

WITH
MARYLOUISE BURKE
DARREN GOLDSTEIN
SOFIA JEAN GOMEZ
TRICIA RODLEY
WILL ROGERS
JEREMY SHAMOS

DESIGN
KATIE DOWN
MATT FREY
RACHEL HAUCK
THERESA SQUIRE

 

An] absorbing new play … at once lighthearted and serious. “  — The New York Times

“Makes religious fanaticism look like a lot of fun. Some wonderful performances, too—in particular, those of Gomez, Goldstein, and Shamos—add to the high energy.” — The New Yorker

“Championship acting…. Schreck’s script has narrative simplicity, contemporary zing and lyrical flights of startling loveliness.” – Time Out New York

“The scenes fly beautifully by — a tribute to Silverman’s assured direction and the almost hypnotic unity of Rachel Hauck’s austere wooden sets and Matt Frey’s soft-wattage candle lighting.”  — Variety

OCTOBER 27 – NOVEMBER 21 2009

OHIO THEATRE

PHOTOS

Jim Baldassare