Horse Trade Presents
loup garou international Production of

Le LYCANTHROPE
a play in verse

by Timothy McCown Reynolds

The Kraine Theater
85 E4th St.
btwn 2nd and 3rd Ave.

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Tickets:
Adult: $18
Student and Senior: $10

Previews October 3 and 4
@ 8pm

Opening night Thursday October 9th.

8pm performances on Wednesdays and Thursdays
All Friday performances
@ 7pm

Special Halloween performances Monday 10/30 and Tuesday 10/31
@ 7pm

"Le Lycanthrope mixes the right amount of satire and class to create an original and—surprisingly literary—interpretation of Moliere's French classic...full of cleverness... anyone looking for a fun treat to get in the Halloween spirit could check out this show and not feel tricked."

Kimberly Paterson

Le Lycanthrope is an "unofficial sequel" to Le Misanthrope, by Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere. At the climax of Moliere's play, Alceste, the titular "Misanthrope" (hater of mankind), betrayed and ridiculed by the woman he loves, shamed and prosecuted by her other suitors, exits the stage in a Fury, vowing to live in the wilderness away from Parisian Society "where man is arrant wolf to man"; his friends Philinte and Eliante exit after him, determined to change his mind. End of play. Anbiguity. Does he leave, or not?

Le Lycanthrope begins on Halloween, 1673, with Alceste having returned from six years in the wilderness. He claims to be a "Lycanthrope", a WEREWOLF, and has come to exact Revenge upon the "Wolves Society" of his enemies. So he decides to throw a little Halloween Party...

 

 

What ensues is Revenge-Farce with a Monster-Movie Groove.

warning:

This play is composed in rhyming couplets of iambic pentameter, employs extended metaphors, double-entendre, and puns; It may be unsuitable for persons unaccompanied by a sense of humour .

 

Cast and Crew

  Marta Kuersten (CELIMENE) is thrilled to be a part of this cast and to be working with Inverse and Loup Garou fo the first time.  She graduated from NYU's Tisch School last May, where she attended Atlantic and the Classical Studio.  Thanks Timothy, Brendan, Ruthie and everyone--you guys have been great fun to work with!
  Bob Laine (CLITANDRE) is a poet, playwright and actor. He is an Inverse Theater Company member and has appeared in 13 of Kirk Bromley's original American verse plays including three different productions of Midnight Brainwash Revival , four different productions of The American Revolution , as well as such favorites as Icarus and Aria , Want's Unwisht Work, On the Origin of Darwin and the recent The Banger's Flopera and Three Dollar Bill . In addition, he performed in Who In the Hell is the Real Live Lorilie Lee? with the DM Theatrics Company in 2004 after having performed in their OOBR winning Antony and Cleopatra in 2002 and Fugitive Girls in 2000. He has been performing his original work since 1991 in Chicago and New York and his play What's That Buzz? opened in New York in 1999. He performed his latest play Cocaine Faggot at the PSNBC Performance Workshop at Here theater.
 

John McConnel ( PHILINTE ) John's New York roles include: Sanford, Hercule, Zuleika and Pierre in the Medicine Show Theater's 2004 production of Nymph Errant , and the role of Shem in productions of Finnegans Wake (2004, 2005) with the same company. John also played the role of John in the new musical Worlds Away which ran at the Producer's Club during the summer of 2004. Last year, John played the role of Tom Dodge in the Inverse Theater production of The American Revolution , the role of Walter in Inverse's The Banger's Flopera and the role of Patient in Inverse's Three Dollar Bill . John played the role of Philinte in the 2004 production of Le Lycanthrope and is happy to be returning this year to revise the role.

  Catherine McNelis (ARSINOE) Member of Inverse Theater Company. Credits with Inverse: The Burnt Woman of Harvard , Midnight Brainwash Revival , The American Revolution and  The Banger's Flopera . Other credits include: Othello , Love's Labours Lost , the premiere of Mac Wellman's Infrared (dir by Travis Preston), Girlf* , An Evening with Roberta Combs   ,  the premiere of Richard Foreman's He Was Expected Soon (all dir by Timothy Haskell), Harm's Way, Tom Sawyer , Jane Eyre , Snow White , a touring production of Ramona Quimby with Theatreworks USA, a few voiceovers, an audio tour and several commercials for MTV. Graduate of NYU.
  Randall Middleton (KING LOUIS XIV) is a Saint Louis bred and Brooklyn based performer who has made theater the past few years as a member of Red Metal Mailbox, Present Elevation, and Exhibit A theater companies.  Favorite roles have included Hank in Kyle Jarrow's Space Karaoke and the Clown in The Curate Shakespeare As You Like It with Present Elevation.  Randall is excited to explore a second run and a second character in Le Lycanthrope , having appeared in the workshop production at Medicine Show two years ago.  Randall also will be making his US feature film debut as Josh in the new film Special Needs at the Westwood film festival in Los Angeles this October.
  Joe Pindelski (ORONTE) Joe is very happy to be a part of Le Lycanthrope after working with many within this ensemble on Inverse Theater's NY Intl Fringe Festival and NYMF productions of The Banger's Flopera as Mac the Knife/The Fuck God.  NYC Stage: Fugly/The Tank - TITUS X ;  Washington, DC: Olney Theatre Center - The Madwoman of Chaillot ; Signature Theatre - Follies (dir. Eric Schaeffer); Cherry Red Productions – Coyote Woman ; Imagination Stage - Merlin and the Cave of Dreams .  Training: BA Drama - Catholic Univeristy (G. Honegger, chair); Wynn Handman Studio.
  Tara Pologar (ALACOQUE)  is proud to be joining this production of Le Lycanthrope .  She is a 2005 graduate of the New Actors Workshop Conservatory program where she studied with notable directors such as Mike Nichols and George Morrison.  She is also a student of the T. Shreiber studios and Katheryn Markey.  Favorite roles include Carol in Oleanna , Constance in Goodnight Desdamona... and Prudence in Beyond Therapy .  She is currently working with an experimental improv troupe, Play Doctors.  Tara would like to thank her friends and family for their love and support.
  Tom Reid (DR. BON MOT) Tom has preformed in over 100 N.Y. and regional productions. Tom reminds you to Be Here Now.
  Timothy McCown Reynolds (ALCESTE / Playwright) Spawned in Buffalo into a family of Artists.  Acting: Trained with Jim Kirkwood, Ryszard Cieslak, & Louis Scheeder.  Member of Inverse Theater since 2002, seen most recently in  Syndrome.  Writing: Le Lycanthrope is the first full-length play; currently at work on Blue-beard; being the Tragical History of the Notorious Frenchman Gilles De Rais; his Life & Death - a Ten-Act split into two parts, in blank verse.  Appearing next in Temptation for Gemini Collisionworks in Untitled Theatre Company # 61's Havel Festival in November.  All Love and Work dedicated to The Emperor Maximillian, Fast Eddie, & the Lorelei of the Mississippi.  Word.
  Kelly Spitko (ELIANTE) TV and Film:  Law and Order SVU (Vivian), Hoodwinked  (Lana).  NY Theatre:   Getting Out (Arlie), Lincoln Center production of Babes in Toyland  (Mary, Quite Contrary), Banger's Flopera (Candy.)  Regional   Theatre:   The Three Sisters (Natasha), The Crucible   (Elizabeth Proctor),  Cabaret (Kit Kat Girl.)
 

Brendan Turk (DIRECTOR) is a freelance Technical Director and Director.  He directed loup garou international's production of Le Lycanthrope in 2004 and the Corme Sessions scene from Kirk W. Bromley's Wants Unwisht Work in 2006.  He was the Production Stage Manager for Villa Villa (De La Guarda) in Las Vegas and New York from 1997 - 2002.  He was also the Stage Manger for Inverse Theater's The American Revolution and Three Dollar Bill  in 2005.  He's been a Technical Director for the New York Intl Fringe Festival from 2003 - 2006.  He was a Venue Director for the Fringe in 1999 and 2002.  In 2006, he was the Assistant Technical Director for Grey Gardens at Playwrights Horizons and the Technical Director for Trial by Water produced by MaYi Theater Company.

  Kerry Chipman (SET DESIGNER) Past designs include The Most Wonderful Love at the Access Theater, Lascivious Something , Hoodoo Love , and Girl. for the 2006 Mentor Project at the Cherry Lane Theater, El Salvador at the Arclight Theater, Mud at the Access Theater, The Making of Eugenie Doe at the Ohio Theater as part of the Ice Factory Festival 2004, and others, as well as over 28 studio productions at Fordham University. Kerry is also a freelance scenic carpenter and a stagehand on the Off-Broadway circuit.
 

Ruthie L. Conde (PRODUCTION MANAGER) In January of 2005, Ruthie was asked to serve as Managing Director and Production Manager for Inverse Theater.   She served as the company's Stage Manager for all shows from October 2002 - 2004: Midnight Brainwash Revival (2002), The American Revolution (2003), Lost (2003), Grace Notes (2004) and On the Origin of Darwin (2004).  She has stage managed professionally for companies such as:  American Ballet Theater (New York, NY), Queens Theater in the Park (Queens, NY), and Park Playhouse (Albany, NY).  She is also a member of loup garou international and production/stage managed the workshop production of Le Lycanthrope in 2004.

 

Sarah Malinda Engelke (ASST. STAGE MANAGER) is company member of Inverse Theater and loup garou international.  She was last seen as the Goat Pianist in Banana Bag and Bodice's, Sandwich at The Ontological.  She was Alacoque in the 2004 production of Le Lycanthrope .  Next, she will be appearing at Galapagos Art Space as the Statue of Liberty on Crutches in Red Metal Mailbox's Einstein Is Dead And So Are You .  Even though her achilles tendon snapped and it really sucks, she has been having a blast working on Lycanthrope 2006.  Love to Mom, Dad, Mothy, and the rest of you whom I love.

 

Karen Flood (COSTUME DESIGNER) has been designing costumes since 1996, during which time she owned a vintage boutique in the east village called flood.  Her clothes have appeared on Sex and the City , the original production of Urinetown , most of Kirk Bromley's plays, the History Channel, commercials, and many independent films.  She is the recipient of a 2002 ACE award for Best Costumes. Her costumes can be viewed at www.karenflood.com .

 

Ryan Maeker (SOUND DESIGNER) is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the arts. He has designed sound for many Off Broadway and Off-Off Broadway shows including, Nerve by Adam Symkowicz, The Roof by Suzanne Bradbeer and Broken Hands by Moby Pomerance winner of multiple awards at Fringe NYC. Ryan is Currently in production for the Silent Concerto by Alejandro Morales and Dancing vs. The Rat Experiment at La Mama. Ryan is thrilled to be working with such a great cast and crew on this wonderful show. Ryan's projects can be found at www.maedproductions.com .

 

Jeff Nash (LIGHTING DESIGNER) has designed lighting for theater, opera, dance, exhibitions and museum projects, throughout the US, Europe and Asia. As a member of Inverse Theater Co. he designed their recent productions of Midnight Brainwash Revival, Grace Notes, Lost , and The Banger's Flopera. He designed the workshop production of Le Lycanthrope in 2004 as well . Jeff also designed the lighting for Byron and Emily at the Dublin Fringe Festival, and three productions by John Jesurun at the Berliner Festspielehaus, including the premiere of his Philoktetes .