Last Night, I Dreamed I Went to Mandacrest again…
Where portraits bleed, werewolves howl and sinister servants skulk. Where every day is a dark and stormy night and Lord Edgar has serious “mummy” issues.
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Will “She who sleeps, one day wake”? Will Lord Edgar finally shoot the right wolf? Will Nicodemus have a good hair day? Will the turtle lay another egg and are they edible? Will Lady Enid survive the night and find a dress that doesn’t make her thighs look fat?
The answers to these questions and more can be found by attending THE MYSTERY OF IRMA VEP. The classic gothic/mystery/spoof at RENTON CIVIC is playing 21 October 2011 - 5 November 2011.
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Charles Ludlam’s play, first produced by The Ridiculous Theatrical Company in 1984, began its life on the fringe, but has now become a bonafide comedy classic. Time magazine called it, “a true vaudeville tour de farce . . . a lush and loving parody of every gaslight romance from Jane Eyre to Rebecca, with glancing references from Shakespeare to Poe, to silent movies serials and horror movies of the’30s . . . it’s wonderful.”
The tour de farce is also a tour de force for two of Seattle’s finest comic actors, Scot Garrett and Buddy Mahoney. Mr. Garrett brought the house down this summer playing the lethargic lay about Stanley Garner in “Run For Your Wife” and Mr. Mahoney who has entertained Seattle audiences with his star turn in such productions as “The Prisoner of Second Avenue” and “The Producers”, makes his Renton Civic debut. Both gentlemen will be tested to their limits in this new production, which keeps them constantly onstage in a virtuoso display of their protean talents as all seven roles are played by these two comics in fast change.
The Mystery of Irma Vep is designed by Dan Ranking, with opulent glamour and sliding panels. Bill Huls, master of gaslight, designs the illumination. Rachel Wilkie decks the boys in Gothic drag, Alan Wilkie has suitably recovered from “Run for Your Wife” to direct once again. Sadly no one has figured out that “Irma Vep” is VAMPIRE anagrammatized…
TICKETS to The Mystery of Irma Vep can be purchased online at www.rentoncivictheater.org or by phone at 425.226.5529. Performances begin on October 21st and continue through November 5th. All tickets are $22(Adults) or $17 (Student/Senior)
Performances are Thursday at 7:30 p.m.; Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00p.m.; and Sundays at 2:00 p.m
