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Production History

Workshop and three dramatic readings 

University of Richmond

Monday Night World Theater

Modlin Center for the Arts

Sept. 14, 15, 16 2009

Director: Walter Schoen

Stage Manager: Donna E. Coghill

Producer: Paul Kappel

CAST

Frieda: Dorothy Holland

Emile: Rusty Wilson

Alla: Irene Ziegler

Tamar: Julie Fulcher

Heather: GlennMary Carroll

Danny: Patrick Jones

Dramatic reading

Univ. of North Texas Dance and Theatre Dept., Feb. 4th, 2010

Director: Andy Harris 

CAST

Frieda: Marjorie Hayes

Emile: Brian Hill

Alla: Candace Cockerham

Tamar: Victoria Eaton

Heather: Kerry Goldmann

Danny: Andrew Bourgeois

God/Narrator: Andrew Aguilar

Staged reading at The Players

New York City, May 17, 2011

Director: James Lawson

CAST

Emile: John Martello

Frieda: Marjorie Hayes

Tamar: Sharoon O’Connell

Heather: Claire Lucido

Danny: Douglas Harvey

Alla: Karin de la Penha

Staged Reading

Black Box Theatre, Palm Springs High School, May 24, 2011 

Director: David Catanzarite 

Staged Reading

Carousel Theatre, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, April 20, 2013

Directed by Dennis E. Perkins

CAST

Frieda: Eileen Conway

Emile: Zack Allen

Tamar: Amy Hubbard

Heather: Jenny Cunic

Danny/young Emile: Brandon Wilhoit

Alla: Katie Norwood Alley 

Full production

in German (translated by Hartmut Frank), as “Was Euch Gehört”Bayreuth, StadtHalle, Kleines Haus, Sept. 27, 2014.

Director: Jan Burdinski 

Scenery: Karin Pollak

CAST  

Frieda: Marsha Cox

Emil: Markus Veith

Tamar: Laura Mann

Heather: Bettina Wagner

Danny: Alexander Boock

Alla: Carolin Barczyk

Young Frieda: Kirsten Annika Lange

Young Emil: Lars Eichhorn

In 2015 there were three further performances of the same production:

9/25/15  in Ambach/Ursensollen 

9/27/15 in Darmstadt

9/28/15 in Frankfur

In these there were two new actors for

Alla: Karin Schubert

Young Frieda: Heidi Lehnert 

Published in Japan

translated by Keiko Kawashima, Izumi Shuppan Insatsu, Osaka, 2014, http://www.ne.jp/asahi/kaeru/kawashima/play/

Published in German

trans. H. Frank and C. Reichert, Cantus Verlag, Eschach,  2015.

Published in 2015 by Dos Madres Press, Loveland, OH. 

Staged rehearsed reading

at Isabel Bader Theatre of Queens University, Kingston, Ont. Canada

Director: Craig Walker, with music (Chopin) by John Burge, piano

CAST

Danny: Owen Strong

Heather: Rebecca Solway

Tamar: Hollie Stewart

Frieda, 81: Carolyn Hetherington

Frieda, 32: Anna Sudac

Emile, 55: Craig Walker

Emile, 6: Colin McLeod

Alla: Amie Bello 

Full production in Japanese

at Theatre, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan, Nov. 1, 3, 5, 6.

Director: Ryou Tadaki

Stage Designer: Takeyoshi Ishimatsu

Frida: Mizume Ito

Emile: Ryou Tadaki

Tamar: Momen Ichitani

Heather: Yukari Fujinatsu

Danny: Takuya Nakayama

Young Frida: Emi Ando

Young Emile: Yuuto Takano, Haruto Nonoyama

Alla Olesko: Toshiko Naganawa

Myroslav Olesko: Douryu Shibata

Uncle Ernie: Yuta Nakamura

God: Kiyoshi Tamaki

Angels: Norio Sakurai, Yu Nagasei, Fuko Ando, Yasutaka Murata, Atsuya Suzuki, Yuki Nakamura

Full production in Japanese in 2017,  

directed by Hitoshi Uyama, former director of New National Theatre, Tokyo:

May 18 in Kodaira

May 26-28 in Noto

May 30-31 in Nishinomiya

June 2nd in Tajimi

June 4 in Chiryu

June 14-25 in Tokyo (Shin Kokuritsu Theater, 400 seats)

Full production televised nationally in Japan on Aug. 6, 2017.