Wendell Theatre Group presents
'A PERFECT GANESH'
by Terrence McNally
directed by Amit Mahtaney, T'05
Sheafer Theater , Bryan Center, West Campus
Performances : February 5th (8pm), 6th (8pm), 7th (3pm, & 8:30pm)
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. . . . . . . Cast . . . . . . .
Auditions were held:
October 29th Wednesday: 7:30-11PM
October 31st Friday: 4pm-8pm
Callbacks were on November 1st from 12:30-5
Thanks again to all who auditioned. The cast is as follows:
GANESHA: GREG ANDERSON
MAN: DANNY SMITH
MARGARET CIVIL: CAROLINE PATTERSON
KATHARINE BRYNNE: CARRIE ALEXANDER
. . . . . . . Production Roles . . . . . . .
Producer : Maura Farver
Assistant Producer : Stephen Cox
Director : Amit V. Mahtaney
Assistant Director : Bridget Bailey
Stage Manager : Vanessa Rodriguez
Assistant Stage Manager : Matt Runnalls
Rehearsal ASM : Carla Hermida
Dramaturg : Professor John Clum
Assistant Dramaturg : Ellie Shockley
Set Designer : Naomi Reagan
Technical Director : Chris Venit
Master Carpenter : Greg Anderson
Co-Props Masters : Trey Sherard, Betty Tung
Costume Design : Jacqueline Langheim
Make-up & Hair : Maggie Chambers
Sound Designer : Adam Sampieri
Asst. Sound Designer : Matt Hooks
Lighting Designer : Brian Schroeder
Asst. Lighting Designer : Claudia Fischmann
Western Movement : Meredith Miller
Movement/Eastern Dance : Mekhala Devi Natavar
Kathakali Movement: Lissa Brennan
Voice/Dialect Advisor: Professor Christine A. Morris
Voice/Dialect Coach: Lissa Brennan
Costume Crew : Maggie Valiunas, Stephen Cox, William Lynam, Karen Burns
Run Crew : Beth Hilliard
Publicity Crew : Davis Hasty
If you are interested in being involved in this production, please contact the stage manager Vanessa Rodriguez at var4@duke.edu. We look forward to seeing many of you involved in what we hope will be a
funfilled and exciting project.
. . . . . . . FYI . . . . . . .
Dramatists Play Service summarizes the play as follows:
THE STORY: The pilgrimage tradition is turned on its head when two outwardly unremarkable, middle-aged lady friends throw themselves into a rousing tour of India, each one having her own secret dreams of what the fabled land of intoxicating opposites will do for the suffering she hides within. Margaret Civil, an uptight example of WASP prerogative, has just discovered a lump in her breast but hasn't told her friend. The more theatrical and adventurous Katharine seeks a respite from the haunting of her son, Walter, and even thinks of kissing the leprous hordes of Bombay to atone for the way she rejected him and maybe, she thinks, contributed to the gay-bashing in which he died. Faced with the women's despair, who but the golden elephant god could intervene? Fluid in his power to assume any guise, at peace with all things, Ganesha is the spiritual center around which the play spins itself, drawing upon the tragic and the comic, the beautiful and the deplorable, until a breathtaking release arrives for both women at his hands.
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