Envision is a series of limited-scale productions designed to give performers, directors and audiences the opportunity to explore material that for various reasons we cannot include in our regular season.
May 3, 4 at 8pm and may 5 at 2pm
The Cripple of Inishmaan
by Martin mcdonagh
Directed by michele delattre
It¹s 1934 on a remote Irish island. Cripple Billy hears that the Man of Aran is being filmed on a nearby island and longs to be a part of it. Orphaned, disabled and lonely, Billy spends his time staring at cows and fending off the constant insults of his fellow villagers two daft aunts, a fierce local girl, her dimwitted brother and a professional village gossip bent on doing in his mother with drink. Billy yearns to escape. The NY Post says, “McDonagh has a way of mixing up his humor with a touch of the poet and a profound sense of tragedy that’s always lurking dangerously on comedy¹s untidy fringe.”
Featuring Vicki Siegel, Jo Lusk, Bruce Kaplan, Matthew Capbarat, Erik Johnson, Cherie Girard-Brodigan, Cameron Lewis, Norman Macleod, Theo Collins
For tickets, call (510) 232-3888
Experienced directors who wish to submit plays for production may send them to Masquers Playhouse, Attn: Envision Submissions, P.O. Box 71037, Richmond, CA 94807
Technical requirements and expenses for production must be kept at a minimum. No one is paid for an Envision production.
Original scripts are not being considered at this time for Envision productions. Please contact our Off the Page program to submit original scripts.
Past Envision productions
2012
Bosoms and Neglect by John Guare; dir. Linda Ellinwood
Painting Churches by Tina Howe; dir. Janet O’Brien
2011
Have We Met? Four Comedies:
Sure Thing by David Ives; dir. John Hull
The Siren Song of Stephen Jay Gould by Benjamin Bettenbender; dir. James Colgan
Three Questions by Maurice Martin; dir. Margaret Paradis
Relative Strangers by Sheri Wilner; dir. Linda Ellinwood
Cemetery Club by Ivan Menchell; dir. Theo Collins
2010
Going to St. Ives by Lee Blessing; dir. Theo Collins
This Is Where We Came In by Alan Ayckbourn; dir. Peter Budinger & DC Scarpelli
2009
Copenhagen by Michael Frayn; dir. Theo Collins
2008
Talley’s Folly by Lanford Wilson; dir. Carlene Coury
2007
Four Plays by Peter Levy:
Titanic Revisited dir. Margaret Paradis
The Interview dir. Patricia Inabnet
The Mourners dir. Jan Brown
Friends dir. Marilyn Kamelgarn
2006
A Walk in the Woods by Lee Blessing; dir. Deborah Robbins
2005
Peter and Estelle’s Kid by Anthony V. Lucido; dir. G. A. Klein
Memorial Day by Francis Hamit; dir. Betty Baker Bindner
Don Juan in Hell by George Bernard Shaw; dir. Theo Collins
2004
The Breaking Point, a new play by Dean Goodman; dir. Betsy Bell Ringer
Directing Workshop conducted by Theo Collins
2003
Trifles by Susan Glaspell; dir. Marilynn Kamelgarn
The Shock of Recognition by Robert Anderson; dir. Nikki Gage
I’m Herbert by Robert Anderson; dir. Theo Collins
Assassins, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by John Weidman; dir. Betty Baker Bindner
2002
Collected Stories by Donald Margulies; dir. Debra Blondeim
Shirley Valentine by Willy Russell; dir. Jan Brown
2001
The Zoo Story and The American Dream by Edward Albee; dir. Colleen Coury
2000
Grace and Glory by Tom Ziegler; dir. Theo Collins
1999
K2 by Patrick Meyers; dir. Betty Baker Bindner
‘night Mother by Marsha Norman; dir. Steve Hill
1999
Bells Are Ringing, music by Jule Styne, lyrics and book by Betty Comden & Adolph Green; dir. Robert Love
On the Verge by Eric Overmyer; dir. Linda Ellinwood
1998
Rodgers and Hart dir. Robert Love
Molly Sweeney by Brian Friel; dir. John Tangney
Echoes by N. Richard Nash; dir. Betsy Bell Ringer
Annie Get Your Gun, music and lyrics by Irving Berlin, book by Dorothy & Herbert Fields; dir. Robert Love
The Gin Game (Jo Camp Memorial Production) by D. L. Coburn; dir. Rhoda Plymack
1997
Camping with Henry and Tom by Mark St. Germain; dir. Robert Hamm
1996
Agnes of God by John Pielmeier; dir. Tim Hart
Oleanna by David Mamet; dir. Virginia Cherniak
1995
Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman; dir. Virginia Cherniak
