SEASON

JUDEVINE by David Budbill

Directed by Ross Bolen and starring Rachel Agee, Rebekah Durham, Aly Ingman, Ken Jackson, Jeff Miller, Alice Raver, Elliott Robinson, Kurt Schlacter Linda Speir and Joseph Stanley.

Show dates: Feb 5-6 and 11-14. All shows at 7:30 p.m. except Sunday, Feb 14, which is at 6 p.m.

at the Actors Bridge Studio at Neuhoff in historic Germantown (100 Monroe Street)

Through a series of interrelated scenes, an ensemble of actors create 24 characters in a town called JUDEVINE, a poor, rural mountain town in northern Vermont. JUDEVINE is a parade of lives seen singly and in relation to others: Raymond and Ann, who in their 50 years together have become a mythic vision of love and warmth and cooperation; Grace, whose tortured and lonely life explodes into bitterness, violence, jealousy and finally into madness; teenager Carol Hopper, middle-aged Conrad and the Vietnam vet, Tommy, who all in their isolation withdraw into themselves; Lucy, who has literally lost her mind, and Jerry who loves and protects her; Alice who is "half man, half woman" and who "embraces other people's lives," Laura and Edgar, who pass their ordered, proper and restrained days while bursting with repressed passion for each other; and Antoine, the bad talking saint, the irrepressible, effusive, loquacious and ebullient lover of women and all the rest of life. These and many others populate the town and the life of JUDEVINE and are brought to the stage by David, the poet, who is the narrator of this play and who observes all these others from his own isolated yet involved and loving distance.

Friday, February 5 @ 7:30 p.m.                              Thursday, February 11 @ 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, February 6 @ 7:30 p.m.                          Friday, February 12 @ 7:30 p.m.
NO SHOW on Super Bowl Sunday                         Saturday, February 13 @ 7:30 p.m.
                                                                                Sunday, February 14 @ 6 p.m.