2004 Stampede Theatre Festival Program 2
Styrofoam
written by Kevin Doyle
directed by Brian Snapp
assistant director Darin Sergent
with openers in rep:
This Is Not a Knot
written by Brian Snapp
directed by Eric Michael Kochmer
Odyssey Theatre Ensemble's Solo Performances:
SUBconscious by Rachel Macklin
directed by Denise Hurd
Dancing Through Neverland
written by Slaney Chadwick Ross
directed by Dawn Elane

Styrofoam

Schedule     Cast     Synopsis

Schedule (Program 2 Runs 90 min.)
Fridays at 8:00 pm: Jan.  9, 16, 23;
Fridays at 10:30 pm: Jan. 30 and Feb. 6.  
Sundays at 7:00 pm Jan. 11, 18, 25,   Feb. 1 (Super Bowl alternative!).
Wednesdays at 8:00 pm: Jan. 21, 28, and Feb. 4.   Individual tickets are $12 Gen. Admission, $10 Student and Artist with I.D.
The Stampede Pass is $50 and includes all Stampede events.

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EXTENDED THROUGH FEB. 21
Styrofoam is extending its run at The Trilogy Theatre. Tickets for the dates Feb. 10 - Feb. 21 are $20 General Admission. The box office info is the same, but the dates are different: Tuesday at 7 pm, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 8 pm.
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Cast
Keri Meoni (Jessica)
Dan Roach (Christopher)
Patrick Shefski (BB)
Varick Boyd (HH)

Synopsis
Read Martin Denton's review of Styrofoam on nytheatre.com

Read the New York Times' own D.J.R. Bruckner's review of Styrofoam on nytimes.com

Throughout the Communist countries of Eastern Europe during the 1960s, a number of young dissident playwrights emerged using techniques of the Absurd to comment on Orwellian aspects of their culture. In the play Styrofoam, Brooklyn writer Kevin Doyle appropriates Absurdist techniques to depict aspects of American culture distinctly Huxleyan by nature. Lined up in the crosshairs stands an inventory of cherished American values and institutions. In a lavish, high-rise Manhattan apartment the worlds of working-class blokes and neo-yuppie hipsters collide on moving day. Not only is Christopher anxious to have all his possessions moved in, he expects a package to arrive at any minute. The stress and suspense is simply killing Jessica, his prospective fiancée. How does a couple cope? Sit down, relax, read the Sunday paper — and let the movers deal with it. Kevin Doyle has penned a play that resists tidy categorization and defies simple definition. Do we live in a democracy, or a market? A nation, or a target group? Who — or what — have we ultimately become? Styrofoam deftly handles these questions in a comic vein, culminating in a final stage picture that must be seen to be understood.