Hay Fever
July 20 - 29, 2007
Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.
Cast
DeDe DeVille as Judith
Sally Jenkins as Clara
Bret Custer as David
Aric Wright as Richard
Kendra Verhage as Sorel
Jesse Wells as Simon
Sheila Garrison as Myra
Nathan Stock as Sandy
Lainie Rosenthal as Jackie
Production Crew
Director: Don Carlton
Stage Manager: Janet Henry
Assistant Stage Manager: Denise Saylor
Scenic Design and Painting: Panela Leung
Costume Design: Judy Brewster
Properties: Sarah Mattie
Properties assistant: Amy Eisele
Set Construction: Sean Leistico and Panela Leung
Light Design: Craig McCann
Choreography: Eric Turner
Special Thanks to Becky Palmer, Cecilia Leung, and JoAnn Fabrics at 2201 NW Barry Road, KCMO
Synopsis:
The Bliss family is ultra Bohemian. Mother is a retired actress who makes a
crisis out of every scene and father is a novelist. The daughter and son are
handsome and ill mannered. One weekend all announce they are expecting a guest:
mother has invited an athletic youth who is in love with her, Sorel a diplomat,
Simon an intense young woman and David a flapper (a type he is studying for a
novel). The guests receive an unusual and rude reception. Soon mother is paired
off with the diplomat, Sorel with the athlete, Simon with the flapper, and
father with his son's young woman. Dramatizing for all it is worth, Judith first
fears she must tell her husband about her romance, then realizes her daughter is
younger and more attractive to young men so she enacts a scene of noble
sacrifice, and, noticing her husband's flirtation, she follows with a poor
unhappy wife scene. The family is used to such displays, but the guests are
bewildered
