WORLD PREMIERE PRODUCTION FROM NEW WORKS / STUDIO W
The Pleiades
BY DARCIE DENNIGAN OCTOBER 10 - 13, 2018
The Pleiades
by Darcie Dennigan
The Pleiades is a nimble, fantastical voyage through the lives--and deaths--of six sisters. When one sister dies, the remaining ones urgently try to contact her through supernatural instruments, domestic rituals, and the secret language of siblings. And then there is the middle sister, Pip, who can walk between worlds, and who starts a Death School to help the living communicate with the dead. Swerving through scenes from the sisters' life and afterlife, The Pleiades asks what it means to be forever part of a constellation. Playwright Darcie Dennigan's view of eternity is rich with mystery and dark humor.
The Pleiades
by Darcie Dennigan
directed by Meredith Healy & Josh Short
music direction by Jason Quinn
CAST
KAT - Beth Alianiello
CASS - Liz Craig
SAL - Ruby Goldstein
JOAD - Sarah Leach
NIKKI - Sophia Maro
PIP - Natasha Cole
PERFORMANCES
Wednesday October 10 7:30 pm
Thursday October 11, 2018 7:30 pm
Friday October 12, 2018 7:30 pm
Saturday October 13, 2018 7:30 pm
THE PLEIADES is presented through The Wilbury Group's New Work Development program, Studio W.
The Pleiades
by Darcie Dennigan
directed by Meredith Healy & Josh Short
music direction by Jason Quinn
CAST
KAT - Beth Alianiello
CASS - Liz Craig
SAL - Ruby Goldstein
JOAD - Sarah Leach
NIKKI - Sophia Maro
PIP - Natasha Cole
PERFORMANCES
Wednesday October 10 7:30 pm
Thursday October 11, 2018 7:30 pm
Friday October 12, 2018 7:30 pm
Saturday October 13, 2018 7:30 pm
THE PLEIADES is presented through The Wilbury Group's New Work Development program, Studio W.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Darcie Dennigan (playwright) Darcie Dennigan earned a BA in literature from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and an MFA from the University of Michigan. Her poetry collection Corinna A-Maying the Apocalypse (2008) was winner of the Poets Out Loud prize. In her introduction to the volume, judge Alice Fulton found Dennigan’s long-lined, historically informed poems to be “underwritten by lyric, narrative, pastoral, satire and epic modes.” Dennigan is also author of the poetry collection Madame X (2012). Dennigan was a 2007 Discovery/The Nation winner; her other awards include the Cecil Hemley Award from the Poetry Society of America and a Rhode Island State Council of the Arts Poetry Fellowship. She has been an assistant professor in residence at the University of Connecticut and is a cofounder of and teacher for Frequency Writers: A Writing Community for Providence & Beyond, based in Providence, Rhode Island, where she lives.
Meredith Healy (co-director) Wilbury Group: Church; The Skin of Our Teeth; Who Killed Santa? (staged-reading); Come Back (staged-reading) Other theaters: The White Liars, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, Gruesome Playground Injuries (Wellesley College). Meredith is a proud graduate of Wellesley College and lives in Providence.
Josh Short (co-director) Wilbury Group: The PIrates of Penzance or, The Slave of Duty; The Skin of Our Teeth; New and Dangerous Ideas (w/ Christopher Johnson); Spring Awakening; The Invasion of Vox Populi (w/ Phoenyx Williams); Ui [oo-ey]; Jerusalem; Dry Land; Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead; This Beautiful City; Blasted; Detroit; The Threepenny Opera; The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity; Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson; The Lieutenant of Inishmore. In 2014 Josh founded the Providence Fringe Festival FRINGEPVD which is now the largest Fringe Festival in New England featuring more than 300 artists and 150 performances over a 7 day period. In addition to his work with The Wilbury Group, Josh has worked with Perishable Theatre, The Gamm Theatre, Elemental Theatre Collective, The LaJolla Playhouse, The Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival, and The Providence Black Repertory Company, where he served as Associate Producer from 2008-2010. A graduate of the University of Rhode Island, Josh is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, a national theatrical labor union.
Jason Quinn (music director) Wilbury Group: The Pirates of Penzance or, The Slave of Duty; Ubu Roi; Church; Passing Strange; Other theaters (select): *One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ,St.Joan (2nd Story Theatre) *Motif Award/Best Professional Male Performance; When Mahalia Sings, Jesus Hopped the A-Train,King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing (Mixed Magic Theatre); Mr. Marmalade, HurlyBurly, Three Sisters (Epic Theatre Company) ; The Visit (Contemporary Theatre Company); Julius Caesar (Burbage Theatre Company); String Theory, Ophelia's Cotillion ( Rites and Reasons); Company (Barker Playhouse); Little Shop of Horrors ( Rhode Island Stage Ensemble); The Cider House Rules, A Christmas Carol (The Artist Exchange) Jason is a lead singer in the acclaimed Mixed Magic Exult Choir. He resides in Pawtucket.
Meredith Healy (co-director) Wilbury Group: Church; The Skin of Our Teeth; Who Killed Santa? (staged-reading); Come Back (staged-reading) Other theaters: The White Liars, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, Gruesome Playground Injuries (Wellesley College). Meredith is a proud graduate of Wellesley College and lives in Providence.
Josh Short (co-director) Wilbury Group: The PIrates of Penzance or, The Slave of Duty; The Skin of Our Teeth; New and Dangerous Ideas (w/ Christopher Johnson); Spring Awakening; The Invasion of Vox Populi (w/ Phoenyx Williams); Ui [oo-ey]; Jerusalem; Dry Land; Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead; This Beautiful City; Blasted; Detroit; The Threepenny Opera; The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity; Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson; The Lieutenant of Inishmore. In 2014 Josh founded the Providence Fringe Festival FRINGEPVD which is now the largest Fringe Festival in New England featuring more than 300 artists and 150 performances over a 7 day period. In addition to his work with The Wilbury Group, Josh has worked with Perishable Theatre, The Gamm Theatre, Elemental Theatre Collective, The LaJolla Playhouse, The Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival, and The Providence Black Repertory Company, where he served as Associate Producer from 2008-2010. A graduate of the University of Rhode Island, Josh is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, a national theatrical labor union.
Jason Quinn (music director) Wilbury Group: The Pirates of Penzance or, The Slave of Duty; Ubu Roi; Church; Passing Strange; Other theaters (select): *One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ,St.Joan (2nd Story Theatre) *Motif Award/Best Professional Male Performance; When Mahalia Sings, Jesus Hopped the A-Train,King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing (Mixed Magic Theatre); Mr. Marmalade, HurlyBurly, Three Sisters (Epic Theatre Company) ; The Visit (Contemporary Theatre Company); Julius Caesar (Burbage Theatre Company); String Theory, Ophelia's Cotillion ( Rites and Reasons); Company (Barker Playhouse); Little Shop of Horrors ( Rhode Island Stage Ensemble); The Cider House Rules, A Christmas Carol (The Artist Exchange) Jason is a lead singer in the acclaimed Mixed Magic Exult Choir. He resides in Pawtucket.
