Production History
Workshop and three dramatic readings
University of Richmond
Monday Night World Theater
Modlin Center for the Arts
Sept. 14, 15, 16 2009
Director: Walter Schoen
Stage Manager: Donna E. Coghill
Producer: Paul Kappel
CAST
Frieda: Dorothy Holland
Emile: Rusty Wilson
Alla: Irene Ziegler
Tamar: Julie Fulcher
Heather: GlennMary Carroll
Danny: Patrick Jones
Dramatic reading
Univ. of North Texas Dance and Theatre Dept., Feb. 4th, 2010
Director: Andy Harris
CAST
Frieda: Marjorie Hayes
Emile: Brian Hill
Alla: Candace Cockerham
Tamar: Victoria Eaton
Heather: Kerry Goldmann
Danny: Andrew Bourgeois
God/Narrator: Andrew Aguilar
Staged reading at The Players
New York City, May 17, 2011
Director: James Lawson
CAST
Emile: John Martello
Frieda: Marjorie Hayes
Tamar: Sharoon O’Connell
Heather: Claire Lucido
Danny: Douglas Harvey
Alla: Karin de la Penha
Staged Reading
Black Box Theatre, Palm Springs High School, May 24, 2011
Director: David Catanzarite
Staged Reading
Carousel Theatre, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, April 20, 2013
Directed by Dennis E. Perkins
CAST
Frieda: Eileen Conway
Emile: Zack Allen
Tamar: Amy Hubbard
Heather: Jenny Cunic
Danny/young Emile: Brandon Wilhoit
Alla: Katie Norwood Alley
Full production
in German (translated by Hartmut Frank), as “Was Euch Gehört”Bayreuth, StadtHalle, Kleines Haus, Sept. 27, 2014.
Director: Jan Burdinski
Scenery: Karin Pollak
CAST
Frieda: Marsha Cox
Emil: Markus Veith
Tamar: Laura Mann
Heather: Bettina Wagner
Danny: Alexander Boock
Alla: Carolin Barczyk
Young Frieda: Kirsten Annika Lange
Young Emil: Lars Eichhorn
In 2015 there were three further performances of the same production:
9/25/15 in Ambach/Ursensollen
9/27/15 in Darmstadt
9/28/15 in Frankfur
In these there were two new actors for
Alla: Karin Schubert
Young Frieda: Heidi Lehnert
Published in Japan
translated by Keiko Kawashima, Izumi Shuppan Insatsu, Osaka, 2014, http://www.ne.jp/asahi/kaeru/kawashima/play/
Published in German
trans. H. Frank and C. Reichert, Cantus Verlag, Eschach, 2015.
Published in 2015 by Dos Madres Press, Loveland, OH.
Staged rehearsed reading
at Isabel Bader Theatre of Queens University, Kingston, Ont. Canada
Director: Craig Walker, with music (Chopin) by John Burge, piano
CAST
Danny: Owen Strong
Heather: Rebecca Solway
Tamar: Hollie Stewart
Frieda, 81: Carolyn Hetherington
Frieda, 32: Anna Sudac
Emile, 55: Craig Walker
Emile, 6: Colin McLeod
Alla: Amie Bello
Full production in Japanese
at Theatre, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan, Nov. 1, 3, 5, 6.
Director: Ryou Tadaki
Stage Designer: Takeyoshi Ishimatsu
Frida: Mizume Ito
Emile: Ryou Tadaki
Tamar: Momen Ichitani
Heather: Yukari Fujinatsu
Danny: Takuya Nakayama
Young Frida: Emi Ando
Young Emile: Yuuto Takano, Haruto Nonoyama
Alla Olesko: Toshiko Naganawa
Myroslav Olesko: Douryu Shibata
Uncle Ernie: Yuta Nakamura
God: Kiyoshi Tamaki
Angels: Norio Sakurai, Yu Nagasei, Fuko Ando, Yasutaka Murata, Atsuya Suzuki, Yuki Nakamura
Full production in Japanese in 2017,
directed by Hitoshi Uyama, former director of New National Theatre, Tokyo:
May 18 in Kodaira
May 26-28 in Noto
May 30-31 in Nishinomiya
June 2nd in Tajimi
June 4 in Chiryu
June 14-25 in Tokyo (Shin Kokuritsu Theater, 400 seats)