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Frankenstein or, the modern prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
You only think you know this story. Gothic thriller, passionate romance, and a cautionary tale rolled into one, Mary Shelley’s seminal horror story of an obsessed young scientist and his monstrous creation has become a world-wide cultural icon. Book-It Adaptor/ Director David Quicksall, who created the breathtaking Moby-Dick, or The Whale for the company, will helm this production.
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Jesus’ Son
by Denis Johnson Adapted by Jeff Schwager | Directed by Josh Aaseng
cast Scott Ward Abernethy Zach Adair Sydney Andrews Tonya Andrews Adrienne Clark David Goldstein Kevin McKeon Evan Whitfield Victoria Thompson Emma Pihl†
Fuckhead Georgie / Ensemble Michelle / Ensemble Beverly / Ensemble Nurse with Black Eye / Ensemble Dundun / Ensemble DJ / Ensemble Emergency Doctor / Ensemble Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager
musicians Annie Jantzer Owen Ross
Artistic Team Catherine Cornell Kent Cubbage Jocelyne Fowler Nathan Wade Kathleen Le Coze Will Abrahamse
Scenic Designer Lighting Designer Costume Designer Sound Designer Properties Master Production Manager
† Book-It Intern
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The hero of Denis Johnson’s Jesus’s Son is a nameless twentysomething who wanders the western United States in the early 1970s, under the thrall of drugs, alcohol, and a hedonistic lifestyle that leads him to the brink of both glory and despair. Based on that description, it’s not necessarily the sort of thing that would appeal to me, but when I first came across one of the 11 tales that make up the collection there was no summary attached. It was just a short story in the Spring 1989 Paris Review called “Car Crash While Hitchhiking”—a great title, and one Scott Ward Abernethy and Andrew DeRycke in Book-It’s Jesus’ Son (2012). that convinced me to give the story a try. What I read blew my young writer’s mind—the way it moved back and forth in time; the fevered, poetic language; the constant drift between the amoral and the divine. After I read it, I sought out everything by Johnson I could find, but though I loved his novels and poems, there was nothing that could touch that story—until another story about the same character, “Emergency,” appeared in The New Yorker. If “Car Crash” was the fictional equivalent of film noir, “Emergency” was a demented slapstick comedy, about a pair of stoners working the graveyard shift in a Midwest hospital. It’s both hilarious and transcendently moving, and many people—myself included—consider it the most remarkable short story ever written. The book Jesus’ Son came out to general acclaim in 1992; The New York Times’ critic called it “a masterpiece of compression and moral entropy.” Twenty years later, when I approached Book-It about turning it into a play, I had no idea how to do it or what I was getting myself into. What I knew was that it would be a true adventure to spend some time in Johnson’s world; to take the book apart and try to figure out how it worked; to get down in the playground of his words and hear a group of talented actors speak them over and over and revel in their beauty. I knew music would be an important part of the show, because it was such an important part of that era, and in my mind there were songs that spoke directly to the emotions and characters in the book. And lastly, or perhaps firstly, I knew that Book-It, and director Josh Aaseng, would know what to do with the script once I had written it. The adventure we’ve all gone on has been even greater than the one I imagined. I hope you’ll feel the same way.
jeff schwager Adapter
I had never even heard of the book Jesus’ Son until Jeff Schwager walked into the Book-It offices almost two years ago and told us that it was his favorite book and some of the best writing he had ever encountered. I picked up a copy and was immediately attracted to the vividly drawn characters and the near hypnotic, poetic language of Denis Johnson’s prose. Its characters, its non-linear structure composed of vignettes that take the reader in and out of consciousness, dropping into new locales with each story, and slipping in and out of time, all beckoned for a theatrical adaptation. In October of 2012 we presented a limited, site-specific production of Jesus’ Son at the Rendezvous Bar and Lounge in Belltown as the inaugural presentation of Book-It’s experimental series Circumbendibus. When the brief two-night engagement was over, we felt as though we had only scratched the surface of the work, and immediately began looking for opportunities to further develop the piece. from It is wonderful to be working again in the world of Jesus’ Son. For me, the heart of this story continues to be the characters, most notably Fuckhead—unapologetically flawed and beautifully human. The candor of Johnson’s language invites us to understand and befriend him, not to judge. The characters are all real people with real hearts and burdens, all trying in their way to be free. In producing this adaptation our desire is to create a theatrical vocabulary that embodies the immediacy and visceral nature of the language. Just as Johnson reduces the space between reader and author, my ambition with this material has always been to condense the space between spectator and performer. I am fortunate to have found such generous collaborators who share a similar passion and theatrical vision for the material. I am indebted to David Urrutia and Elizabeth Cuthrell of Evenstar Films for granting us the theatrical rights to the material, and eternally grateful to Denis Johnson for his blessing on the project. I’ve discovered that a special kinship exists among those who love Jesus’ Son—those who discovered it long ago and those, like me, who more recently came to it. I hope that after tonight you’ll be counted one among us.
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Josh Aaseng Director
meet the author: Denis johnson An award-winning novelist, short story writer, poet, and playwright, Johnson is the author of numerous novels, including Fiskadoro (1985), Nobody Move (2009), and Tree of Smoke, winner of the 2007 National Book Award. Jesus’ Son (1992), his collection of short stories, was made into a movie of the same name. Johnson’s work often depicts characters on the margins of society. “[Johnson] convinces me that he suffers over the anomie he describes. He is hard on himself, as well as on the culture; and he is agonizingly aware that life can be, and has been, different from the life around him . . . he knows how to use his eyes.” wrote Alan Williamson in the New York Times Book Review. At one time addicted to drugs and alcohol, Johnson’s literary output increased significantly after he became sober. In 1973 he was homeless in Berkeley, California, an experience he recounted in a New Yorker essay“Homeless and High.” Denis Johnson has received a Lannan Literary Award for Fiction and a Whiting Writer’s Award. Bio adapted from www.poetryfoundation.org
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Tonya Andrews
Beverly / Ensemble
Cast
Scott Ward Abernethy Fuckhead
Scott is thrilled to be a part of this amazing team and grateful for the opportunity to revisit Jesus’ Son. Seattle credits include The Servant of Two Masters at Seattle Rep; Boyet in Seattle Shakespeare Company’s production of Love’s Labour’s Lost and Ariel in The Tempest with their Wooden O Theatre; Reverb in Tall Skinny Cruel Cruel Boys at Washington Ensemble Theatre; and Count Vronsky in Anna Karenina. Other professional credits include Hastings in Henry IV, Part 2 and Bazin in Man in the Iron Mask with Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Autolycus in The Winter’s Tale with Island Stage Left, and Frankie Avid in Shine!: A Burlesque Musical at Theatre Off Jackson. Scott received his MFA in acting from UW in 2012.
Zach Adair
Georgie / Ensemble
Zach is pleased to be revisiting his role in Jesus’ Son. He was most recently seen in this summer’s “all virgin” 14/48. When not on stage, Zach can be found teaching at Village Theatre in Everett.
Sydney Andrews Michelle / Ensemble Sydney is so happy to return to Book-It this season! Recent work includes Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Antony & Cleopatra at Seattle Shakespeare Company, Undo at Annex Theatre, The Trial at New Century Theatre, and Pippi Longstocking at Seattle Children’s Theatre. She is also a proud member of The Seagull Project, and will be playing Irina in their upcoming production of Three Sisters. Sydney has worked at ZACH Theatre, Austin Shakespeare, the Berkshire Theatre Fest., and the Children’s Theatre of Charlotte. This Christmas season, you can see Sydney as the Ghost of Christmas Past in ACT Theatre’s annual production of A Christmas Carol. Sydney received her MFA from the University of Texas at Austin.
Tonya is delighted to be working with Book-It for the first time. She was last seen in Seattle Shakespeare Company’s Wooden O Theatre’s The Tempest directed by Kelly Kitchens and New Century Theatre Company’s The Trial directed by John Langs. Tonya spent five seasons touring with Montana Shakespeare in the Parks. She received her MFA in acting from the University of Arkansas and studied Shakespeare at Kingston University in London.
Adrienne Clark
Nurse with Black Eye / Ensemble Adrienne Clark is an actor, musician, and educator from Seattle, WA. She co-founded the Seattle theater ensemble The Satori Group in 2005 and is a member of the band The West. www.bandthewest.com
David Goldstein
Dundun / Ensemble
David has previously appeared at Book-It in Prairie Nocturne, A Confederacy of Dunces, Giant, Travels With Charley, Red Ranger Came Calling, Baseball Stories, and a number of Arts and Education touring shows and Special Editions. He has also written and directed pieces for Book-It’s Guilty Pleasures and Geek Out, part of Book-It inaugural Circumbendibus series. Other Seattle credits include Jackie & Me and The Neverending Story with Seattle Children’s Theatre; The Three Musketeers with Seattle Repertory Theatre; The Two Gentleman of Verona, Macbeth, Cymbeline, and The Comedy of Errors with Seattle Shakespeare Company; August: Osage County and Dog Sees God with Balagan Theatre; Seattle Shakespeare Company’s Wooden O Theatre, Theater Schmeater, 14/48, Theater Anonymous, Endangered Species Project, Strawberry Theatre Workshop, and more. David is a graduate of Cornish College of the Arts.
Kevin McKeon DJ / Ensemble
Kevin is happy to be acting with Book-It again. In past years he has been seen in A Confederacy of Dunces, Persuasion, Plainsong, Ethan Frome, The Awakening, and Cowboys
Evan Whitfield
Emergency Doctor / Ensemble
meet the
Are My Weakness, among others. Recent work includes roles in Bach in Leipzig at Taproot Theatre Company, Superior Donuts at Seattle Public Theater (Gregory Award nominee), and A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Seattle Shakespeare Company.
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Jeff Schwager Adapter
Evan returns to Book-It Repertory Theatre after playing Matt Prior in The Financial Lives of the Poets and Stiva in Anna Karenina last season. He has performed on Seattle stages for over a decade with ACT Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Seattle Shakespeare Company’s Wooden O Theatre, Strawberry Theatre Workshop, and Taproot Theatre Company. In addition to Matt Prior, favorite roles include Jeff in Lobby Hero and Walker/Ned in Three Days of Rain, both at Seattle Public Theater, and Eugene Wright in John Longenbaugh’s How to be Cool.
Jeff is pleased to return to Book-It’s “second stage” with an expanded version of his adaptation of Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson, following last year’s inaugural Circumbendibus production at the Rendezvous. As a critic and journalist, Jeff has written extensively about movies, music, theatre, and literature. He has also worked as an executive and editor for a variety of entertainment companies and publications. His next project will be Book-It’s world premiere production of his stage version of Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, directed by Myra Platt, premiering in June 2014.
musicians
Josh Aaseng
Owen Ross Owen is a producer, composer and multi-instrumentalist and is pleased to appear in Jesus’ Son at Book-It. He grew up in a musical family steeped in the traditional celtic music scene of New York, where he studied with Smithsonian recording artist Brian Conway and began performing at a young age on the violin. He majored in music at the University of Montana, where he studied classical guitar, composition/arranging, electronic music production, and classical and jazz harmony. Since arriving on the Seattle scene in 2009, Owen has produced several independent albums and has performed with numerous bands and artists both locally and across the west coast.
Annie Jantzer Annie is a Seattle vocalist and actor. She has been seen on stage and TV, performing with groups such as The Seattle Rock Orchestra, Bucket of Honey, The Bushwick Book Club, Balagan Theatre, 14/48, T&A Supply, and Pork Chop Trio. Annie studied music and theater at Central Washington University in her hometown, Ellensburg, Wash.
Director
Josh is an actor and director based in Seattle. Directing credits include Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Bar Mitzvah of Jesus Goldfarb, Passion, and The Seagull (asst. dir, The Seagull Project). Josh is the literary manager for Book-It Repertory Theatre and a member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab. He graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.
Catherine Cornell Scenic Designer
Catherine arrived in Seattle just over a year ago and hit the local theatre scene designing shows such as West of Lenin’s Master Harold... and the boys, Annex Theatre’s Undo, and Azeotrope’s Red Light Winter and 25 Saints. She has worked with Book-It Repertory Theatre designing scenery for the Arts and Education Program and props for Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Uncensored, The Financial Lives of the Poets, and She’s Come Undone. Her pre-Seattle credits include working as a scenic artist on Oz: The Great and Powerful for Walt Disney Pictures, scenic designer on Cloud Nine for the University of Michigan, and scenic designer on Cabaret for MUSKET. www.catcornell.com
Kent Cubbage
Lighting Designer This is Kent’s second show with Book-It, following last year’s Geek Out. Most recently, his work has been seen
in Satori Group’s The Land is Always Known. Other local designs include Seattle Shakespeare Company’s Love’s Labour’s Lost, which was Gregory nominated for lighting, Coriolanus, which was named Seattle Weekly’s Play of the Year, and The Merry Wives of Windsor. He is a resident designer at Theatre Off Jackson, The Triple Door, the Neptune, and the Crocodile. Local assists include Chicago at Village Theatre, Sugar Daddies, Assisted Living, and Double Indemnity at ACT Theatre, and Elf at The 5th Avenue Theatre. He also taught lighting design for Seattle University last spring. Regional assists include shows at the Guthrie, the McCarter, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, and multiple Broadway productions.
Jocelyne Fowler Costume Designer
Jocelyne has designed for Book-It Repertory Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company’s Wooden O Theatre, Seattle Musical Theatre, Vashon Opera, Youth Theatre Northwest, Harlequin Productions, Theatre 9/12, SecondStory Repertory, ReAct Theatre, Live Girls! Theatre, Ghost Light Theatricals, and Seattle Pacific University. Upcoming work can be seen in Richard II at Seattle Shakespeare Company, Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus at Book-It Repertory Theatre, Spring Awakening at Youth Theatre Northwest, Young Frankenstein at Seattle Musical Theatre, and Werther at Vashon Opera.
Nathan Wade
Sound Designer Nathan is a local composer and sound designer who spends much of his time balancing music with fatherhood (the latter being a recent development). As a Book-It veteran, his musical and audio handiwork has been featured in stage adaptations of Border Songs, Moby Dick, or The Whale, Don Quixote, and Dracula: Jonathan Harker’s Journal. www.nathanwademusic.com
Kathleen Le Coze Properties Master
Kathleen is new to Book-It after graduating from Cornish College of the Arts’s performance production department last spring. She has worked on Book-It’s She’s Come Undone as well as Much Ado About Nothing with Seattle Shakespeare Company as the properties artisan. Other credits include Bengal Tiger at the Bagdad Zoo with Washington Ensemble Theatre and scenic design for Kiss Me, Kate with Village Theatre’s Kidstage in Issaquah; Failure: A Love Story, Bat Boy: The Musical, and Cloud Nine, all with Cornish. You can continue to see her work all season long at Book-It, Seattle Shakespeare Company, and with various other projects at Village’s Kidstage program.
Victoria Thompson Stage Manager
Victoria is the production stage manager for Book-It Repertory Theatre, where she has worked on numerous productions including Moby Dick, or The Whale; The Cider House Rules, Parts I and II; Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Uncensored; and most recently, She’s Come Undone. Other credits include The Tempest and Twelfth Night, or What You Will with Seattle Shakespeare Company’s Wooden O Theatre, The Skriker with Janice Findley Productions, Love Horse with Washington Ensemble Theatre, and several productions with Seattle Shakespeare Company Educational Touring Program.
Emma Pihl
Assistant Stage Manager
Emma is excited to be working with Book-It on Jesus’ Son. A recent graduate of St. Olaf College, Emma is the stage management intern for Book-It’s 2013-14 season, working on both Book-It’s mainstage shows and educational touring productions. Previous stage management credits include The Tempest and Marry Me a Little with St. Olaf College and the original production of Waiting… A Song Cycle with St. Olaf ’s Deep End Productions.
Will Abrahamse
Production Manager With more than a decade in theatre and nearly 100 productions under his belt, Will’s work as a set designer and scenic artist has been seen on the stages of Tacoma Musical Playhouse, ArtsWest Playhouse and Gallery, and Coeur d’Alene Summer Theatre, among others. He has served as the technical director for Tacoma Musical Playhouse and ArtsWest Playhouse and Gallery. Throughout the years, Will has worked closely with the drama programs of Auburn Riverside High School and Enumclaw High School, helping to foster the next generation of theatre technicians. Will studied technical theatre and architecture at Washington State University and The University of Idaho.
Jane Jones
Founder & Founding Co-Artistic Director Jane is the founder of Book-It and founding co-artistic director of Book-It Repertory Theatre, with Myra Platt. In her 24 years of staging literature, she has performed, adapted, and directed works by such literary giants as Charles Dickens, Eudora Welty, Edith Wharton, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Pam Houston, Raymond Carver, Frank O’Connor, Ernest Hemingway, Colette, Amy Bloom, John Irving, John Steinbeck, Daphne du Maurier, Jane Austen, and Mark Twain. A veteran actress of 30 years, she has played leading roles in many of America’s most prominent
regional theatres. Most recently, she played the role of Miss Havisham in Book-It’s Great Expectations. Film and TV credits include The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Singles, Homeward Bound, “Twin Peaks,” and Rose Red. She codirected with Tom Hulce at Seattle Rep, Peter Parnell’s adaptation of John Irving’s The Cider House Rules, which enjoyed successful runs here in Seattle, at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles (Ovation Award, best director) and in New York (Drama Desk Nomination, best director). Jane directed Pride and Prejudice and Twelfth Night at Portland Center Stage which won the 2008 Drammy award for Best Direction and Production. For Book-It, she has directed Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Uncensored, The House of Mirth, The Highest Tide, Travels with Charley, Pride and Prejudice, Howard’s End, In a Shallow Grave, The Awakening, Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant, A Tale of Two Cities, and The Cider House Rules, Parts I and II, winner of the 2010 and 2011 Gregory Awards for Outstanding Production. In 2008 she, Myra Platt, and Book-It were honored to be named by the Seattle Times among seven Unsung Heroes and Uncommon Genius for their 20-year contribution to life in the Puget Sound region. She is a recipient of the 2009 Women’s University Club of Seattle Brava Award, a 2010 Women of Influence award from Puget Sound Business Journal, and the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation’s 20th Anniversary Founders Grant, and was a finalist for the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation’s 2012 Zelda Fichandler Award.
Myra Platt
Founding Co-Artistic Director As co-founder, director, adapter, actor, and composer, Myra has helped Book-It produce over 100 world premieres. She adapted and directed The Financial Lives of the Poets, The River Why, Night Flight, Red Ranger Came Calling, The House of the Spirits, Giant, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Cowboys Are My Weakness, Roman Fever, A Little Cloud, A Telephone Call, and A Child’s Christmas in Wales. Other directing credits include Persuasion, Plainsong, Cry, the Beloved Country, and Sweet Thursday. She adapted The Art of Racing in the Rain, co-adapted Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant with Jane Jones, and composed music for Prairie Nocturne, Night Flight (with Joshua Kohl), Red Ranger Came Calling (with Edd Key), The Awakening, Ethan Frome, Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant, A Child’s Christmas in Wales, A Telephone Call, and I Am of Ireland. Her acting credits include Prairie Nocturne, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, The Awakening (West Los Angeles Garland Award), Howards End, and The Cider House Rules, Parts I and II (original production). Myra has performed at Seattle Repertory Theatre, Intiman, New City Theatre, and the Mark Taper Forum. Myra is the recipient, with Jane Jones, of the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation Founders Award, the 2010
Women of Influence from Puget Sound Business Journal, and was named by Seattle Times an Unsung Hero and Uncommon Genius for their 20-year contribution to life in the Puget Sound region.
charlotte m. tiencken Managing Director
Charlotte is an administrator, director, producer, and educator who has been working in the producing and presenting fields for 28 years. Before moving back to the Seattle area in September 2003, she was general manager at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in Massachusetts. As president of her own consulting firm, Scarlet Productions, she has worked with companies across the country, including Chitresh Das Dance Company in San Francisco, Ben Munisteri Dance in New York, Seattle Theatre Group, EnJoy Productions in Seattle, and Westwind, in Oregon among many others. She has taught at Seattle Pacific University, the University of Washington, The Evergreen State College, and the University of Puget Sound. She has been an adjunct faculty member at Lesley University in Cambridge, Mass. for seven years. Charlotte is a member of SDC, the union of stage directors and choreographers and is past president of the Board of Arts Northwest. She has served on the Board of the Pat Graney Dance Company, on granting panels for the Washington State Arts Commission and 4 Culture, and was president of the Board of Theatre Puget Sound. Her most recent directing credits include Into the Woods for Vashon Drama Dock, Eugene Onegin for Vashon Opera, and Rashomon for Seattle Pacific University. She lives on Vashon Island with her husband Bill, three cats, and two dogs.
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founded in 1913, represents more than 45,000 actors and stage managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO, and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. The Equity emblem is our mark. Book-It Repertory Theatre is a proud member of
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special thanks to Liza Comtois, Ghost Light Theatricals, Dawne Gleeson, Geoff Larson, Megan Muir, R90 Lighting, Photon Funtimes, Clare Strasser, The University of Washington Book-It gratefully acknowledges Denis Johnson for permission to include excerpts of poems from his 1982 collection The Incognito Lounge and David Urrutia and Elizabeth Cuthrell of Evenstar Films for permission to adapt Jesus’ Son for the stage.
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meet book-it
Book-It Repertory Theatre is a non-profit organization dedicated to transforming great literature into great theatre through simple and sensitive production and to inspiring its audiences to read. 2010 Mayor’s Arts Award-winner and recipient of the 2012 Governor’s Arts Award, Book-It was founded 24 years ago as an artists’ collective, adapting short stories for performance and touring them throughout the Northwest. Today, with over 100 world-premiere adaptations of literature to its credit—many of which have garnered rave reviews and gone on to subsequent productions all over the country—Book-It is widely respected for the consistent artistic excellence of its work.
the book-it styletm
Book-It creates world-premiere adaptations of classic and contemporary literature for the stage, preserving the narrative text as it is spoken, not by a single “narrator” but as dialogue by the characters in the production. This technique was developed over the last 25 years and continues to be developed by BookIt artists led by Founding Co-Artistic Directors, Jane Jones and Myra Platt. Performing books instead of plays allows the Book-It theatre experience to spark the audience’s interest in reading and to challenge the audience to participate by using their imaginations. Book-It’s unique style of acting and adapting books is trademarked, known as the Book-It Style™.
can you say “circumbendibus?” circumbendibus [ sêr-kêm-ben-dê-bês ] —n 1. a roundabout route or process 2. Book-It’s new second stage series
Part variety show, part site-specific theatre, all parts daring, Circumbendibus performs bold new adaptations of everything from books to blogs, poetry to twitter posts—let’s see how far the Book-It Style will go!
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Book-It Repertory Theatre’s
2013-14 Season Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley february 12 - march 9
truth like the sun by Jim LYnch april 23 - may 18
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon june 7 - july 13
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