Winter Rep 24 Digital Playbill - Flipbook - Page 4
Updated for the Off Broadway Winter Rep in NYC
DRINKS WITH DEAD POETS
Adapted by Glyn Maxwell
From his novel of the same name
Directed by Attilio Rigotti
Cast
ELISE STONE .......................................................................................Ashling
JOHN LENARTZ ……...............................................……………………Max
ANTONIO EDWARDS SUÁREZ .............................................................Zack
Production Team
Craig Smith — Production Stage Manager
Tony Mulanix — Lighting Design
Ellen Mandel — Sound Design
Debbi Hobson — Costume Design
Buffy Cardoza — Props Designer
Orsolya Szánthó — Tchnology Design
Rodney Perez — Board Operator
Josh F. S. Moser — Dialect Coach
Place: A Bar. The Village of Nyack, New York, America
Run time: 70 minutes without intermission
The Actors and Stage Managers employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity
Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
Director’s Note
“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather
said. […] Something your hand touched some way, so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that 昀氀ower
you planted, you’re there.”– Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
When I 昀椀rst heard Glyn Maxwell’s play, I was sure it was a delicious
satire. The second time I read it, it felt foreboding, a clever twist on
speculative 昀椀ction. The third time, a vicious documentary of what was
going on around us. The fourth time, a mournful eulogy for the end of
literature. The 昀椀fth time, a 昀氀ame of hope for the survival of imagination.