Master Class, 2000-01 Season Archive

The Cast
Dr. Prentice . . . . . David DeLoach
Geraldine Barclay . . . . . Melinda Eshbaugh
Mrs. Prentice. . . . . Jessica Kitchner
Nicholas Beckett . . . . . Ryan Freed
Dr. Rance. . . . . Jason Puff
Sgt. Match. . . . . Aaron Mays

Production Staff
Director . . . . . Jeff Montague
Set & Lighting Design . . . . . Tony Naylor
Costume Design . . . . . Ron Zastrow
Stage Manager . . . . . Monica Gutierrez
Asst. Stage Manager . . . . . Dustin Smith
Technical Direction . . . . . Tony Naylor
Scenic Studio Supervisor . . . . . Lynn Wilson
Cover Art . . . . . Barbara Waterman-Peters
Publicity . . . . . Paul Prece
Theatre Shop/Crew . . . . . David Deloach, Tawny Maynard, Dustin Smith, Stacy Myers,
Willard Bean, Aaron Mays, Melinda Eshbaugh
Wardrobe . . . . . Melinda Eshbaugh

Special Thanks -- Stormont-Vail and St. Francis Hospitals for helping make this production.

Joe Orton (1933-1967) achieved recognition, fame and notoriety as one of British drama's most scandalous innovator playwrights. His comedies which include Entertaining Mr. Sloane (1964), Loot (1965) and the posthumously performed What the Butler Saw (1969) are black comedy-stylish and violent. Using the classic forms of farce he mercilessly lampooned the prissy, middle-class values of this society targeting bourgeois society. His witty and savage dialogue, iconoclastic attacks on social conventions and outrageous approach to propriety have often caused critics to draw comparisons to the best of Restoration drama and to dialogue in the tradition of Oscar Wilde. His unique voice was silenced violently with his untimely death at the hands of his lover who then committed suicide.