The Wood Demon
Written by: Anton Chekhov, In a World Premiere Translation by Nicholas Saunders & Frank Dwyer
Directed by: Frank Dwyer
Recommended for Ages 16+
Recommended for Ages 16+
The Sixth Event of the 1993-1994 Season at the Mark Taper Forum
Act I – The garden on Zheltoukhin’s estate. After 2:00 p.m. Intermission Act II – The Serebryakov’s dining room. After 1:00 a.m. Act III – The Serebryakov’s living room. Daytime. Intermission Act IV – The forest. The house by the water mill. Late afternoon.
PRODUCTION TEAM
Set and Lighting Design: D. Martyn Bookwalter
Costume Design: Holly Poe Durbin
Sound Design: Jon Gottlieb
Music Composed by Theo Saunders
Production Stage Manager: Jill Ragaway
Cast
John Achorn
SEMYON
John Apicella*
Waffles/Sergey/Yefim/Semyon
Anne Gee Byrd*
Marya Vassiliyevna
Nike Doukas*
Sonya/Yelena
Dakin Matthews
Serebryakov/Zhorzh
Lawrence Pressman
Zhorzh
Janellen Steininger*
YULYA/MAID
Raphael Sbarge
Zheltoukhin/Wood Demon
Nicholas Saunders
Orlovsky/Serebryakov
Jeremy Lawrence
Waffles/Sergey/Yefim/Semyon
Eric Allan Kramer
Fyodor
Marsha Dietlein
Yulya/Sonya/Maid
Frank Dwyer
Waffles/Orlovsky/Serebryakov
Mark Harelik
Wood Demon
Dan Kern
Zhorzh/Fyodor/Vassili
Donald Sage Mackay
Vassili/Fyodor/Yefim/Zheltoukhin
Rose Portillo
Sonya/Marya Vassiliyevna
Mary Stark
Maid/Marya Vassiliyevna/Yulya/Yelena
Lorraine Toussaint
Yelena
John Walcutt
Zheltoukhin/Wood Demon