Theatrical Production

PROBLEM PLAY

Written & Directed by Erica Terpening-Romeo

CREATIVE AND PRODUCTION TEAM

Dramaturgy by Emily Trantanella

Scenic Design by Jenna McFarland Lord

Costume Design by Jessica Pribble

Lighting Design by Amanda Fallon

Sound Design by Anna Drummond

Production Stage Manager:  Karen Gallagher (’25)

CAST LIST

Mr. Knapp - Zeke D’Ascoli

Zo - Isabelle Bushkov

Dri - Devon Whitney

Megan - Rory O’Neill

Courtney - Ivy Kee

Lola - Mitra Sharif

Ivy - Abby Kesselman

Sloan - Trisha Barua

Max - Eve Davidson

Bobbi - Brenna Thornton

At Thornbrooke Academy for Troubled Girls, a private reform school for teens in the New England countryside, students live a life of restriction and disempowerment. But things change one morning when nine students decide to take their punitive teacher hostage, and take control of their auxiliary classroom. In this tiny space they claim for themselves, the girls are able to throw off the strictures of Thornbrooke and exercise their own agency. But there’s one major problem: there’s no wifi, and nothing on the other side of that door but punishment for their crimes. So they make the strange and fateful choice to pass the time by rehearsing Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, the only book in the room with enough copies to go around.  Over the course of the next week, they camp out in their strange, cramped little kingdom, and grapple with justice, sex, leadership, and power through the pages of a problem play.

AUDIENCE INFORMATION

• All performances are in-person, live in the Studio Theatre in Curry Student Center (First Floor – next to the indoor quad above the food court).
• This performance will run approximately 2 hours including one 10 minute intermission.
• General seating (no assigned seating).
• No photography or video recording during performances.
• No late seating.
• No re-admission during performance.
• House opens approximately 20 minutes before performance time.  We encourage audience members to arrive to the theatre at least 15 minutes before the performance in order to find the theatre and select seats.