Sylvia Plath Must Not Die (2008)
Produced by
One Yellow Rabbit Performance Theate
Director: Blake Brooker
Venue
Run
December 2nd, 2008 – December 13th, 2008
Synopsis
Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton, two of the 20th century’s most prolific and complex literary figures, are inexorably linked, as much by their mutual zeal for life as by their infamous deaths.
They met in a poetry class, but their friendship flared over martinis at the Ritz, where they spilled stories of psychiatry and suicide, delighting in a mutual disdain for taboo. Their insatiable appetites, sexual and intellectual, defied strait-jacketed social norms and their prescribed roles as mothers and wives. Together, their writing sparked a revolution in American poetry, bringing personal confession to the forefront of verse by pounding frustration and turmoil onto typewritten pages.
In their newest original work, the award-winning One Yellow Rabbit Performing Ensemble invites audiences on a voyeuristic journey to another era, where cocktails are swilled and conflicted souls are expressed in a cathartic torrent of ink and emotion. Using the text of Plath and Sexton as a springboard, they tackle themes of power, madness, extinction and survival, presenting poetry as it should be: fierce, fervent and devastating. (www.oyr.org/archives)
Cast
| Denise Clarke | Anne Sexton |
| Andy Curtis | Kayo Sexton |
| Onalea Gilbertson | Sylvia Plath |
| Michael Green | Ted Hughes |
Creative Team
| Blake Brooker | Director |
| Denise Clarke | Staging |
| Scott Baier | Lighting Designer |
| Richard McDowell | Sound Designer |
| Michelle Kennedy | Assistant Director |
Production
| Ailsa Birnie | Stage Manager |
| Scott Baier | Production Manager |
| Stephen Schroeder | Producer |
| David Crosson | Costume Consultant |
Staff
| Greg Poulin | Production Manager |
| Mike Ledermueller | Technical Director |
| Stephanie Ripley | Assistant Technical Director |
| G. Stuart Baulch | House Technician |
| Jason Browning | House Technician |
| Pascale Thibodeau | House Technician |
