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Notes from Molly:
Irma Vep may sound silly – and indeed it is extremely silly but it’s actually carefully crafted, inspired lunacy from the brilliant mind of Charles Ludlam, the late founder of New York's acclaimed Ridiculous Theatrical Company. No stereotype is safe and few cultural icons are left intact in a high-camp romp that challenges the way we view our world. If you love laughing in the theater at productions like our
Noises Off, you won’t want to miss this one!
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2007/08 season |
the mystery
of irma vep
by Charles Ludlam
directed by Rebecca Bayla Taichman
June 6 through July 13, 2008
in Crystal City
The show runs for two hours plus a 15-minute intermission
Watch a video trailer for the show and listen to interviews with the cast >
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Charles Ludlam’s hilarious Obie Award winner
gleefully ransacks literary, cinematic and
pop culture as it satirizes everything from
Hitchcock’s Rebecca and Victorian Melodrama
to The Mummy's Curse, the Brontës and
Shakespeare.
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On a "dark and stormy night,” Lady Enid
(newly married to the controversial Lord
Edgar) arrives at an estate under the spell
of his deceased first wife and haunted by
something that’s prowling the moors. She
quickly encounters a werewolf, a vampire,
an Egyptian princess and the mystery of
Irma Vep, whose portrait hangs over the
fireplace. With dozens of lightning-fast
changes, Brad Oscar (Tony-nominated on Broadway
for The Producers) and J. Fred Shiffman
(She Loves Me, Cabaret) portray all the
characters men, women and monsters – in
a gender-bending tour-de-farce. close
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Cast
Brad Oscar
(Lady Enid Hillcrest/Nicodemus Underwood/Alcazar/Pev Amri )
J. Fred Shiffman
(Lord Edgar Hillcrest/Jane Twisden/An Intruder)
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