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The Flu Season

by Will Eno • directed by Ben Fainstein

April 21st-May 5th, 2007
Performing at The Arsenal Center for the Arts Black Box

Thursdays at 8pm
Fridays at 8:30pm
Saturdays at 2pm and 8:30pm
Sundays at 2:30pm

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Single Ticket: $25
Under 30: $20
Student: $10

StageSource Member discount: 2 for $20
Circle of Friends discount: 2 for $20

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Winner of the 2004 Oppenheimer Award for best New York debut by an American playwright, Will Eno's The Flu Season is a reluctant love story. The play follows the lives of four people trying to survive the winter in a psychiatric hospital. Shaped and re-shaped by two Narrators, the play navigates the swells and slumps of the ever-shifting human heart, which eventually spiral out of control.

Smart and funny, The Flu
Season is "vicious stuff, written in a language so deceptively innocent, so full of platitudes, that you don't realize it has cut you deep until you feel the warm seep of bloody despair."
(The Guardian)

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the Company

Shelley Brown

Shelley Brown studied theater at SUNY Albany and Tufts University.  She has performed with many local theater companies, including SpeakEasy, TheatreZone, Boston Theatre Works, Nora Theatre Company , Theater Cooperative, Vokes Players and Arlington Friends of the Drama.  She has also served as understudy for several productions at the Huntington Theatre.  She was nominated for an IRNE best acting award for her performance as Bessie in Marvin's Room and she was awarded a best acting commendation by EMACT for her performance as Ruella in Communicating Doors.

Ed Hoopman

Ed Hoopman is excited to be making his Whistler In The Dark debut. He recently concluded two amazing projects: performing the title role in Hamlet for New Rep On Tour, and playing Michael in Dancing at Lughnasa with Way Theatre Artists. Past performances include Alden Hammond in Company One’s critically acclaimed Boston debut of After Ashley,Nicholas in Commonwealth Shakespeare Company’s The Taming of the Shrew, Aug in Spring Chicken or When I Flew the Coop (Hijinx Unlimited), Bernie in Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love (Boston Director’s Lab), Dim in Company One’s A Clockwork Orange, and numerous roles in the Devanaughn Theater’s 2006 Dragonfly Festival. Ed is also an accomplished voiceover actor in and around Boston (edhoopman.com).

David LeBahn

David LeBahn is making his Boston area stage premiere with The Flu Season!  He has been seen previously in the award winning film Deadroll (Jeff Forest), the independent film Who's Famous Now (Deputy Drais), and episodes of Medical Detectives, Forensic Files, and in a new commercial for the web site Super Deluxe.  Some past stage experience includes True West (Austin), Petrified Forest (Allen), Hot L Baltimore (Jamie), Laughter On The 23rd Floor (Ira), Charley's Aunt (Charley), The Price (Walter), and, Bermuda Avenue Triangle (John Palucci) for which he won the Jason Miller Award for Best Actor.  He is currently studying to be an RN.  He would like to thank Bob for putting up with all his nonsense!

Nael Nacer

Nael Nacer is excited to make his Whistler in the Dark debut. Nael was recently seen in Wesley Savick's Waters Rising with the National Theatre of Allston. Other credits include Polaroid Stories with Tinderbox Stage Co., The Last Days of Judas Iscariot with Company One, A Number with Payomet Performing Arts Center, Shouting Theatre in a Crowded Fire with the National Theatre of Allston, and Bent with SouthCity Theatre. He is also the recipient of a 2003 National Acting Fellowship from KC/ACTF for his portrayal of Berenger in Rhinoceros. Thanks to the cast and crew, and to Dana for her love and support.

Meghan

Meghan Nesmith holds a B.A. from Middlebury College in Theatre and English. Past acting credits include One Flea Spare, The Bewitched (KC/ACTF National Finalist), Love Song of the Electric Bear (Potomac Theatre Project), and Roberto Zucco (British American Drama Academy). She is elated to have this opportunity to work with Whistler in the Dark. Meghan would like to thank everyone who is currently helping her to lay her stepping stones.

Jen O'Connor

Jennifer O'Connor is an Artistic Associate of Whistler in the Dark, with whom she has performed in four productions. She graduated from Salem State with a BFA in theatre performance. She has worked with Chelsea's Theatre Zone, Aforementioned Productions, and Imaginary Beasts where she is Company Manager. For three years and counting she has been "Lex... your wench for the evening" at The King's Feast in Pawtucket, RI.

 

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