The Blonde, the Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead
A New Comedic Thrill Ride
by Robert Hewett
directed by Eleanor Holdridge
April 26 – May 17, 2009
Every action has a reaction.
One crime has many points of view. One moment of passion alters several lives forever. One gifted performer plays seven very different roles in this international hit. After Rhonda Russell’s husband leaves her, she suspects him of cheating. Overwhelmed with emotion, she takes matters into her own hands and everyone pays the price in this captivatingly brilliant and heartfelt play about loss and ultimate redemption.
Running time: 2 hours, including one intermission.
Please note: This production contains adult language and themes.
"Kate Goehring’s gritty characterizations resonate with Triad Stage patrons. She clearly is up to all the challenges. Robert Hewett’s play provides eye-opening insights into a strange world in which relationships are not always what they seem."
– Lynn Jessup, Classical Voice of North Carolina
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| Robert Hewett (Playwright) began his theatrical career as an actor. An Honours graduate of Flinders University, he joined the Melbourne Theatre Company in 1972 before switching to writing. His first play, Just...One Last Dance, premiered in Auckland at the Mercury Theatre in 1980. The Melbourne Theatre Company produced his second and highly acclaimed 1983 play Gulls (Green Room Award for Best Play, short listed in the inaugural Premier's Literary Awards). Productions followed on five continents including Great Britain, playing Bristol Old Vic, Leicester Haymarket, Glasgow Tron and Shaw Theatre London. The Blonde, the Brunette, and the Vengeful Redhead opened to high praise at The Stables Sydney in 2004 and toured Australia for 3 years with productions in Switzerland, Canada (Stratford Festival) and New Zealand. United States productions include: Asolo Repertory, DallasTheaterCenter, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, and Milwaukee Repertory Theater. Mr. Hewett's other writing credits include The Adman, Waking Eve, Goodbye Mrs. Blore, Showday and Taught by Experts. | |
| Eleanor Holdridge (Director) Triad Stage: Art, Noises Off. Off-Broadway: Steve & Idi (Rattlestick Playwright’s Theater), Cycling Past the Matterhorn (Clurman Theatre), The Imaginary Invalid and Mary Stuart (Pearl Theatre). Regional productions include: Gee’s Bend (Arden Theater); Hamlet, As You Like It, Lettice and Lovage, Twelth Night (Shakespeare & Company); The Crucible and Much Ado About Nothing (Perseverance Theatre); The Two Gentleman of Verona (Alabama Shakespeare Festival); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis); Henry Five (Shakespeare on the Sound); The Taming of the Shrew (Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival); Betrayal (Portland Stage Company); The Lion in Winter (Northern Stage). Eleanor has held positions as Artistic Director for the Red Heel Theatre Company, Resident Assistant Director at the Shakespeare Theatre and Resident Director at New Dramatists. She has directed and taught students at the Yale School of Drama, NYU’s graduate program and The Juilliard School, among others. She holds an MFA from Yale School of Drama. | |
| Anya Klepikov (Scenic & Costume Designer) was born in the former USSR, and immigrated to Boston, MA at the age of eleven. Most recently she has designed costumes for Othello, sets and costumes for Flammentangel Kabarett, and costumes for Troy: After and Before at Princeton University. Her set and costume designs were selected for Opera America’s inaugural Director/Designer Showcase in 2008. Anya’s regional credits include costumes for A Woman of No Importance at the Yale Repertory Theatre, which won the Connecticut Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Costume Design. She has collaborated extensively with director Mike Donahue on Electronic City, Brand, God is a DJ, Bacchae, Tommy and Recess at the Yale Summer Cabaret; and with director Tea Alagic on Zero Hour (Yale School of Drama) and The Donny Hathaway Story (Yale Cabaret). Anya also designed costumes for the original production of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Marcus; or the Secret of Sweet at the Yale School of Drama; sets and costumes for Kids These Days and for the dance piece Traumland at the Yale Summer Cabaret. She is the recipient of the Donald and Zorka Oenslager Scholarship in Stage Design and the Leo Lerman Graduate Fellowship in Design, 2008. Anya holds a BA from the University of Chicago, an MFA from the Yale School of Drama, and is a classically trained pianist. | |
| Norman Coates (Lighting Designer) Triad Stage: Mrs. Warren’s Profession, The Caretaker, "Master Harold"…and the boys, A Moon for the Misbegotten. Broadway: The News and Prince of Central Park. Off Broadway: Here Are Ladies, Diversions and Delights, Blood Knot and Limbo Tales (Villager Award). Tours: The Who’s Tommy, Camelot with Richard Harris and Encounter 500. Regional: Great Lakes Theatre Festival, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, American Stage Festival, NC Shakespeare Festival, PlayMakers Repertory, Burt Reynolds' Jupiter Theatre, The Hirshfeld Theatre, North Carolina Theatre, Greensboro Opera, Opera Carolina, Piedmont Opera. He is the Director of Lighting at the UNC School of the Arts and a member of United Scenic Artists. | |
| Gèneva B. Conaway Bennison (Sound Designer) Triad Stage: Black Pearl Sings!, Bell, Book & Candle; Doubt. Regional/Local: Les Misérables, The Producers, All Shook Up, Jesus Christ Superstar (Maine State Music Theater); Beauty and the Beast, Smoke on the Mountain (The Little Theatre of Winston-Salem); Scapino!, The Devil and Kate, Burn This, Rabbit Hole (University of North Carolina School of the Arts). New York: Ballet Hispanico, Manhattan Theatre Club. Education: BA, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. Currently pursuing an MFA at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. | |
| Bill McCord (Projection Designer) is a professor of Cinematography at UNC School of the Arts, where he has also taught technical theater. He has over 25 years of film production experience on features, commercials, music videos, concerts, documentaries and industrials. He has worked with numerous Academy Award®-nominated cinematographers on features and commercials, including the 1991 Oscar® winner, JFK. Other credits include: O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Double Jeopardy, Crazy in Alabama, Primary Colors, Lolita, Dead Man Walking, Interview with the Vampire, The Pelican Brief, Miller’s Crossing, Wild at Heart, concert documentaries of U2 and The Police, as well as commercials for Levi’s, Coke, Burger King, Budweiser, Ford, Datsun, Chevy and IBM. He holds a BFA from UNC School of the Arts and a MA from the University of New Orleans. Member of IATSE since 1983. | |
| Drew Barker (Dramaturg) is Triad Stage’s Artistic Associate and Resident Dramaturg, and a former Theatre and Advanced Placement English teacher. Regional: Assistant to the Director for five shows with Preston Lane at Triad Stage. Education: UNC-Greensboro, BFA Theatre Education & English, and Undergraduate Research Assistantship in Greensboro Theatre History. | |
| Cindi Rush (Casting Director) New York: “Rooms”, The Time of Mendel’s Trouble, Peaceman, Jacques Brel, Six Dance Lessons In Six Weeks, The Thing About Men, Showtune, I Sing, Urinetown, Say Goodnight Gracie. Regional: Triad Stage, Act II Playhouse, Arena Stage, Goodman, Cape Cod Theatre Project, NOHO Arts Center (including “Pest Control”,“Dorian” and “Ghost and Mrs. Muir”), Actors Theatre of Louisville Humanafest. Film: Offspring, Made For Each Other, Home Movie,Jack Ketchum’s The Girl Next Door, Headspace, Funny Valentine, Master Class. Other: Hats (Denver, New Orleans, Chicago). Tours: “Kidz Bop”, “The Case of Curious George”. Casting Society of America Member, Casting Consultant for National Alliance For Musical Theatre, Casting Consultant for NYU Graduate Program for Musical Theatre Writing. | |
| Eric Tysinger* (Stage Manager) Triad Stage: Angel Street; Crumbs from the Table of Joy; Old Wicked Songs; North Star; Bloody Blackbeard; The Night of the Iguana; Bell, Book and Candle; Beautiful Star, Black Pearl Sings! and Ghosts. Off-Broadway: Elvis People. Regional: Dreamgirls, Annie Get Your Gun, Peter Pan (North Carolina Theatre); A Christmas Carol, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, As You Like It (North Carolina Shakespeare Festival); Elvis People, Great Expectations (both world premieres, Mill Mountain Theatre). |
*Member of Actors' Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States.
