RICHARD III by William Shakespeare, Directed by Kirsten Brandt, Sledgehammer Theatre
Scenic Design by Anthony Gutowski, Costume Design by Mary Larson. Lighting Design by David Lee Cuthbert, Sound Design by Paul Peterson., Video Design by Aaron MacFarland. Dramatugy by Elizabeth O’Hara Yager. Stage Manger Mary Burt Godwin
Cast: Lou Seitchik as Richard, Pricilla Allen, Todd Blakesley, Ken Bryant, Janet Hayatshahi, Julie Jacobs, Laua Lee Juliano, Gerard Maxwell, Walter Murray, Mark Petrich, Michael Severance, Kanani Titchen, Anton Swain-Gil, Jessa Watson, Amber Wolfe, Ruff Yeager (on video: Lisel Gorel, Tim West, Mary Burt Godwin, Mark Stephan)
PRESS:
San Diego Playbill Award “Outstanding Ensmeble”
…a deliciously disturbing world. In that world (conceived for this production by artistic director Kirsten Brandt), Richard wears a suit and carries a cane, subjects his victims to televised executions, and is shadowed by pop bad-guy icons who insist on videotaping their atrocities. …Richard III is a play worthy of its author and its modern audience. It oozes with modern sensationalism——there’s ample gunplay, combat fatigues replace armor, and six active televisions remind us of the role of spectacle in contemporary politics. It’s theater at its finest, making the play not merely accessible but also timely; we become spectators of spectators who root for news of death and destruction rather than no news at all. -OC Weekly