Collected Stories
Written By: Donald Margulies
Directed by: Richard Furlong
Produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service
Run of Show
“Collected Stories” will run November 2-17, 2012, Thursday through Saturday at 8:00pm
Synopsis
Ruth Steiner is a teacher and respected short story writer. Her student and protégée is Lisa Morrison. Over the course of 6 years, Lisa journeys from insecure student to successful writer. After publishing a well-received collection of short stories, Lisa writes a novel based on Ruth’s affair with the poet Delmore Schwartz. The women deal with the moral dilemma of whether a person’s life events are suitable for another to use in their own creative process.
Program
The Program for this show can be viewed by clicking Collected Stories. (Requires Adobe Reader)
The People …
Leading Roles
in order of appearance
| Ruth Steiner | Maryjo Gavin |
| Lisa Morrison | Laura Crawford |
Program Staff
| Director | Richard Furlong |
| Producers | Patrick Drummond & Sara Speelman |
| Stage Manager | Zac Gilley |
| Lighting Design | Andrew C. Todd |
| Lighting Crew | Allen Wilkinson |
| Sound Design | Derek Hansen |
| Sound Crew | Marc Malley |
| Props Gatherer | Brad Riker |
| Stage Crew | Rich Chesko, Mary Cole, Tanner Duvall, & James Harris |
| Set Design | James MacFarlane |
| Set Construction | Laura Crawford, Patrick Drummond, RB Furlong, Zac Gilley, Jake Gordy, Allie Hinz, & James MacFarlane |
| Set Dressing | Brad Riker |
| Painters & Dutchers | Patrick Drummond, Richard Furlong, Zac Gilley, Jake Gordy, & Tiffany Noel Taylor |
| Program | Jake Gordy |
| Program Art & Cover Design | Laura Hansen |
| Production Logo | Christopher Jagodzinski |
| House Manager | Ann Veasey |
| Box Office | Ann Veasey |
| Box Office Staff | Sandy Blanchard, Kimberley Bruggemann, Pam Engle, Darlene Hatfield, Patty Hoover, Denise McHugh, Dianne Nowakowski, Susan Rice, & Judy Wiederhold |
| Publicity | Christopher Jagodzinski |
| Program Printing | The Copy Center |
| Marquee Signs | Jake Gordy & Christopher Jagodzinski |
| Theatre Photographer | Frank Venda |
| Special Thanks | Toledo Repertoire Theatre |
The Show!
Place: Ruth’s apartment in Greenwich Village
Time: 1990 – 1996
Act I
Scene 1: September, 1990.
Scene 2: May, 1991. Eight months later.
Scene 3: August, 1992. About a year later.
Act II
Scene 1: December, 1994, Nearly two and a half years later.
Scene 2: October, 1996. Almost two years later.
Scene 3: Later that night.