Machinalia

By Steph Del Rosso
Adapted from Machinal by Sophie Treadwell

August 3 - 11, 2017

Be a good daughter.
Find a good husband.
Take care of him when he comes home from a hard day at work.
Be a good wife, a good mother, a good housekeeper.
Be obedient.
Be generous.
Be clean in public and dirty in bed.
Definitely do not be yourself.

In 1928, Ruth Snyder was executed for the murder of her husband. That same year, Sophie Treadwell wrote a play inspired by Snyder’s story. Now, Steph Del Rosso has crafted a relentless, raucous exploration of feminism - part rock concert, part performance art -- inspired by Treadwell’s expressionist masterpiece.

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:
Thursday, August 3 at 8 pm
Friday, August 4 at 8 pm
Saturday, August 5 at 8 pm
Wednesday, August 9 at 8 pm
Thursday, August 10 at 8 pm
Friday, August 11 at 8 pm

CAST:
​Mary Glen Fredrick (Young Woman)
Enrico Nassi (Man)

CREATIVE TEAM:
Director: Will Detlefsen
Scenic design: Anna Robinson
Lighting design: Brandon H Rosen
Costume Design: Annie Le
Sound design: Steven Leffue
Dramaturg: Kristen Tregar

Steph Del Rosso (Playwright) has had her work developed or presented with Soho Rep, Clubbed Thumb, New York Stage and Film, The Flea, Colt Coeur, Judson Memorial Church, Theater Masters, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Caldera Arts, the Disquiet International Literary Program in Lisbon, Portugal, and others. She is an alum of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab and Clubbed Thumb’s Early Career Writers’ Group, a two-time semi-finalist for both the National Playwrights’ Conference and Clubbed Thumb’s Biennial Commission, and a New Georges Affiliated Artist. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Playwriting at UC-San Diego, where she studies with Naomi Iizuka.

Will Detlefsen (Director) most recently directed the world premiere of Will Snider’s Strange Men at UC San Diego’s Wagner New Play Festival. Select credits at UCSD include Tennessee Williams’ Vieux Carré , Eugene Ionesco's Rhinoceros, Emily Feldman’s Go. Please. Go., and Will Snider’s Death of a Driver. Machinalia was previously presented at Calit2’s IDEAS Festival and at the Ubuntu Theater Project in Oakland, CA. His New York credits include the world premieres of T. Adamson’s House & Variations and Toni Schlesinger’s The Mystery of Pearl Street, both at Dixon Place, and the revivals of Sarah Kane’s Blasted and Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party. Detlefsen’s assisting credits include Alex Timbers, Rachel Chavkin, Gabor Tompa, Terry Kinney, and Young Jean Lee. BFA: New York University; Directing MFA: UC San Diego. / willdetlefsen.com

Photo by Alex Matthews