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On adjacent patios in a honeymoon hotel, Elyot and Amanda meet by chance after marrying their new spouses. The still smoldering embers of their tempestuous marriage spark flames as banter flies and hilarity ensues. New partners are abandoned, couples re-unite and tempers spiral out of control. Noel Coward’s sophisticated romance shocked audiences in 1930 but this classic battle of the sexes remains a favorite comedy of bad manners. Known as one of the most flippant plays ever written, Noel Coward’s droll and scathing wit is sure to amuse. |
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| Private Lives |
| by Noel Coward |
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| January 28 - February 20, 2010 |
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SUNDAY
$26 |
MONDAY
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TUESDAY |
WEDNESDAY
$24 |
THURSDAY
$30 |
FRIDAY
$30 |
SATURDAY
$30 |
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Jan. 28
8:00pm
Preview |
29
8:00pm
Opening |
30
8:00pm |
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Feb. 4
8:00pm |
5
8:00pm
SRO |
6
8:00pm
Discussion |
7
3:00pm |
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10
7:30pm |
11
8:00pm |
12
8:00pm |
13
8:00pm |
14
3:00pm |
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17
7:30pm |
18
8:00pm |
19
8:00pm |
20
8:00pm |
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Preview - Tickets for preview night are only $24.00.
Opening - Opening night tickets ($32.00) include an invitation to sip champagne with the actors and staff after the show.
Discussion - Discussion night includes a question and answer session with the actors and staff after the show.
SRO - Sold out performance (Standing Room Only). |
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Beth Boulay (Louise) is excited to be making her debut at Bus Barn Stage Company. Having recently graduated from the Foothill Theater Conservatory (a two-year comprehensive theatrical training program), she was in several plays there and with the Foothill Theater Department, including My Sister, Eileen (Helen), Dr. Faustus (Wagner), and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Lucy). Also, during the last school year, Beth made up half of the student leadership of the Foothill Players where she wrote and directed scenes as well as acted in them. She is currently interning at City Lights Theater Company in San Jose. Enjoy the show, and bon appétit! |
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Diahanna Davidson (Amanda) has a BFA from Millikin University. In Chicago theatre and regionally, some of Diahanna’s favorite roles are: Sister Robert Ann (Nunsense!), The Wicked Witch of the West (The Wizard of Oz), Donna (The Dreamer Examines His Pillow), Shitty Meg/Capt. Campbell (Our Country’s Good) and the Nurse (Romeo and Juliet). Since moving to the Bay Area in ’04, Diahanna has performed with Northside Theatre Company (Mrs. Cratchit, A Christmas Carol), Busbarn Stage Company (Mrs. Bob Cratchit, Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge) Dragon Productions (Alexa Vere de Vere, As Bees in Honey Drown) City Lights Theatre Company (Lysistrata, Lysistrata) and the Jewel Theatre (Kate, Sylvia) in Santa Cruz. Diahanna has also enjoyed working at the San Jose Stage Company where she has played Mrs. Krebs in Inherit the Wind, Josephine Strong in Urinetown! The Musical, Mrs. Hale in The White House Murder Case and the Mother in The Pillowman. When not in a play, Diahanna continues to rock out with her husband, Tom, in an acoustic pop/rock version of their band, Simple Frustration. Diahanna wishes to thank her family for making the trip out to see her in the role of Amanda. Diahanna dedicates this performance to her husband Tom and their dog, Raiko. |
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Tom Gough (Elyot) A native of the Loyola Corners neighborhood of Los Altos, Tom most recently appeared for the Bus Barn in The Real Thing. Other Bus Barn acting credits include Expecting Isabel, On the Verge, The Baby Dance, The Rivals, The Good Doctor, and A Man for All Seasons. BBSC directing credits include The Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, Heathen Valley and How the Other Half Loves. Tom’s more recent acting credits include Water & Power for Teatro Vision, Greater Tuna for Dragon Productions, Nickel & Dimed for The Western Stage and Noises Off for City Lights (where he served as Artistic Director from 2001-04). Tom also is a founding and acting member of ComedySportz-San Jose. A graduate of Santa Clara University and UC-Davis, Tom is currently the chair of the Theatre Arts Department at Foothill College where his recent directing credits include The Adding Machine and Doctor Faustus. Thanks for choosing to support live theatre tonight/today. |
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John Romano (Victor) has gone “MENTAL” over the opportunity to tackle this classic, intimate comedy alongside a diversely talented and credited cast. Over the past holiday season you may have witnessed Mr. Romano’s singing portrayal of Mrs. Badden Rotten whilst in “drag” in the Pleasanton Civic Arts/San Francisco Shakespeare Festival’s version of Cinderella. John’s variety of roles range from the sweating and swash-buckling characters of dead prosecuting attorney Yusef El-Fayoumy in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, and Porthos in The Three Musketeers at City Lights Theatre Company, to the deranged, Dr. Berman in The Woman Who Fell From The Sky at Teatro Vision or the earnest Jack Worthing and selfish Mellersh Wilton in The Importance of Being Earnest and Enchanted April at the Bus Barn Stage Company. He has also brought to life the character of Austin in True West, surrealist artist Salvador Dali in Pear Slices 08', and Carl in The Baltimore Waltz at The Pear Avenue Theatre. John earned the title of "Barnie" through an equity apprenticeship at The Barn Theatre in Michigan, where he performed in Equus alongside singer/comedian Stephen Lynch of Broadway’s The Wedding Singer and Tom Wopat of the popular 80's television series, The Dukes Of Hazzard. John holds a M. A. in Theatre Arts from San Jose State University. When not onstage, Romano, also a recent survivor of Hodgkins Lymphoma, John works as a News Video Editor for NBC Bay Area. He was made in Japan, born in Hollywood, and raised in Korea, Norway, and Sweden before becoming a Bay Area resident in 1985. John is a proud member of Theatre Bay Area and The Theatre Communications Group. |
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Halsey Varady (Sibyl) Growing up in Los Altos, Halsey saw her first Bus Barn production back in 1992 and credits it with giving her the acting bug. She has acted extensively in the Bay Area and on the East Coast; most recently she played Wren in the San Francisco premiere of Lee Blessing’s A Body of Water with Spare Stage and Pickles in The Great American Trailer Park Musical with San Jose Stage. In Washington DC she played Belle in Ford’s Theatre’s production of A Christmas Carol and May in Fool for Love with Spooky Action Theater. She sang Brenda Lee, Petula Clark and Janis Joplin in Beehive, the 1960’s Musical with San Jose Stage, Squeaky Fromme in Assassins at City Lights Theatre Company, the title role in Gypsy with the Saratoga Drama Group and Lucy T. Slut in the first workshop of Avenue Q. She also appeared as Girleen in The Lonesome West with San Jose Stage, Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew with The Shady Shakespeare Theatre Company, Madge in Picnic with the Palo Alto Players and Helen of Troy in The Trojan Women at Foothill College. At Yale she sang and traveled the world with the a cappella singing groups “Redhot and Blue” and “Whim ‘n Rhythm”. She is represented by Tonry Talent. |
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Ron Gasparinetti (Set Designer) was born and raised in Newark, NJ. He attended Essex Catholic High School and Montclair State University where he earned his BFA degree in technical theatre with a scenic design concentration. Ron worked the night shift for the Newark, NJ police department while attending college. He graduated in 1986. Ron has worked steadily since then as a technical director, scenic designer, lighting designer, props designer and production manager-sometimes all at once! He even forayed into the field of acting for a short time. Ron has been involved with over 400 productions in the last 30 years. He currently resides in California on the San Francisco Peninsula. In February of 2007, Ron joined forces with Charles McKeithan to form a new company: THRUST Scenic Design & Construction. To date, the company has built a clientele of 12 theatre companies in the Bay Area and has designed and built over 75 productions.
Emily Greene (Costume Designer) lives in Oakland and travels all over the Bay Area as a freelance set and costume designer. Originally from Birmingham, Alabama, Emily received a Masters of Fine Arts in Set and Costume Design from Ohio University. This is the third Bus Barn production Emily has designed cosutmes for, having previously designed The Importance of Being Ernest and Season's Greetings. In the two years she has lived here, Emily has designed over 20 Bay Area productions working with many theatres including The California Shakespeare Theatre, The Palo Alto Children's Theatre, Cutting Ball, and Crowded Fire. She will also be seigning costumes for Bus Barn's production of Little Shop of Horrors later this season.
Ben Hemmen (Stage Manager) After 16 shows at Bus Barn telling the Stage Manager to press the Go Button, this time Ben gets to be told when to press the Go Button. This is actually not so unusual, having last been told what to do for the Lamplighter's production of Iolanthe a year ago. Several people have commented about his transition to the dark side of Management, but the voices inside and outside his head convince him he is not managing anything, except in title. Question and comments can be directed to ben@hemmen.com.
Charles McKeithan (Master Carpenter) has been a handyman by day and an actor by night in the local Bay Area for the past ten years. Last year he joined forces with Ron Gasparinetti to form THRUST Scenic Design and Construction. He now has the pleasure of earning a living working in theater full time to help bring Ron's creative visions to life. For more on Charles visit www.charlesmck.com.
Rich Miller (Sound Design) is very pleased to return after bringing you the sound for TREASURE ISLAND. Previous sound designs at Bus Barn have included BUS STOP and ENCHANTED APRIL. Sound designs at other theaters include THE CEMETARY CLUB at Northside Theatre Company and NOISES OFF with Palo Alto Players. Rich has also been seen onstage as Baptista in THE TAMING OF THE SHREW (Shady Shakespeare), Ezra Chater in ARCADIA (Pear Avenue Theater), and most recently as Tom in SIX YEARS at Dragon Productions. By day Rich is a web application developer and voice actor.
Linda Piccone (Director) is happy to be back at Bus Barn to driect for Barbara. Her last show here was Mrs. Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas Binge. She directed Romance in D which won the Silicon Valley Small Venue Theatre Awards in 2005. She also directed Pierre and Marie, This Day and Age, Other Peoples Money, The Baby Dance, and Lips Together Teeth Apart. She has directed around the Bay Area at California Conservatory Theatre, Palo Alto Players, L'ACT and Hillbarn in Foster City where in 2009 the play Little Foxes won the Silicon Valley Small Venue Theatre classical production category.
Paul Skelton (Lighting Design) is a native of Northern California, a graduate of UC Santa Cruz (go slugs). He has been working in the Bay Area for almost 20 years. Some of the companies he has worked with include Western Stage, Salinas; El Teatro Campesino, San Juan Bautista; Shakespeare San Francisco; Golden Bow, Carmel; and Teatro Vision, San Jose. He is currently the production manager for Gavilan College in Gilroy. He lives in San Juan Bautista with his beautiful wife Ana and son Ian. When not in the theater he can be found biking or hiking in the hills and valleys of the Santa Cruz Mountains.
Ruth E. Stein (Properties Designer) Ruth E. made her Bus Barn debut as Boo Levy in The Last Night of Ballyhoo. This award-winning actor/singer has worked extensively in the Bay Area for the past 35 years both onstage and off, in radio voiceovers, as a back-up recording vocalist, and in several industrial films. Following her passion of antiques, theatre and the “thrill-of-the-hunt,” she started “propEARLYdone,” providing the props design for Breaking Up is Hard to Do and SEASON'S GREETINGS. |
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