Butterfly

Takoma Park Theater, MD, February 2013
Kennedy Center, DC (Page-to-Stage Festival), September 2012
Wanderlust Theater Company

Butterfly explores the final day of a self-appointed prophet, Todd (half-Black and half-Jewish), a once promising professional baseball player who answered a call to prophecy fifteen years before.  The  play takes place in the suburban Washington D.C. living room of the house he grew up in, with his single acolyte Jan (a Serbian refugee); a therapist; a medieval Muslim mystic (Ibn Sina) he has called back from the dead; the bubbly Martini, a beautician; his mother and his doppelganger, his invisible father who is interred in a mental asylum in Poughkeepsie, NY – all of whom help bring his quest for prophecy to resolution.  Butterfly received its first reading at the Kennedy Center (Washington DC) in September 2012.  This will be its world premier production.

Cast

Michael Mack (Todd)

Stephen Backus (Jan)

Ken Jackson (Jules)

Karim Chaibi (Abd Allah ibn Sina or “Abs”)

Anika Harden (Martini)

Josh Canary (Therapist)

Gigi Buscaglio (Gertrude)

Cody Jones (Samuel the Postman)

Desiree Miller (Cello and Musical Director)

Crew

Roselie Vasquez-Yetter (Director)

Samuel Basa (Assistant Director/Stage Manager)

Kiva Fecteau (Producer)

Erica Shadowsong (Costume Designer)

Morgaine Lowe (House Manager)

Reviews

“If you’d like to explore where theater will be ten years from now it is probably worth a look.” Tim Treanor, DC Theatre Scene

“Butterfly provides an interesting look into madness, truth, religion, and death joined by good acting and direction, and an amazing musical score, which makes for a good night out at the theatre.” Jessica Dall, DC Metro Theatre Arts