7 Stories
by
Morris Panych
SYNOPSIS
Imagine sticking your head out of the window of your seventh storey apartment and seeing a man standing on the ledge, looking down at the pavement. What do you do? Call the police? The fire brigade? Try to talk to him? Find out why he’s there? The characters in Morris Panych’s 7 Stories have their own very individual ways of reacting, or not reacting to the unusual sight outside their windows. There are two lovers threatening to murder one another, a paranoid psychiatrist, an actor preparing for the role of his life on his wedding day, and a Christian lady who – in her own special way – answers the prayers of the tenants on the sixth floor. Only one of the eccentric neighbours, a 100-hundred-year-old lady has a proposal for the man on the ledge…
Panych’s dialogues are a light-hearted examination of the dark absurdity of human existence. While the man on the ledge walks the fine line between life and death, the rest of the residents struggle more or less consciously with what one of them calls the ‘fine line between fiction and reality’. The man on the ledge, it seems, has made an honest choice. How honest though are the protagonists of the seven urban stories being enacted inside the apartment block?
DIRECTOR
Angela David
CAST
Man
John Shoemaker
Charlotte and Nurse Wilson
Claudia Wicki
Rodney and Percy
Harold Woolley
Jennifer and Joan
Chenai Gondo
Leonard and Michael
Dimitri Aivaliotis
Marshall and Al
Dustin Rees
Rachel and Lillian
Michelle Holmes Albin
PRODUCTION PHOTOS
BEHIND THE SCENES
Production Coordinator
Tiina Palojärvi
Stage Managers
Trish Schmid, Sheila von Arx, Rachel Lundeen
Set Design
Firman Burke, Tim Purdue
Lighting Design
Andreas Stahl
Lighting Crew
Luke Walker, Kerstin Preuschoff, Iain Richardson, Corinne Schmucki, Martin Russell, Carolina Diaz Quijano, Jan Sinstadt
Sound
Terry Menard
Sound Crew
Deborah Somers, Susan DePaul, Karen Siber, Simone Leske
Prompters
Irene Lautenbach, Martin Chwierut
Props
Matt Albin
Props Crew
Noeleen Blaich, Lesley Hodder, Imma Ortega, Xavi Ferró, Nik Clayton, Cameron Roy, Kelli Shoemaker
Costumes
Bouqui Stautmeister, Valery Niggli, Valentina D'Alessandro
Make-up
Christine Eusebio, Maureen Grimm, Anouscha Schodjai, Sylvia Day, Bernadette Anderko, Slava Kästli
Front of House
Paul Bilton, Regula Bilton, Members of the Club
Box Office
Nicholas MacCabe, Members of the Club
Photography
Daniele Dagani, Firman Burke
Programme Design
Paul Bilton
Programme Editor
Marc Kempe
Publicity
Daniele Dagani
Publicity Assistance
Bouqui Stautmeister