Watson, a grieving widower, takes up lodgings once again with famous consulting detective Sherlock Holmes, a man the world believed to be dead. Holmes is approached with a case that involves a Hound from Hell. Could this Hell Hound be the key to the afterlife, and to Watson's lost love Mary? Watson will have to gamble his life, his soul, suffer waking nightmares, and communicate with dogs in order to learn the grisly truth behind the curse of the Baskervilles in this twisted retelling of Arthur Conan Doyle's classic thriller, The Hound of the Baskervilles.
HOUND will feature Cavan Hallman (Watson), Terrance MacSweeny (Holmes), Abigail Hawk* (Beryl/Mary), Elizabeth Stewart* (Dr. Mortimer), Blaine Peltier (Stapleton), Grant Boyd (Henry Baskerville), Jack Corcoran (Barrymoore), Meredith Dillard (Mrs. Hudson/Mrs. Barrymoore), Jason Stroud (Seldon the convict) and Alyssa Schroeter (The Hound).
HOUND will play as part of the world premier of the Planet Connections Theatre Festivity, June 9-28 at the Robert Moss Theatre inside 440 Studios (Astor Place and Lafayette), Wednesday, June 17 at 6 PM, Saturday, June 20 at 7 PM, Monday, June 22 at 6:30 PM, Tuesday, June 23 at 6:30 PM, Wednesday, June 24 at 6:30 PM
& Thursday, June 25 at 4:00 PM. Tickets ($18) are available online at www.planetconnectionsfestivity.com
Rachel Klein (Director, Choreographer) 's work was recently seen at La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival in May 2009. Recent directing works include Go-Go Killers! a retro-futuristic, campy 1960's girl gang deb play, All Kinds of Shifty Villains, a play that explored the merging of theatrical, slapstick, and Film Noir genres, La Enferma, an on going series of El Dia De Los Muertos inspired movement pieces, Something Weird... in the Red Room, a grindhouse style double feature of horror plays: Aenigma and Sir Sheever, Metro, an acrobat, dance, and clown show about inner thoughts while riding a subway, and The Canterville Ghost, a movement based play that she adapted from the Oscar Wilde short story. Rachel has had movement and dance pieces featured at several cabarets and nightlife events, including The World Famous Bob's "Give Thanks!" at Galapagos Art Space in DUMBO, Parallel Exit's "Move it!" at Manhattan Theater Source, and "Rated X--the Panty Party" at Don Hill's. Rachel is a 2007 alumni of the International Directors Symposium with La MaMa in Spoleto, Italy and is an Associate Member of the SSDC. www.RachelKleinProductions.com
"Rachel Klein brings a heap of experience -- in ballet, clowning and acrobatics -- to the plays she works on. Her direction of the recent All Kinds of Shifty Villains showed an original mix of grace and slapstick that stretched the comedy and made for some clever theatrical surprises." -Tom Murrin, Paper Magazine
"Directed and choreographed by Rachel Klein, both of the evening's pieces are dominated by their movement, and executed with accomplished nuance " -Dana Lang, Off Off Online (Something Weird...In the Red Room)
""It is to (Rachel) Klein's credit that each piece retains a distinct aesthetic, from color palette to sound design to campy dances."-Megin Jimenez, nytheatre.com (Something Weird...In the Red Room)
John Patrick Bray (Playwright) is a PhD Student in the Department of Theatre at Louisiana State University, having earned his MFA in Playwriting from The Actors Studio Drama School at New School University. His full-length plays include the critically acclaimed Trickster at the Gate (At Hand Theatre Company), As We Speak (re:Directions Theatre Company), Down Low (co-written with Keith Dorwick under a Grant from the Acadiana Arts Council), and Liner Notes. His one-acts have been produced at the Samuel French Festival, the Strawberry One-Act Festival, and the Rising Sun Performance Company's Aspire to Inspire series. Two of his plays are published in The Best Plays from the Strawberry One-Act Festival. John is an Associate Member of The Dramatists Guild of America, Inc, and an Equity Membership Candidate. He lives in the Deep South with his wife and son.
Planet Connections Theatre Festivity is committed to producing high-quality theatre, with non-traditional casting, unique perspectives, political theatre and more! All of the productions are curated and created with the hope of inspiring cultural education and human understanding.
