Drowning Ophelia
by Rachel Strayer
directed by Sasha Bratt
Featuring Victoria Rae Sook*, Erik Endsley, Levi Morger, and Annie R. Such
Ensemble Atria, collaborating with EagerRisk Theater Company, will be presenting "Drowning Ophelia" this 2016. A staged reading will be presented on April 25th, 2016 at 8pm.
Jane doesn’t know what to do with the literary character who has taken up residence in her bathtub. She doesn’t want Ophelia interrupting the obsessive order of her life with obnoxious songs about death and valentines. She doesn’t want Ophelia disrupting her relationship with Edmund, the oddly charming actor who might show up for dinner in a suit…of armor. And she most definitely doesn’t want Ophelia stirring up memories of a brother she would rather forget. But Ophelia doesn’t care about what Jane wants so much as what she needs. As Jane’s past intrudes dangerously on her present, it becomes clear that Ophelia is not simply a character from Hamlet, but a long-forgotten messenger with a question from Jane’s own troubled mind: How do you move on when reconciliation is not an option?
*Member of Actors' Equity Association
Artistic Directors Victoria Rae Sook and Annie R. Such plan to take Drowning Ophelia to the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, and with your help, take it off Broadway, and around the nation.