Adapted and Directed by Tlaloc Rivas
Based on The Doctor’s Dilemma by George Bernard Shaw
The Nafe Katter Theatre
March 21-30, 2024
A doctor who has discovered a lifesaving cure must make an impossible decision. With only one lifesaving dose remaining and two people in need, whom should he save? A scalpel-sharp satirical examination of the medical establishment, love and the value of art.
Tlaloc Rivas
director (he/el)
Tlaloc Rivas is a playwright, director, and educator based in Central Connecticut (unyielded lands of the Mohegan, Nipmuc, and Pequot nations).
He is currently Lecturer in Acting at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, Associate Professor in Residence in Theatre Studies at the University of Connecticut, and on the faculty at the National Theatre Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center.
Tlaloc was the inaugural Presidential Postdoctoral Presidential Fellow for Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Drama and currently serves on the boards for The New Harmony Project and the Latiné New Musical Theatre Lab.
Tlaloc is a member of Stage Directors and Choreographers, the Dramatists Guild, and co-founder of the Latinx Theatre Commons. He is the recipient of the Sir John Gielgud Fellowship in Classical Directing, the NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Directors, and a Usual Suspect for New York Theater Workshop.
Design & Production Team:
Zach Farmer – Scenic Design
Hannah Corbett – Lighting Design
Adrianne Williams – Costume Design
Jake Neighbors – Sound Design
Alison Savino – Production Stage Manager
Ryan Hagin – Stage Manager
The Cast:
Redpenny – Mark Sadowski
Emmy – Lily O’Neil
Ridgeon – Carlos Fruzzetti
Lady Patricia – Morgan Hrymack
Cutler Walpole – Siommara Guadalupe-Hill
B.B. – Donte Warren
Blenkinsop – Weimy Montero Candelario
Jennifer – Kaitlyn Oliva
Louis – Ian Rothauser
Minnie and Mrs. Danbury, a secretary– Czarissa Moreno
Raymond, a journalist – Garrett LaBranche
Show Photography:
©Mattais Lundblad
Review:
Christopher Arnott | Hartford Currant