Theater 162: Brother Emmanuel’s Excellent Idea
Summary
This comedic piece is set in a monastery sometime around the year 1455. We find Brother Emmanuel sharing his need for a respite from the tedium and unrelenting monotony of copying sacred scripts by hand, work not fit for God or man. Which his colleague, Brother Xavier, argues the need for historical documents for the future, and charges him with blasphemy for Brother Emmanuel to consider such an idea.
Writer
Rich Rubin
Based in Portland, Oregon, he is a member of the Dramatists Guild and is the recipient of six playwriting awards. His full-length plays include Caesar’s Blood, Costa Rehab, Cottonwood in the Flood, Marilyn/MISFITS/Miller, One Weekend in October, September Twelfth, and many more.
Rich Rubin
Director
Bernadette Armstrong
Bernadette moved to Los Angeles to work in film in the late 1990s and after her first two films went to festivals she took a short hiatus from writing until she fell in love with small theater. Since 2008 she has had several successful theater projects produced in No Hollywood. Her play The Reading Group was named Pick of the Week by LA Weekly Magazine and in 2017 her play Simple Lives was nominated for Outstanding Writing of an Original Play or Musical by the Valley Theater Awards (the only woman nominated.) Bernadette is also the producer and founder of Open Door Playhouse Podcast!
Bernadette Armstrong
Daamen Krall as Brother Emanuel
Daamen has worked as a professional actor/voice-over artist in films and television for the past 38 years. Some of the recent film credits include THE POST, CARS III, AMERICAN PASTORAL, UNBROKEN 2, and, for television, SLEEPY HOLLOW and MADMEN. One of his favorite projects was starring in the title role of the award-winning remake of THE CABINET OF DOCTOR CALIGARI. He also produced the award-winning short film HIDE. Under the banner of MIDNIGHT SCREAM PRODUCTIONS with partner Robert Shelby, he is currently in post-production for the web series THE LISTENER. Daamen is also the host and sometimes cast member of the return of radio’s theatre of thrills, SUSPENSE, which is ha gained fans around the world and was nominated twice for a Peabody Award.
Daamen Krall
Kevin Carr as Brother Xavier
Kevin Carr (Quantum Richard III) has been acting in Shakespeare plays since the age of ten, and he has performed it professionally on both coasts and in London. His favorite roles thus far include Hamlet, Petruchio, Iago, Jacques, Shylock, Benedick, and of course, Richard III.
As Kevspeare, he has lent new form to many of ol' Will's works, such as Hamlet Improvised, MacSlick, Twelfth Night Andronicoos, A meeting of Wills, His Stories, and Too Many Hamlets, among others. He is currently at work on the Shakespearean version of a certain Beckett play about waiting.
Kevin Carr
