Eric La Rue

World Premiere

Set in an anonymous suburban enclave, Eric LaRue concerns the struggle of Janice, a middle-aged mother coming to terms with a high-school shooting spree perpetrated by her son. Walking an unsettling line between satirical social critique and a meditation on the inescapable loneliness of the human soul, Eric LaRue is a powerful fable with its finger tracing the surface of the America’s mobius-strip morality.
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WRITTEN BY
Ensemble Member Brett Neveu

DIRECTED BY
Ann Filmer

PERFORMANCE RUN
November 10 – December 23, 2002

SEASON
Season 10

World Premiere!

Set in an anonymous suburban enclave, Eric LaRue concerns the struggle of Janice, a middle-aged mother coming to terms with a high-school shooting spree perpetrated by her son. Within the sterile confines of her community and her home, she finds no one to turn to for solace and understanding, except a young pastor at a church that her husband won’t even attend. Eager to grapple with such a grave crisis, and to offer some kind of healing to his spiritual community the pastor utilizes every method at his disposal, however awkward or untried it may be, to push Janice through the process of dealing with what her son has done and the guilt and fear that accompany her questions of complicity in his actions. When the pastor finally summons the mothers of the victims to a meeting with Janice, she realizes that apologies and kind words are not enough to defuse the buried tensions or ease the suffering of any party concerned. She sets off to find answers from the only person who may really have them.

CAST
Janice LaRue | Kate Buddeke
Steve Calhan | Will Clinger
Ron LaRue | Ensemble Member Doug Vickers
Jill Yardly | Jennifer Engstrom
Stephanie Grazer | Claudia Garrison
Eric LaRue | Jarrett Sleeper

CREATIVE TEAM
Set Design | Heather Graff and Richard Peterson
Costume Design | Jana Stauffer
Lighting Design | Andrew Meyers
Sound Design/ Original Music | Ensemble Member Joseph Fosco
Fight Director | Kevin Heckman
Stage Manager | Ensemble Member Tiffany Wilson