Description
WRITTEN BY
Henrik Ibsen
ADAPTED BY
Ensemble Members Steve Haggard & Shade Murray
DIRECTED BY
Ensemble Member Shade Murray
FEATURING
Ensemble Members Sherman Edwards, Steve Haggard, Travis A. Knight, and Natalie West
PERFORMANCE RUN
May 6 – June 13, 2027
A reimagining of Ibsen’s masterpiece in which hard truths, wild rumors and the supernatural slowly become indistinguishable from one another.
Former pastor John Rosmer is wrestling with the cryptic circumstances of his wife’s death, a fractured political climate fueled by toxic rumors churned by a tabloid press, and his own reckoning with God. By his side is the idealistic, young graduate student Rebecca West, who shall prove to be either his salvation or his mortal undoing…And we haven’t even gotten to all the ghosts.
About the Artists:
Steve Haggard (he/him) is an actor and writer based in New York City. He’s performed at A Red Orchid in: 33 TO NOTHING, 3C, THE ALIENS, ACCIDENTALLY LIKE A MARTYR, SENDER and THE MUTILATED. He recently ended a three year run on Broadway as Harry Potter in HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD.
His Chicago acting credits include many shows at Writers’ Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare, Timeline, Northlight, Rivendell, Steppenwolf and American Players Theatre. He is a graduate of DePaul University and a proud member of the A Red Orchid ensemble.
Shade Murray’s first directing project at A Red Orchid was Kimberly Akimbo followed by Abigail’s Party, Butcher of Baraboo, Aliens, Mud Blue Sky, Accidentally Like a Martyr, Pilgrim’s Progress, Sender, 3C, Evening at the Talk House, Small Mouth Sounds, and Grey House. He is currently a psychotherapist at Thrive Psychology in St Joseph, MI.
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