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LINDA: "I hope...you're here to help me. Aren't you? You said you wanted to help people."

Gordon Hendrickson as Hush and Shawnmarie Yates-Stanton as Linda in ReAct's staged reading of Stranger.
Photo: David Hsieh.


The Cast

(in order of appearance)

Hush
Gordon Hendrickson
Linda
Shawnmarie Yates-Stanton
Stewardess/Narrator
Kathy Hsieh
Steward/Pato
ShawnJ West
Mother/Diane
Danielle Reierson
Frank/Voice of the Captain
Eric Newman*

* Member Actors Equity Association


LINDA: "I'm going to tell you something very intimate. Because you're a total stranger and I'll never see you again...alright?"

Kathy Hsieh as the Stewardess, Shawnmarie Yates-Stanton as Linda and Gordon Hendrickson as Hush in ReAct's staged reading of Stranger.
Photo: David Hsieh.


Directed by
David Hsieh


The Crew

House Technician & Manager
David Hsieh
Venue Support
Jim Brimble


FRANK: "You want to know a secret? I'm gonna be a millionaire. I am."

Eric Newman as Frank and Shawnmarie Yates-Stanton as Linda in ReAct's staged reading of Stranger.
Photo: David Hsieh.


 
"STRANGER" GRAPHIC

Stranger


By Craig Lucas

Staged Reading

March 30, 2003
The Elliott Bay Book Company



The Program

The Setting

The action takes place on a flight from Philadelphia to Seattle and in a remote cabin in the Pacific Northwest. Other scenes, remembered, are also seen--an apartment in Portland, Oregon, a cabin in Coburn, Pennsylvania, a jail cell in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.


LINDA: "...you will I hope learn at last that there are in fact people out there who know what they want and mean to get it and do, all the time, at other people's expense..."
Shawnmarie Yates-Stanton
threatens Eric Newman in
a scene during ReAct's
staged reading of Stranger.
Photo: David Hsieh.

 

DIANE: "You have a really intense energy, you know that?"
Danielle Reierson as Diane and
Gordon Hendrickson as Hush in a
scene from ReAct's staged
reading of Stranger.
Photo: David Hsieh.


Stranger

received its world premiere at the Vineyard Theatre, New York City, September 2000.

Production Notes


ReAct's staged reading of Stranger was produced by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC.


PATO: "The lord doesn't give you anything you can't handle. He doesn't."
Gordon Hendrickson as Hush and
ShawnJ West as Pato in ReAct's
staged reading of Stranger.
Photo: David Hsieh.

 

LINDA: "You loved me. You loved me, say it..."
Gordon Hendrickson and Shawnmarie
Yates-Stanton in the final scene
of ReAct's staged reading of
Stranger.
Photo: David Hsieh.


Special Thanks To...

The Cast & Crew for production support
The Elliott Bay Book Company for venue hosting, loaned set pieces and props
The Elliott Bay Cafe for loaned props
George Paul Glanzman for production support
Karen Maeda-Allman for organizational support
Rain City Projects for publicity support
Rick Simonson for organizational support

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