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Director • Translator • Playwright
Rob Melrose
Photos by Sarah Roland
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Max Grossman
Abrams Artists Agency
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"This is theatrical magic of a high order, and provides no end of delight…a tour de force of physical acting that leaves the audience breathless with laughter…Artistic director Rob Melrose’s new translation is a revelation of clarity…Annie Elias’ expert direction engages fully for the entire 90 minutes, and in no doubt whatsoever that we are watching a masterpiece."
–Charles Kruger
Theater Storm
THE CHAIRS
by Eugène Ionesco
in a new translation by Rob Melrose
The Cutting Ball Theater
Rob Melrose, Artistic Director
March 1 - 31, 2013
Directed by Rob Melrose
Set Design by Michael Locher
Costume Design by Sarah Roland
Lighting Design by Heather Basarab
Original Music / Sound Design by Theodore J. H. Husker
Assistant Directed by Rem Myers
Production Stage Management by Jocelyn A. Thompson
Cast
| Old Man | David Sinaiko |
| Old Woman | Tamar Cohn |
| The Orator | Derek Fischer |
"Cutting Ball Theater’s current staging of mid-20th-century French playwright Eugene Ionesco’s The Chairs is probably one of the best theater of the absurd productions to be seen locally — ever...The almost-entirely-two-character tragic farce, or farcical tragedy, is blessed with numerous advantages: A new translation by artistic director Rob Melrose, who turned some of Ionesco’s nonsensical French wordplay into equally nonsensical English-language wordplay."
–Jean Schiffman
The San Francisco Examiner
THE CHAIRS
by Eugène Ionesco
in a new translation by Rob Melrose
directed by Annie Elias
The Cutting Ball Theater
Rob Melrose © 2013