Toulouse-inations
Thu, August 7 - 8pm
The play takes place on two separate sets: one is a nightclub
In addition to the fascinating women in his life, a number of other
Toulouse-Lautrec.............. Sidney Hymson
Director...................... Jeffrey Scott Holland
Special thanks to: Sherry Deatrick, Strother Gaines, the Theatre Alliance of Louisville,
the folks at 6th & Oak, Noelle Shotwell, the amazing Ten, Eliza Beth Hedgspeth (creator of
the Fortune Teller's hand-knitted shawl), Scooter Davidson at the Mellwood Art Center,
and the Fun Food Cafe!
Martin Experimental Theatre (Mex) at The Kentucky Center
for the Performing Arts, Louisville, KY. Tickets are $15 at the Kentucky
Center Box Office.
Fri, August 8 - 8pm
Sat, August 9 - 8pm
Sun, August 10 - 2pm
Toulouse-inations is about the declining fin de siecle days of
Parisian nightlife in the 1880s and 1890s, as seen through the
green absinthe-drenched visions of painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
(played by Sidney Hymson).
where T-L spends much of his days propping up the bar, and the
other is an adjacent brothel where he spends his nights consorting
with prostitutes - but as a friend and lover, not a client. One
of his polyamorous love interests is Eugenie, a blonde ingenue who
aspires to becoming a playwright, and whose fanciful imagination
can be even stranger than T-L's bouts with absinthe hallucinations.
peculiar characters weave their way through the woof and the warp
of T-L's struggling art career. That career is imperiled continously
by his bohemian lifestyle and alcoholism, which threatens his health
and his sanity as his hallucinations increase in severity.
Eugenie....................... Ashley Rose Stallings
Roseline...................... Andrena Senola Johnson
Marie......................... Shermia Love
Coriander..................... Joyce Lynette Thompson
Dr. Francis Tumblety.......... Erik A. DeCicco
Madame Doucet................. Kate Holland
Petra the Bartender........... Erin Mann
The Fortune Teller............ Carolyn Purcell
Mr.Luntsen (art dealer)....... Hy Stein
Clown #1...................... George Bailey
Bernadette (Clown #2)......... Jill-Marie Schierbaum
Clown #3...................... Justin Rich
The Green Fairy............... Jennifer Thompson
Stage Manager................. Karissa Singleton
Assistant Stage Manager....... Christina Ruplinger
Costume Designer.............. Terry Wunderlich
Lighting Designer............. Vanessa Ferguson