GERTRUDE AND OPHELIA IN HELL

                            &

ONE LAST THING BEFORE I FORGET

 

AND TOTO TOO THEATRE COMPANY: APRIL 20-30

 

                 Susan Lyles and Kate Poling

 

     Fresh from The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, And Toto too Theatre Company’s production of “Gertrude and Ophelia in Hell” is currently on view at The Roaming Gnome Theatre in Aurora.   

     In Rebecca Gorman O’Neill’s play about the two women from Elsinore, Susan Lyles is luminous as the ghost of Hamlet’s mother, Queen Gertrude, as she attempts to connive her entitled way out of Purgatory while upstaging Hamlet’s old flame, Ophelia (a charming and pouty Kate Poling.) Ophelia blames the tree branch for her downfall, and Gertrude is claiming not guilty for multiple sins, including adultery. Award-winning Billie McBride directs.

    Accompanying this play, is another one-act by Rebecca Gorman O’Neill, entitled “One Last Thing Before I Forget.”  This is a fascinating look at two discarnate entities who have died and are clinging to their memories of life on earth. It seems that as long as you have one more story that people remember about you, you can still haunt the old homestead.

     Gorman’s writing is excellent, and Kate Poling and Cyndi Parr as Harriet and Violet respectively, perfectly cast by director Melissa McCarl.

     With set and sound design by Darren Smith, Lights by Alexis Bond and Music by Sparkle and the Burn, you can’t go wrong getting tickets for these two one-acts that are part of And Toto too’s 18^th season of plays written by women playwrights.

     Hurry to get tickets. This is the final weekend!

 Roaming Gnome Theatre is located at 2520 Galena Street in Aurora, 

For tickets call 720-583-3975