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Opus
By Michael Hollinger
Opus
By Michael HollingerWhen their mentally-imbalanced violist disappears, a world-class string quartet takes a chance on a gifted but relatively inexperienced young woman.
With only a few days to rehearse a grueling Beethoven masterpiece, the four struggle to prepare their highest-profile performance ever – a televised ceremony at the White House. Their rehearsal room becomes a pressure cooker as passions rise, personalities clash, and the players are forced to confront the fleeting nature of their life’s work.
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Cast
Scott Giguere*
Susan Hyon
Christian Kohn*
Jeffrey Plunkett*
Ron Siebert*
SCOTT GIGUERE previously joined the casts of Metamorphoses and Gross Indecency here at FST. Off Broadway credits include: Firecracker!, Shogo Ohta’s The Water Station. Regional - Time of Your Life (Seattle Rep); Flea in Her Ear (PCPA); Romeo and Juliet, Oklahoma!, Hello Dolly! (Monomoy Theater); Lady’s Not For Burning. He’s toured a play performed in the air in Romania, studied slow tempo movement in Kyoto, and is so happy to return to the white sands of Sarasota!
SUSAN HYON Romeo & Juliet (NYSF/The Public), Tartuffe and Scapin (Classic Stage Company), Bring Love (Guthrie), Henry VI (Shakespeare & Co.), Smoke and Mirrors (The Flea), Janyl (La MaMa). International: Janyl (Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic), Metamorphoses (Teatro Nacional, Lisbon), The Comedy of Errors (Schauspiel Essen, Germany), Scapin (Arezzo, Italy), Snow (Dublin Fringe). Training: Columbia University Graduate Acting 2006.
CHRISTIAN KOHN Recently appeared in the title role in Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure at the Cleveland Playhouse. He has performed both on and off Broadway and regionally. Some favorite productions are Hollywood Arms (The Cort), An Ideal Husband (ATA.), Death of A Salesman (Alabama Shakespeare), Of Mice and Men (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park) Bug (Syracuse Stage), The Real Hush-Hush (Merrimack Rep.) Bus Stop (Fulton Opera House), Among the Thugs (The Goodman), David Copperfield (Steppenwolf), The Invention of Love (Court Theatre)
JEFFREY PLUNKETT is happy to be back at FST where he played Paul in Permanent Collection and DeWitt in Pure Confidence. He also spent a season here in 1996 when he was twelve. NEW YORK: The Cherry Lane Theatre: Concertina’s Rainbow with Mia Dillon, Joyce Van Patten, Ann Pitoniak. Manhattan Theatre Source: All the Rage (NYC premier), Black Comedy/White Liars, Woyzeck., St. Frances of Hollywood, and the Estrogenius Festival of Plays 2003, 2004. Riant Theater Festival: Where Things Are (premiere). Broad Horizons Theatre: Women of Troy. Jeffrey played Greg in over 250 performances of The Sum of Us. REGIONAL: Syracuse Stage, Cincinnati Playhouse, Capitol Rep, Pennsylvania Stage Company, Three Rivers Shakespeare Festival, Chicago's Body Politic, Pennsylvania Centre Stage, GeVA, Fairfield Theatre Company, South Jersey Regional Theatre, and The Metro Lyric Opera. TV: All My Children, Deadline. FILM: Millennium Crisis, FireFly, Solar Vengeance, Alien Uprising.
RON SIEBERT has appeared in theatres all across America. Among the roles he has played are the title roles in Macbeth, Titus Andronicus and The Misanthrope. Other roles include Henry in The Real Thing, M. Gallimard in M. Butterfly, Marc in Art, C.K. Dexter Haven in The Philadelphia Story and Edward Chamberlain in The Cocktail Party. In addition, Ron has taught in the pre-college program at Carnegie Mellon University for the past 10 years.
Creative
Director | Richard Hopkins
Costume Designer | Marcella Beckwith
Lighting Designer | Michael Klaers
Scenic Designer | Nayna Ramey
Sound Designer | John Valines
Production Stage Manager | Dean Curosmith*
* Denotes member of Actors' Equity Association. The Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
