Apparition: An Uneasy Play of The Underknown by Anne Washburn

Tickets go on sale March 24.

Dates and times: Wednesday April 2 through Friday April 4 at 8 p.m., Saturday April 5 at 2 and 8 p.m., Sunday April 6 at 2 p.m. There will be a post-play discussion with playwright Anne Washburn after the opening performance.

Location: Freimann Stage, Harper Joy Theatre at Whitman College

Box office: 509-527-5180 from 10-12 and 1-4 weekdays.

Production Staff:

Director Cynthia Croot

Scenic Designer Thomas G. Hines

Costume Designer Amanda Naylor

Lighting Designer Alan McEwen

Stage Manager Adam Caniparolli

Dramaturg Glenn Odom

Cast:

History: Produced in New York City at Chashama on Theatre Row in 2003 and the Connelly Theatre in Greenwich Village in 2005. Named one of the Top 10 Best of 2005 by Time Out New York.

About the play: Peopled by devils and demons, lonely ladies, and wandering denizens of the Scottish play, Apparition explores the prickly feeling that something is out there and it’s waiting to get you.

Director Cindy Croot says: Anne Washburn has aptly titled her unsettling work for the theatre. Voices in the dark, murmurs, a glimmering, a shimmering, an icy hand on your shoulder...the play takes us from one nerve-wracking moment to another. From

suburban backyards to the witches from Macbeth, characters beckon us

into the chill night, telling us not to worry, that it's OK to open our

eyes.

About the playwright: Anne Washburn's work has been produced or developed by 13P, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Cherry Lane Theatre, The Civilians, Clubbed

Thumb, Dixon Place, Hungary's Kretakor Theater, New York Theatre

Workshop, the Public Theater, Soho Rep, DC's Studio Theater, The

Vineyard Theater and the Williamstown Theater Festival. Her work has

been published in American Theater Magazine, in New Downtown Now, (ed.

Young Jean Lee and Mac Wellman), and in New York Theater Review (ed.

Brook Stowe). Full-length plays include Apparition, The Communist

Dracula Pageant, I Have Loved Strangers, The Ladies, The

Internationalist, and a translation of Euripides' Orestes. She is an

associated artist with 13P, The Civilians, and New Georges, and a

member of New Dramatists. Ms. Washburn will be in residence at Whitman College during the week before the play’s opening. She will lead a playwriting workshop, assist at rehearsals, and participate in a post-performance discussion on opening night.

What the critics say: “Refreshingly spine-tingling! An irresistible collection of gothic tales.” The New York Times. “Just get out and see it—it will frighten the living hell out of you.” Time Out New York. “Creepy and fascinating, with plenty that will keep you up later thinking about it.” Gothamist.