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ON THE VERGE
by Eric Overmeyer

CAST
Brittany Griffins as FANNY
Katelyn May as ALEX
Kaylie Rainer as MARY
Niclas Olson as GROVER

STAGE MANAGER
​Bethany Bevier

DIRECTED BY
Niclas Olson
By popular demand, Eric Overmeyer’s ON THE VERGE or, THE GEOGRAPHY OF YEARNING returns to the New Muses stage for a special one-night-only encore performance to close out our tenth season. Follow three intrepid Victorian explorers as they traverse the wilderness braving cliffs, trolls, and even a yeti in this delightful play. 
Dukesbay Theater
508 6th Ave #10, Tacoma WA
8.25.2019 at 7:00
ONE NIGHT ONLY
"In Eric Overmyer's chimerical new comedy, three Victorian lady explorers set out on an adventure that takes them to darkest Africa, highest Himalaya and Terra Incognita.... Blending Tom Stoppard's limber linguistics with the historic overview of a Thornton Wilder, Mr Overmyer takes his audience on a mirthful safari...spinning into time travel.  Three `sister sojourners', each a prototypical Victorian lady explorer, equipped with dialog as pithy as their helmets, thwack their machetes through the wilderness while telling tales of past jaunts among the natives. As intrepid trekkers, they put the lie to any charge that they are representatives of a weaker sex. Mr Overmyer has written a play that is joyfully feminist.  Heroines to their heart, the explorers can accommodate themselves to any emergency (natural or man-made), although they are momentarily disoriented as they approach modern times. In their kaleidoscopic adventure, they journey through a rain forest of hundreds of artifacts from the future—household utensils, mechanical contrivances and a side-view automobile mirror that reads `Objects in mirror may be closer than they appear'. How does one deal with such a chimera?... In the play there is wit within the palaver. As one traveler says, `I have seen the future and it is slang'. The author himself is an ecologist of language and a shrewd observer of our quest to control our environment—and the environment of others.... A frolicsome jaunt through a continuum of space, time, history, geography, feminism and fashion, Mr Overmyer's cavalcade is on the verge of becoming a thoroughly serendipitous journey.” -The New York Times
“Cross the wordplay of S J Perelman with the world-in-a-time-warp vision of Caryl Churchill and you might approximate the special flavor of ON THE VERGE." - The New York Times
On The Verge is produced by special arrangement with Broadway Play Publishing, Inc.