Timon of Athens 00-01
Timon of Athens charts the title character’s devolution from benevolent businessman to misanthropic recluse. Generous to the point of foolishness, Timon recklessly showers gifts and money upon the band of sycophants that surrounds him. “What a number of men eats Timon, and he sees ‘em not!” growls Apemantus, the play’s cynical philosopher. But Timon sees his “friends” for what they truly are when his wealth dries up and they desert him. Leaving behind his beloved city, Timon flees to a no-man’s-land outside of society, where only his faithful steward Flavius and the similarly exiled warrior Alcibiades can even attempt to reason with him. Directed by Michael Kahn, the production is both a Shakespeare Theatre and a DC area premiere. Helen Hayes Award winner Philip Goodwin, who recently appeared at The Shakespeare Theatre as Don Quixote and Lord Byron in Tennessee Williams’s Camino Real and in the title roles of King John and Henry VI, plays the title role in Timon. Although Shakespeare set Timon of Athens in what we now call that city’s golden age, director Kahn and his collaborators have updated this tragedy to another age of excess: the materialistic 1980s. Against the world of cool steel, tempered glass and high fashion envisioned by set designer Walt Spangler, costume designer Elizabeth Clancy, and lighting designer Amy Appleyard, Timon is crushed beneath the wheel of fortune in this cautionary tale.
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Cameron Folmar*
Poet
Patrick Hallahan*
Painter
Brian McMonagle*
Merchant
David Bryan Jackson*
Jeweler
Philip Goodwin*
Timon of Athens
Michael Graves*
Lawyer to Ventidius, 2nd Senator of Athens
Carlos González*
An Old Athenian, 3rd Senator of Athens
Peter J. Mendez
Flaminius, 3rd Homeless Man
Vaneik Echeverria*
Lucilius
Chris Vasquez*
Servilius, 2nd Homeless Man
Ted van Griethuysen*
Apermantus
Emery Battis*
Flavius
Michael Genét*
Alcibiades
Andrew Long*
Lucius
David Sabin*
Lucullus
John Emmert*
Sempronius
Rahmein Mostafavi
Musician, Caphis
Ralph Cosham*
1st Senator of Athens
Bingham Kennedy
A Stockbroker
André Marrero*
Isidore’s Man, 1st Homeless Man
Edward Furs*
Varro’s Man
James Scol
Janitor
Jason Franklin
Lucius’ Assistant
Guy William Molnar
Stranger in the Gym
Jacqueline Baker
Trainer
Joel Weaver
Lucullus’ Assistant
Dancers at the Banquet:
Salinea R. Hilliard, Camille Licate, Sloane Mathieu
Ensemble
Oberon K.A. Adjepong, Jacqueline Baker, Ted Feldman, Jason Franklin, Silinea R. Hilliard, Michael David Johnson, Bingham Kennedy, Camille Licate, John Long, Sloane Mathieu, Cameron McElyea, Peter J. Mendez, Guy William Molmar, Rahmein Mostafavi, James Scol, Joel Weaver
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Michael Kahn
Director
Walt Spangler
Set Designer
Elizabeth Hope Clancy
Costume Designer
Amy Appleyard
Lighting Designer
Kim D. Sherman
Composer
Brian D. Keating
Sound Design
Michael J. Bobbitt
Movement
Ellen O’Brien
Vocal Consultant
PJ Paparelli
Assistant Director
James Latus
Stage Manager
Stuart Howard, Amy Schecter, Howard Meltzer, C.S.A.
Casting Directors
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