Plays / Chronology / The Octette Bridge Club

Actors Theatre of Louisville
8th Humana Festival of New American Plays

February 22–April 1, 1984
THE OCTETTE BRIDGE CLUB
by P.J. Barry
Directed by Robert Spera

The Cast
Martha (Mrs. Michael McDermitt)
Sylvia Gassell
Mary Margaret Donavan
Elizabeth Moore
Nora (Mrs. Lawrence Hiller)
Ruth Livingston
Connie (Mrs. David Emerson)
Gloria Cromwell
Alice (Mrs. Walter Monahan)
Sally Parrish
Ann (Mrs. John Conroy)
Lynn Cohen
Lil (Mrs. Peter Carmody)
Mary Shelley
Betsy (Mrs. Timothy Bailey)
Beth Dixon
Robert Foster Jon Huffman

The play takes place in a living room in a Rhode Island home.
Act 1: A Friday night in late October, 1934.
Act 2: The night before Halloween, 1944.

Set Design
Paul Owen
Costume Design
Marcia Dixcy Jory
Lighting Design
Geoffrey T. Cunningham
Sound Design
James M. Bay
Property Master

Sam Garst

Fight Director

Steve Rankin

Movement Coach

Rebecca Nixon

Stage Manager

Richard A. Cunningham

Assistant Stage Manager Janice Neustedter
Presented by special arrangement with the William Morris Agency.
The Octette Bridge Club was first read as part of the First Stage Program at Center Stage, Baltimore, Maryland.