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Hotel Cassiopeia

by Charles L. Mee

Created and performed by the Siti Company
Directed by Ann Bogart

Premiered at The Actors Theater of Louisville's Humana Festival
of New American Play in March 2006

It was subsequently performed at BAM from October 9 to October 13, 2007



Projection Design: Greg King
Set Design: Neil Patel
Costume Design: James Schuette
Lighting Design: Brian H. Scott
Sound Design: Darron L West
Property Design: Marc Walston Company
Stage Manager: Elizabeth Moreau
Dramaturg: Adrien Hansel
Managing Director: Megan Wanlass Szalla

With: Barney O'Hanlon (Joseph), Michi Barall (Waitress), Stephen Webber (Astronomer), Leon Ingulsrud (Herbalist), J. Ed Araiza (Pharmacist),
Ellen Lauren (Ballerina), Akiko Aizawa (Mother)

"...visually stimulating fantasia...a haunting theatrical dreamscape."
— The New York Times

"Evokes the resonant power of Cornell's idiosyncratic art."
— Bloomberg News

"...at the top of their game: playwright Charles Mee and director Anne Bogart and her SITI Company with a gorgeously poetic pictorial reverie..."
— Curtain Up

"...exhilirating visual experience...resonating emotional component..."
— Courier-Journal

[photos above by Michael Brosilow, Courtesy of the Court Theatre]