On the 50th Anniversary of The Ridiculous Theatrical Company and 30 years since Ludlam’s death, La MaMa celebrates the artistry of Charles Ludlam. A fully produced revival of Ludlam’s early masterwork Conquest of the Universe or When Queens Collide directed by Everett Quinton is the centerpiece of the Ludlam celebration. Conquest is an epic collage inspired by Marlowe’s Tamburlaine the Great that is as outrageous and timely today as when first performed in 1967.
CAST
* Denotes member of Actors’ Equity
Everett Quinton*
COSROE & ZABINA
Beth Dodye Bass*
NATOLIA & WOMAN IN A CELL
Lenys Samá
BAJAZETH
Géraldine Dulex*
VENUS
Grant Neale*
TAMBERLAINE
Brian Belovitch*
ALICE
Jeanne Lauren Smith
EBEA
Shane Baker*
TECHELLUS
Eugene the Poogene
MAGNAVOX & PESTILENCE
Sommer Carbuccia
USUMCASANE & WITCH OF ENSOR & WAR & CONSUELA
John Gutierrez
ORTYGIUS & HUNGER & NEWSBOY & BALLERINA of URANUS
Everett Quinton recently directed Charles Ludlam’s, THE ARTIFICIAL JUNGLE with Theater Breaking Through Barriers. Everett also directed IN THE BAR OF A TOKYO HOTEL by Tennessee Willliams with Theater 292 and THE WINTER’S TALE by William Shakespeare with Yorick Theater. As an actor Everett recently appeared as Enobarbus and one of five Cleopatras in Shakespeare’s ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA. Everett also appeared as Paulina and Autolycus in THE WINTER’S TALE, and Idris Seabright in DROP DEAD PERFECT, to name a few. Everett is a long time member of THE RIDICULOUS THEATRICAL COMPANY where he appeared in Charles Ludlam’s CAMILLE, BLUEBEARD AND THE SECRET LIVES OF THE SEXISTS. Georg Osterman’s DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE and BROTHER TRUCKERS. As well as his own plays, A TALE OF TWO CITIES, LINDA AND CARMEN.
Charles Ludlam was an American actor, director, and playwright. Ludlam joined John Vaccaro‘s Play-House of the Ridiculous, and after a falling out, became founder of the Ridiculous Theatrical Company in New York City in 1967. He taught or staged productions at New York University, Connecticut College for Women, Yale University, and Carnegie Mellon University. He won fellowships from the Guggenheim, Rockefeller and Ford Foundations and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts. He won six Obie Awards, the Rosamund Gilder Award for distinguished achievement in the theater in 1986 and in 2009, Ludlam was inducted posthumously into the American Theater Hall of Fame.
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Conquest of the Universe or When Queens Collide to Celebrate 50th Anniversary at La MaMa
Cast Complete for Charles Ludlam’s CONQUEST OF THE UNIVERSE OR WHEN QUEENS COLLIDE at La MaMa
Special Event
Free Staged Reading
November 5th following the 4pm performance
TheaterMania’s Zachary Stewart & Everett Quinton
Le Bourgeois
Avant-Garde
Written by Charles Ludlam
Directed by Tim Cusack | Assistant Directed by Bob Gilbo
Wednesday, Nov 8th
at La MaMa Galleria (47 Great Jones St)
7:00 PM
Cast
Nico Kiefer | Michael Levinton | James Arthur M.
Brandon Olson | Julia Pearlstein | William Alex Runnels
Makaela Shealy | Debbie Troché | Luis Villabon
Jack Waters
Stage
Blood
Written by Charles Ludlam
Directed by John Jesurun
Wednesday, Nov 15th
at La MaMa Galleria (47 Great Jones St)
7:00 PM
Cast
Ben Forster | John Hagan | Alenka Kraigher | Noah Arbesfeld
Claire Buckingham | Nicky Paraiso | Asta Hansen
Coffeehouse Chronicles #144: Charles Ludlam and the 50th Anniversary of The Ridiculous Theatrical Company
November 11, 2017