Past Shows
'Maid
"[An] invigoratingly imaginative production...a
first-rate ensemble. "
— Robert Hurwitt, S.F. Chronicle
"It would be hard to imagine a more evocative
production for Ehn's world than what Crowded Fire director Rebecca
Novick has wrought at Exit Stage Left."
— Richard Dodds, Bay Area Reporter
"[T]he staging is consistently interesting...Novick
and her crew are putting on an entertaining show."
— Chad Jones, Oakland Tribune
'Maid
by Erik Ehn
directed by Rebecca Novick
played
July 11 – August
16, 2003, at the EXIT Theatre, in San Francisco.
A
haunting mermaid fable for anyone who's ever heard the sirens singing,
and considered following their call. Transplanting Hans Christian Andersen's
famous Little Mermaid to a war-torn industrial bay, Erik Ehn explodes
the fairy tale we're all familiar with, taking audiences on a journey
into the depths of the sea, and the depths of our most secret desires.
At a moment when we have every reason to view the future with pessimism,
Ehn's post-modern fable offers us both a hymn to the power and possibility
of change, and a cautionary tale about the price we all pay for achieving
our dreams.
Featuring: Greeta Ahart, Lea Bender, Adam Chipkin, Alexandra
Creighton, 
Michael Dorado, Laura Hope, Robert Martinez, Juliet Tanner,
Mollena Williams, Beth Wilmurt, Jason Wong
Scenic
Design: James Mulligan
Costume Design: Bree Hylkema
Lighting Design: Heather Basarab
Choreography: Dawn Frank
Composer: David Rhodes
Stage Manager: Anna Capp
Assistant Stage Manager: Beth Powell
Photographer: Nicholas Rab