World Premiere

She Rode Horses Like The Stock Exchange

By Amelia Roper
Directed by M. Graham Smith
Mar 20–Apr 12 · At · Directions

Ticket prices range from $15–35 · come early and save!
Previews: Pay What You Can at the door (cash only)

Details

Amelia Roper

In a nice park, on a nice street, two nice New England couples try very, very hard to be nice to each other as the Global Financial Crisis comes to town. The first Bay Area production by playwright Amelia Roper, She Rode Horses Like the Stock Exchange is an absurdly funny, poignant and terrifying look at upper-crust America. Hold on to your hors d’oeuvres, ladies and gentlemen—things just got messy.

Featuring: George Sellner, Zehra Berkman, Kevin Clarke, Marilee Talkington ★ ◼

Dramaturg: Julie McCormick
Stage Manager: Mina Sohaa Smith ★
Assistant Stage Manager: Sarina Renteria
Scenic Design: Maya Linke
Costume Design: Miriam Lewis
Lighting Design: Stephanie Buchner ★
Sound Design: Hannah Birch Carl
Props Design: Devon LaBelle
Production Manager: Stephanie Alyson Henderson ★

★ Crowded Fire Resident Artist
◼ Member of Actors’ Equity Association

Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
			Mar 20 8pm Preview PWYC	21 8pm Preview PWYC	22 8pm Preview PWYC
24 8pm Opening	25	26	27 8pm	28 8pm	29 8pm
31	Apr 1	2 8pm	3 8pm	4 8pm	5 8pm
7	8	9 8pm	10 8pm	11 8pm	12 8pm

In the Press

“Roper develops her story with engaging hints and small revelations beneath deceptively aimless, uncomfortable exchanges…she does so with a cutting wit and dramatic originality that makes one eager to see what she’ll do next.” — Rob Hurwitt, SF Chronicle

“…what’s sly about Roper’s script is the way she conveys a sense of absurdism – on the spectrum from Beckett to Will Eno – and high comedy for a situation that turns out not to be absurd or all that funny. Except it is.” — Chad Jones, Theater Dogs

Photos

Amy (Zehra Berkman), a successful investment banker, and her husband Henry (George Sellner) try to enjoy their Sunday afternoon in the park, in Amelia Roper’s world premiere, She Rode Horses Like the Stock Exchange, at Crowded Fire Theater.