The Monroe Doctrine

Written by Mark Scharf

Presented by Vest Pocket Productions

Directed by Ann Turiano

August 16-31, 2024

Location: Baltimore Theatre Project, 45 W Preston St, Baltimore, MD 21201

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Synopsis

What does success mean in America? What does it mean when you don’t make it? 

In THE MONROE DOCTRINE, poet and adjunct professor Real Monroe tries to hold his world together from his trailer on Hog Island on Maryland’s eastern shore. It’s Memorial Day weekend and the men of the family, counterbalanced by the influence of three strong and grounded women, gather for what may be the last time to meet the wishes of Real’s Korean War veteran father, an assisted living facility refugee. When Real’s estranged sons arrive, expectations and reality collide and even the students he has tried to help leave him scrambling for solid ground in a shifting landscape of obligations and power. The play can be thought of as an elegy to the lost place of the artist in the world and to twentieth century versions of masculinity, the ideal now which is ever changing like a shapeshifter with amnesia.

Cast

John Covaleskie – Tedward
Nick Cherone – Dylan
Griffin DeLisle – Crane
Makeima Freeland – Madison
Anne Hammontree – Donna
Michael P Sullivan – Real
Yodelle Tan – Abbie

Creative/Design Team

Playwright – Mark Scharf

Producer – Marianne Gazzola Angelella

Producer – Larry Lambert

Director – Ann Turiano

Stage Manager – Jesse Lescallette

Assistant Stage Manger – Breanna Stewart

Assistant Stage Manager/Promotion- Dominique Solomon

Costume Design- Heather Johnston

Fight Choreography – Larry Malkus

Lighting Design – Chuck Atwell

Photographer – Rand Black

Props/Set Dressing – Hunter King

Set Design and construction- Bruce Kapplin and Nate Doty

Sound Design – Alexandra Perry

Showtimes

Preview, August 15 @ 8pm
August 16 @ 8pm
August 17 @ 8pm
August 18 @ 4pm

August 23 @ 8pm
August 24 @ 8pm
August 25 @ 4pm

August 30 @ 8pm
August 31 @ 8pm