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
Theatre Bloom Review 5/5 Stars
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