Labour & Leisure
Labour & Leisure
One Act Plays by Joe Orton
The Good and Faithful Servant - directed by Ray Kasper
The Erpingham Camp - directed by Robert Tobin
November 12 – December 11, 2010
About the show: This is a celebration of two very strong yet more obscure works by the great Joe Orton. A semi-autobiographical satire, The Good and Faithful Servant is the blackest of Orton's black comedies but still has touches of "Ortonesque" wackiness. This naughty indictment of capitalism, labor, religion and sexual mores will have you laughing in the theatre and arguing about socialism on the way home. The Erpingham Camp is an outlandish farce in which a respectable group of English campers are innocently pleasuring themselves at a 1960's holiday camp before catastrophe strikes and they find themselves fighting against the camp's rigid, moral and patronizing manager, "Erpingham". When their rights are violated, the campers take a stand. Led by a bloke in leopard-skin and a chap with no pants, revolution ignites and pandemonium reigns.
PRODUCTION TEAM
Robert Tobin* - Director/Sound Designer
Ray Kasper* - Director/Sound Designer
Jeremiah Barr* - Lighting Designer/Set Designer
Samantha Barr* - Stage Manager
Amy Kasper* - Costume Designer
Lea Tobin* - Costume Designer
Gerard Jamroz - Photographer
*denotes AstonRep company member
CAST
Barbara Button
Charlie Cascino
John Collins
Johnny Garcia
Sara Greenfield
Amy Kasper*
Ray Kasper*
Ian Knox
Kathleen Lawlor
Jeff McVann
Kipp Moorman
Reviews
“Amy Kasper dominates the show. Kasper knows how to give her ruthless corporate villainess just the right touch of flirtatious charm…McVann, as Buchanan, is terribly strong in his comic portrayal of the stiffed working stiff.”