Custom Made Theatre Company opens 2017 with the Bay Area Premiere of Belleville, by Pulitzer Prize finalist Amy Herzog. The thriller is directed by M. Graham Smith. It runs January 4-28 at Custom Made Theatre, 533 Sutter Street in San Francisco.
Young Americans Zack and Abby have the perfect ex-pat life in Paris: a funky bohemian apartment in up-and-coming Belleville; a stable marriage; and Zack’s noble mission to fight pediatric AIDS. But when Abby finds Zack at home one afternoon when he’s supposed to be at work, the questions and answers that follow shake the foundation of their seemingly beautiful life.
Their relationship is shown in contrast to their Senegalese-born, but younger, landlords, who have struggled their whole lives to have what Abby and Zack take for granted. Belleville is a timely examination of privilege, the lies we tell to keep it at all costs, and the changing view of America overseas. A tense and claustrophobic thriller, Belleville slowly raises the threat of violence until it explodes into a cacophonous and bloody conclusion.
Belleville stars Custom Made regulars Justin Gilman* (Middletown, The Pain & Itch), Alisha Ehrlich (Six Degrees of Separation, The Crucible) and exciting new faces Nkechi Emeruwa (Crowded Fire’s The Shipment) and Nick Sweeney (Custom Made’s Voices of The Quilt workshop). It is directed by M. Graham Smith (Shotgun’s The Rover, Crowded Fire’s She Rides Horses Like the Stock Exchange) in his Custom Made debut.
Belleville’s scenic designer is Carlos Aceves (Breadbox’s The Awakening). It is costume designed by resident designer Brooke Jennings (Six Degrees, The Crucible), lighting design by resident designer Maxx Kurzunski (Chess, Middletown), sound by resident designer Ryan Lee Short (Rapture, Middletown). Props by Chrissy Curl (Rapture). Maddie Gaw serves as dramaturge and Wesley Rou is the assistant director.
*member, Actors’ Equity Association
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Young Americans Zack and Abby have the perfect ex-pat life in Paris: a funky bohemian apartment in up-and-coming Belleville; a stable marriage; and Zack’s noble mission to fight pediatric AIDS. But when Abby finds Zack at home one afternoon when he’s supposed to be at work, the questions and answers that follow shake the foundation of their seemingly beautiful life.
Their relationship is shown in contrast to their Senegalese-born, but younger, landlords, who have struggled their whole lives to have what Abby and Zack take for granted. Belleville is a timely examination of privilege, the lies we tell to keep it at all costs, and the changing view of America overseas. A tense and claustrophobic thriller, Belleville slowly raises the threat of violence until it explodes into a cacophonous and bloody conclusion.
Belleville stars Custom Made regulars Justin Gilman* (Middletown, The Pain & Itch), Alisha Ehrlich (Six Degrees of Separation, The Crucible) and exciting new faces Nkechi Emeruwa (Crowded Fire’s The Shipment) and Nick Sweeney (Custom Made’s Voices of The Quilt workshop). It is directed by M. Graham Smith (Shotgun’s The Rover, Crowded Fire’s She Rides Horses Like the Stock Exchange) in his Custom Made debut.
Belleville’s scenic designer is Carlos Aceves (Breadbox’s The Awakening). It is costume designed by resident designer Brooke Jennings (Six Degrees, The Crucible), lighting design by resident designer Maxx Kurzunski (Chess, Middletown), sound by resident designer Ryan Lee Short (Rapture, Middletown). Props by Chrissy Curl (Rapture). Maddie Gaw serves as dramaturge and Wesley Rou is the assistant director.
*member, Actors’ Equity Association
Custom Made Theatre Company opens 2017 with the Bay Area Premiere of Belleville, by Pulitzer Prize finalist Amy Herzog. The thriller is directed by M. Graham Smith. It runs January 4-28 at Custom Made Theatre, 533 Sutter Street in San Francisco.
Young Americans Zack and Abby have the perfect ex-pat life in Paris: a funky bohemian apartment in up-and-coming Belleville; a stable marriage; and Zack’s noble mission to fight pediatric AIDS. But when Abby finds Zack at home one afternoon when he’s supposed to be at work, the questions and answers that follow shake the foundation of their seemingly beautiful life.
Their relationship is shown in contrast to their Senegalese-born, but younger, landlords, who have struggled their whole lives to have what Abby and Zack take for granted. Belleville is a timely examination of privilege, the lies we tell to keep it at all costs, and the changing view of America overseas. A tense and claustrophobic thriller, Belleville slowly raises the threat of violence until it explodes into a cacophonous and bloody conclusion.
Belleville stars Custom Made regulars Justin Gilman* (Middletown, The Pain & Itch), Alisha Ehrlich (Six Degrees of Separation, The Crucible) and exciting new faces Nkechi Emeruwa (Crowded Fire’s The Shipment) and Nick Sweeney (Custom Made’s Voices of The Quilt workshop). It is directed by M. Graham Smith (Shotgun’s The Rover, Crowded Fire’s She Rides Horses Like the Stock Exchange) in his Custom Made debut.
Belleville’s scenic designer is Carlos Aceves (Breadbox’s The Awakening). It is costume designed by resident designer Brooke Jennings (Six Degrees, The Crucible), lighting design by resident designer Maxx Kurzunski (Chess, Middletown), sound by resident designer Ryan Lee Short (Rapture, Middletown). Props by Chrissy Curl (Rapture). Maddie Gaw serves as dramaturge and Wesley Rou is the assistant director.
*member, Actors’ Equity Association
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Young Americans Zack and Abby have the perfect ex-pat life in Paris: a funky bohemian apartment in up-and-coming Belleville; a stable marriage; and Zack’s noble mission to fight pediatric AIDS. But when Abby finds Zack at home one afternoon when he’s supposed to be at work, the questions and answers that follow shake the foundation of their seemingly beautiful life.
Their relationship is shown in contrast to their Senegalese-born, but younger, landlords, who have struggled their whole lives to have what Abby and Zack take for granted. Belleville is a timely examination of privilege, the lies we tell to keep it at all costs, and the changing view of America overseas. A tense and claustrophobic thriller, Belleville slowly raises the threat of violence until it explodes into a cacophonous and bloody conclusion.
Belleville stars Custom Made regulars Justin Gilman* (Middletown, The Pain & Itch), Alisha Ehrlich (Six Degrees of Separation, The Crucible) and exciting new faces Nkechi Emeruwa (Crowded Fire’s The Shipment) and Nick Sweeney (Custom Made’s Voices of The Quilt workshop). It is directed by M. Graham Smith (Shotgun’s The Rover, Crowded Fire’s She Rides Horses Like the Stock Exchange) in his Custom Made debut.
Belleville’s scenic designer is Carlos Aceves (Breadbox’s The Awakening). It is costume designed by resident designer Brooke Jennings (Six Degrees, The Crucible), lighting design by resident designer Maxx Kurzunski (Chess, Middletown), sound by resident designer Ryan Lee Short (Rapture, Middletown). Props by Chrissy Curl (Rapture). Maddie Gaw serves as dramaturge and Wesley Rou is the assistant director.
*member, Actors’ Equity Association
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