In our 21st season, Red Monkey Theater Group, in residence at the College of Mount Saint Vincent, explores plays about women who do not conform to social, professional, and political expectations.
Bartow-Pell Mansion-Museum, Bronx, NY
DUNGEONS AND MONKEYS: A Charity Gaming Event
Saturday, November 9
Cahill Theater, College of Mount Saint Vincent
Our annual gaming/storytelling/theater event returns to Cahill Theater. Play Dungeons & Dragons all day long with your favorite Red Monkey performers, then watch an all-star game in the evening complete with special effects and surprises provided by our design team. Once again, 50% of the proceeds from this event will benefit Midnight Run, a volunteer organization dedicated to finding common ground between the housed and the homeless.
You can order online and reserve a spot in the 12:15pm or 4:15pm sessions for $10 OR purchase an ALL DAY PASS for $20 and play in BOTH sessions, enjoy a pizza dinner at 7pm, and watch the final adventure at 8:15pm.
In addition, all advance purchasers will also receive a complimentary copy of “Secrets of the Blind Palace“, an original Dungeons & Dragons adventure written by RMTG Artistic Director Tal Aviezer and featuring original artwork by RMTG Production Designer Carolyn Fuchs.
Tickets at the door will be $15, or $30 for the all-day pass.
SCHEDULE
11am-12pm: HEROES WANTED
New to Dungeons and Dragons? From 11am-12pm, we will help you create your very own adventurer and explain some of the basics. FREE FOR EVERYONE.
12:15PM – 3:15PM SESSION ONE: GAME ON
Set forth and fight evil as part of a 1st-level adventure with a Red Monkey Theater Group Dungeon Master. For this session only, there will be one table reserved for players ages 12 & under! Click for tickets.
4:15pm-7:15PM SESSION TWO: YOU SHALL NOT PASS
Set forth and fight evil as part of a 1st or 2nd level adventure with a Red Monkey Theater Group Dungeon Master. Ages 13 & up. Click for tickets.
7:15pm-8pm – PIZZA DINNER for ALL-DAY PASS holders
8:15pm-10:30PM – DUNGEONS & MONKEYS
Watch as Red Monkey Theater Group actors take on an adventure with Dungeon Master Matt Gordon (Macbeth, Rhinoceros, Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere, Julius Caesar, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, King Lear) accompanied by some special lighting, sound effects and other surprises from the RMTG design team. FREE TO WATCH FOR EVERYONE.
SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE ADVENTURE OF THE DYING DETECTIVE
Adapted by Tal Aviezer from the story by Arthur Conan Doyle Directed by Melinda O’Brien
Co-production with M&M Performing Arts Company
November 15 – December 8
Lyndhurst Mansion, Tarrytown NY
Called upon to save a young man from the clutches of addiction, Sherlock Holmes is drawn into a thrilling new case that will take him from a high society dinner party to London’s opium dens – and in this case, the victim may turn out to be Holmes himself. Follow Holmes and Watson on a trip through the inimitable Lyndhurst Mansion on the trail of this classic mystery. Together with the famous detectives, we’ll explore Lyndhurst Mansion room-by-room as we’re drawn deeper into the secrets of the case.
by Henrik Ibsen
January 26 – February 2
Cahill Theater, College of Mount Saint Vincent
Join us for Ibsen’s masterpiece of realism – a story that permanently changed the face of world drama. After returning from her honeymoon, Hedda discovers that her marriage will not be the life of wealth and excitement she anticipated. Her own desires seemingly thwarted, she sets out to change to change the course of another person’s destiny.
GOOD PEOPLE
by David Lindsay-Abaire
directed by Ed Friedman
Co-production with GoJo Clan
February 22 – March 8
Cahill Theater, College of Mount Saint Vincent
Red Monkey Theater Group partners with GoJo Clan to present a tough and tender play by Pulitzer Prize winner David Lindsay-Abaire. Welcome to Southie, a Boston neighborhood where a night on the town means a few rounds of bingo, where this month’s paycheck covers last month’s bills, and where Margie Walsh has just been let go from yet another job. Facing eviction and scrambling to catch a break, Margie thinks an old fling who’s made it out of Southie might be her ticket to a fresh new start. But is this apparently self-made man secure enough to face his humble beginnings? Margie is about to risk what little she has left to find out. With his signature humorous glow, Lindsay-Abaire explores the struggles, shifting loyalties, and unshakeable hopes that come with having next to nothing in America.
SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES Adapted by Tal Aviezer from the story by Arthur Conan Doyle Directed by Tal Aviezer
Co-production with M&M Performing Arts Company
June 6-14
Bartow-Pell Mansion-Museum, Bronx, NY
Join Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson on a trip to the sinister Copper Beeches (played by the inimitable Bartow-Pell Mansion-Museum), where a desperate young governess finds herself at the center of a baffling mystery. Together with the famous detectives, we’ll explore the mansion room-by-room as we’re drawn deeper into the secrets of the Rucastle family – their threatening hound, menacingly enthusiastic patriarch, strange requests and rules, the locked and forbidden room on the top floor, and the mysterious stranger who keeps appearing at the windows.
