HOW TO DISAPPEAR COMPLETELY AND NEVER BE FOUND

SEASON 2011

By Fin Kennedy
Directed by Nancy Keystone

When a young executive’s life spirals out of control, overwhelmed with guilt, deceit and fear, he decides to “disappear,” and pays a visit to a master of the craft in the form of a seafront fortune teller. Haunted by visitations from a pathologist who swears he is already lying flat out on her slab, he begins a nightmarish journey to the edge of existence that sees him stripped of everything that made him who he was.

cast

Brad Culver
Carolyn Ratteray
Time Winters
Valerie Spencer
Nick Mills

Understudies

Danny Barclay
Paige Lindsey White
Steve Peterson
Cari Kabinoff
Mark McClain Wilson

Production team

Casting – Julia Flores
Production Stage Manager – Casey McGann
Scenic Design – Nancy Keystone
Lighting Design – Chris Kuhl
Original Music & Sound Design – John Zalewski
Video Design – Adam Flemming
Costume Design – Ann Closs-Farley
Dialect Coach – Tracy Winters
Properties Design – Robyn Taylor
Key Art Design – Christopher Kumoro
Production Photographer – Ed Krieger

“How To Disappear Completely [and Never Be Found] provides just the kind of beautifully tooled adventurous theater we have come to expect from The Theatre @ Boston Court. This time around, in addition, we have in our midst the most exciting breakthrough performance this reviewer has seen since Mark Ruffalo made a memorable Los Angeles debut in David Steen’s Avenue A almost twenty years ago, and it has been achieved in exactly the same way: not by force of personality alone but by becoming the character. It’s called acting. Meet Brad Culver.” – Stage and Cinema

“In the play’s Southern California premiere, director Nancy Keystone’s stylish cinematic staging offers much visceral excitement, and a chameleon-like ensemble pulls off a wide range of impressive characterizations.” – Backstage

“Nancy Keystone’s uncompromising staging, making imaginative use of a monochromatic set she designed of unwelcoming gray walls menacingly flecked with Adam Flemming’s futuristic video projections, catches the sense of urban anomie to a point that would have had Kafka waving a little white flag. It’s an unrelievedly grim landscape, where technology keeps one isolated and corporate savagery is always ready to pounce on the weak and wounded. (John Zalewski’s original music and sound design enhance the production’s overall chilling effect.)” – LA Times

“To say that “How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found” is a mystery is inaccurate and accurate at the same time. What happens to Charlie is, indeed, a mystery to the character himself. Untangling the truth may end up being the stuff of conversation between you and those you brought with you long after the play is done. Suffice it to say that this stuff is compelling theater and well worth stretching your imagination to absorb.” – Pasadena Star News