Kresge Experimental Theatre
Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts
Sunday Dinner at the
May 7 & 8, 2026 7:30 p.m.
Kresge Experimental Theatre, Watson Fine Arts | Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts
Please Note:
Sunday Dinner at the Denouments, contains a fake firearm. This rifle is a theatrical prop made of foam. It will be on stage throughout the play and will be used at some point.
There will be other moments of violent behavior, but no physical or sexual abuse.
This performance includes use of bright lights and strobe effects throughout the program. Please take precautionary measures as needed.
2026 Theatre Senior Ensemble presents
Sunday Dinner at the
Story by THEA471 Ensemble Experiments
Carmen Almonte • Hannah Balaam • Colin Bourget • Jill Brown • Eli Cowie
Reagan Jensen • Skye Lyons • Lily Maguire • Ben McIntire, John O’Meara • Camden Talmage
Final script by Reagan Jensen • Lily Maguire • John O’Meara
Directed by Colin Bourget • Lily Maguire • John O’Meara
Ensemble Experiments was supervised by Charlotte Meehan
Playwright-in-Residence Professor of English
Dear Audience Members,
Welcome to Sunday Dinner at the Denouements, a tragicomedy devised by senior theatre majors in their capstone course, Ensemble Experiments. This play deals head-on with class struggles, corporate greed that causes illness and death, wealthy family dysfunction, and cruelty in the face of real pain. The themes in this play, in particular incest and domestic violence through verbal abuse, could be activating to some in the audience. The firearm on stage is fake and made entirely of foam.
Since the beginning of spring semester, eleven students have participated in conceptualizing, writing, and now presenting this play in its completed form. All students contributed to imagining the characters, plot, and themes, and writing scenes until mid-semester when three of them entered the process of editing, reassembling, synthesizing, and refining the play you see tonight.
While the students started out wanting to be in a writers’ room, eventually it became clear that fewer writers would help the process move more swiftly to rehearsals with two primary directors and nearly everyone acting. Those students working more behind the scenes have executed set, costume, prop, and lighting design, are stage managing, and generally keeping this ship afloat.
In facilitating these students’ creative process, I witnessed many new developments and I am amazed by this final play, which earns its shocking moments with emotional substance and dramatic cohesion.
Sincerely,
Charlotte Meehan
Playwright-in-Residence Professor of English
You are cordially invited to Dinner with the Denouements
WILLA Carmen Almonte
AMERICA Hannah Balaam
GEREMY Ben McIntire
EMMETT Colin Bourget
VIOLET Jill Brown
PAPA ROGER Eli Cowie
BRIAN Reagan Jensen
GRANDMA GAYE Skye Lyons
JACKIE Lily Maguire
LOUIS John O’Meara
Technical Crew
Technical Director/Lighting Designer/Master Electrician Eli Cowie
Directors Colin Bourget
Lily Maguire
John O’Meara
Scenic Designers Colin Bourget Eli Cowie
Lily Maguire
Stage Managers Jill Brown
Cam Talmage
Assistant Stage Managers/Board Operators Francesca Freeman ’26
Kara Greenlee ’26
Kristina Krochko ’26
Costume Designers Carmen Almonte
Jill Brown
Wardrobe Master Carmen Almonte
Properties Master/Scenic Artist Hannah Balaam
Intimacy Coach Colin Bourget
Table Fabricator Eli Cowie
Electricians
Carmen Almonte, Jill Brown
Lily Maguire, Ben McIntire
Cam Talmage
Faculty Advisor Max Ponticelli
Theatre Staff & Publicity Team
Associate Director, Arts Events & Publicity Jessica F. Kuszaj
Technical Coordinator for the Arts Kristina Kalogeras
Poster Design Carmen Almonte ’26
Eli Cowie ’26
Noe Garcia-Bravo ’26
Box Office
Carmen Almonte ’26, Bessie Reina Figueroa ’26
Maggie Gould ’26, Aslan Gustafson ’27, Rose Gifford ’28
Special Thanks
Charlotte Meehan
Max Ponticelli
Clinton O’Dell
Stephanie Daniels
Kelly Goff
Jessica Kuszaj
Kristina Kalogeras
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