2026 Theatre Ensemble Experiments presents Dinner at the Denouements

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 Technical Coordinator for the Arts Poster Design

Box Office

Jessica F. Kuszaj

Kristina Kalogeras Carmen Almonte ’26 Eli Cowie ’26 Noe Garcia-Bravo ’26

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 Arts@Wheaton Wheaton Campus Safety