TROUBLE (at the Vista View Mobile Home Estates)

BY AUDREY CEFALY

Directed by Benny Sato Ambush**

Sponsored by Dr. Gail D. McLure

An electrifying new play from the author of Alabaster and Maytag Virgin! In small-town Alabama, ex-mill worker, Euba, desperately does not want the birthday party her mother insists on throwing for her. On the eve of the celebration with their mutual friends, underlying tensions erupt to the surface in this surprising and compassionate dramedy of generational scars and the complex relationship between mothers and daughters.

Cast

(in order of appearance)

Raven....................................................................................................................................Gerrie Benzing*†

Euba........................................................................................................................... Carolyn Messina*†

Bernie...........................................................................................................................................Nan Barnett*†

Yoyo.....................................................................................................................................................Rita Cole*†

Fin........................................................................................................................................Rachel Burttram*†

Lila...........................................................................................................................................Sarah Brackett*†

Stage Manager & Stage Directions

Read by Brendan Powers*†

AUDREY CEFALY (Maytag Virgin, The Gulf, Alabaster, The Last Wide Open, Love is a Blue Tick Hound ) is an alumna of the Playwrights’ Arena cohort at Arena Stage, a recipient of the Walter E. Dakin Fellowship from the Sewanee Writers Conference, and a Dramatist Guild Foundation Traveling Master. Her plays have been produced across the country at theaters such as Cincinnati Playhouse, Florida Studio, Florida Rep, City Theatre, Penobscot Theatre, Gulfshore Playhouse, Merrimack Rep, Signature Theatre, Barter Theatre, and Vermont Stage. Her play The Gulf won the Lammy Award for LGBTQ Drama, and her Pulitzernominated Alabaster is just completing a 10-city Rolling World Premiere, the largest in National New Play Network history.

Audrey Cefaly returns to PlayLab after the 2018 reading of Alabaster, which began its 11-theatre National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere at Florida Rep in 2019/2020.