Yale Cabaret: Hot & Cold Showers

A Note from the Cab Team Blood, violence, and death might not seem like the best way to welcome you back to Cab, but we assure you it is!

All season, we’ve hoped to produce theater that invites risk, and today we’re honoring a genre that was once too risky. From a small theater in Paris to a small basement theater in New Haven, Grand Guignol lives on. We’re reaching back to the late 1800s to share stories about pain, pleasure, and passion that is fundamental to the human experience. We’re (still) coming out of isolation and as a Cab team we felt it was important to tell our community that the ghost of seclusion haunts us all. Together, in this audience, we’re shouting into the dark— letting the past know that we’re not afraid. We’re sitting side by side laughing at pain from the past and reflecting on the harm we still must tend to. Hot & Cold Showers: An Evening of Grand Guignol invites us all to come out of the shadows together.

-Jason, Kayodè & Ashley

Hot & Cold Showers An Evening of Grand Guignol

Created, Directed & Proposed by Roman Sanchez and Mikayla Stanley

PRODUCED BY

Roman Sanchez, Mikayla Stanley & Victoria Pekel*

CREATIVE TEAM

Directors Stage Managers Puppetry Design Scenic Consultant Props & SFX Design Costume Design Lighting Design Asst. Lighting Design Sound Design Asst. Sound Design Asst. Sound Design Composer Intimacy Coordinator Fight Choreography Technical Director

Roman Sanchez* & Mikayla Stanley* Anne Ciarlone & Madeline Pages Hit The Lights! Theater Co.* Suzu Sakai Bennet Goldberg* Micah Ohno Jasmine Moore* Eitan Acks* Samuel Ostrove Tyler Schroder* Miriam Huerta* Maxwell Brown* Andrew Aaron Valdez Casey Leach* Aholibama Castañeda*

CAST

Calum Baker* Caroline Campos* Cindy De La Cruz* Grayson Richmond* Anna Roman* Neal Sarin* Kamal Sehrawy* Marlon Vargas* Lil Wenker* *Yale Cabaret Debut

Special Thanks Michael Fields, Jen McClure, “Maggie” The Cat, Angie Negrete, Celine Sanchez, Raymond Scholl II

Mission

Yale Cabaret 55 is a transition; a space to place your art and watch it transform. We do not suggest that your art begins or ends with us, but it will change with us. We invite our community to take risks with us. Failure is not an option; it is an illusion. Like Pantone Color of the Year: Very Peri, we know that “as we emerge from an intense period of isolation, our notions and standards are changing, and our physical and digital lives have merged in new ways.” We seek to be a holding space to explore these changes.

Cabaret 55 is a shared experiment of what it means to come back to theater.

Values • The Cab is a studio • The Cab is a space for trial and error • The Cab is a space for fellowship • There is no utopia, only risk and commitment • There are no assignments, only invitations

Land Acknowledgement

The state of Connecticut and Yale University occupy the traditional, ancestral, and unceded lands of the Mohegan, Mashantucket Pequot, Eastern Pequot, Schaghticoke, Golden Hill Paugussett, Niantic, Quinnipiac, and other Algonquian speaking peoples. We honor and respect their continued relationship with and stewardship of this land, and we acknowledge that Yale University, Yale Cabaret, and those affiliated have benefited from the oppression of these Nations.

Labor Acknowledgement

Yale University does not exist independently from the centuries of forced labor and economic extraction of enslaved people, primarily of African descent, on which this country was built. We are indebted to their labor and their unwilling sacrifice, and we must acknowledge the ongoing violence inflicted on Black and brown people and the resulting impact and generational trauma still felt today.

Leadership Team Executive Artistic Director

Producing Artistic Director

Jason Gray

Kayodè Soyemi

Producing Artistic Director

Ashley M. Thomas

Production Managers

Leo Surach & Cameron Waitkun

Collaborators Graphic Designer

Community Engagement

Anchor Spa x Yale Cabaret

Website Designer

Marketing Associate

Cabaret Assistant

Mikayla Johnson

a.k. payne

Kayodè Soyemi

Roman Sanchez

Chef Kendall Thigpen Sarah Machiko Haber

Advisory Board Stage Management

Sound

Technical Design

Nakia Avila

Evdoxia Ragkou

Eugenio Saenz Flores

Theater Management

Scenic

Lighting

Fanny Abib-Rozenberg Dramaturgy

Projections

Lily Haje

Playwriting

Cat Raynor John Horzen

Danielle Stagger

Acting

Lucas Iverson

Jiahao (Neil) Qui Directing

Garrett Allen

Board of Directors Chair

Wendy Davies Jacob Basri Samanta Yunuen Cubias Eric M. Glover L.T. Gourzong Doug Robinson Linda-Cristal Young

Costumes

Kyle Artone

About the Cab In 1968, the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale students established a basement performance venue in the former home of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity at 217 Park Street.

Envisioned as an alternative outlet for drama school students’ creativity and experimentation, Yale Cabaret became a forum for our expanded New Haven communities, whom we invite to gather around food, drink, conversation, fellowship, and artistry.

Since its founding, the Cabaret has remained in continuous operation, including pivoting to virtual performance during the 2020/21 season. The Cab has produced hundreds of plays, old and new, alongside musicals and musical revues, comedy shows, dance, performance art, and genre-defying performance.

Our supporters have made this storied history happen. With their partnership, we continue this tradition into 2022 and beyond.

Our Supporters Honorary Season Producer ($7,500+)

Indira Etwaroo & The Benevity Community Impact Fund Parachuter ($5,000-$7,499)

Santino Blumetti Brian Tyree Henry

Champion ($2,500-$4,999)

Wendy Davies R. Lee Stump Partners ($1,000-$2,499)

Nina Adams & Moreson Kaplan Joan Channick Eric M. Glover, PhD James G. Hood Bennett Pudlin & Ann Judd Bill & Sharon Reynolds Elaine Ring

Show Sponsors ($500-$999)

Audrey Conrad Betty & Josh Goldberg Jim & Eileen Mydosh Anne Renner

Enthusiasts ($250-$499)

James A. Bundy & Anne Tofflemire Sarah Cain Pamela C. Jordan Corby S. Kummer Erin Rocha

What’s Next SPRING SEASON

Cab 7

February 9-11th

DRAGARET

House of Parachute: A Ballroom Celebration

Produced by Anne Ciarlone, Kemar Jewel, and Natalie King Renaissance. Tens Across The Board. The ninth annual drag show is sure to be the hottest ticket in town. Dragaret is an annual show committed to honoring queer history with performances from drag queens, kings, and thems. This year we’re uplifting Black Drag culture with House of Parachute: A Ballroom Celebration!

Cab 8

February 16-18th

Marry Me a Little by Stephen Sondheim

Proposed by Kemar Jewel & Fanny Abib-Rozenberg What’s love got to do with it? You’re invited to enter the home of two New Yorkers, forced to share an apartment in 2020. Join them as they explore what happens when your dreams come true, and the downside of what happens when your dreams come true. Come and witness a Sondheim show unlike you’ve ever seen before!

Cab 9

February 23-25th

Udo

Written & Proposed by Abigail Onwunali & Nomè SiDone A Nigerian immigrant couple trying to create roots in a new country begin trying for a baby. What should be a simple process of love making amongst husband and wife turns into a tumultuous, life altering night of betrayal, submission and pain. Is their love strong enough to keep them anchored to each other? Or will they admit defeat, disappointing not only themselves but everyone back home?

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