Ryan Farley as Ferdinand, Kate Eastwood Norris as Adult Esme, Barnaby Carpenter as Jan in Rock ‘n’ Roll
2008/2009
SEASON


David Chandler, Kate Eastwood Norris, Julie Czarnecki, Seth Reichgott, Mary McCool, Jered McLenigan, Libby Woodbridge, Barnaby Carpenter; photo by Jim Roese.

Kate Eastwood Norris as Adult Esme, Libby Woodbridge as Alice in Rock ‘n’ Roll

David Chandler as Max, Mark Cairns as Milan in Rock ‘n’ Roll

Ryan Farley as Ferdinand, Barnaby Carpenter as Jan in Rock ‘n’ Roll

Victoria Frings as Magda, Barnaby Carpenter as Jan in Rock ‘n’ Roll

David Chandler as Max, Barnaby Carpenter as Jan in Rock ‘n’ Roll

Barnaby Carpenter as Jan, Ryan Farley as Ferdinand in Rock ‘n’ Roll

Kate Eastwood Norris as Eleanor, Victoria Frings as Gillian in Rock ‘n’ Roll

Libby Woodbridge as Young Esme, Jered McLenigan as The Piper in Rock ‘n’ Roll

This monumental and extraordinarily theatrical event from Academy Award and four-time Tony® Award winner Tom Stoppard (The Invention of Love), was a recent hit on Broadway following a record-breaking run in London. In 1968, as the world is ablaze with rebellion, Jan, a young Cambridge graduate student with little but a prized collection of rock albums, returns to his homeland of Czechoslovakia just as Soviet tanks are rolling into Prague. Back in England, Jan’s mentor, Max, a professor of Marxism, faces his own crisis as the idealism he so strongly held onto smashes against the landscape of political upheaval. Stoppard’s epic tale combines history, conflict, and passion, and spans 22 turbulent years, at the end of which, love remains – and so does rock ‘n’ roll.