R25 Theater

R25 Theater Company

with the support of California Stage presents

Friday, October 25, Saturday Ixt. 26 and Sunday Oct. 27 performances are cancelled due to cast illness. If you have purchased tickets, R25 Theater Company will be reaching out to you.

It’s the holiday season in a Midwestern funeral parlor, and one man and two women are saying their final goodbyes. But things don’t go as you might expect when one is a thief, one is an undertaker, and one is a widow with a faulty memory.

Jeffrey Hatcher has crafted three comedic/dramatic monologues that take you through the highs and the lows of a lifetime, or rather, three lifetimes.

The cast features three local actors: Michael Coleman is Emil; Jessica Brooks is Mac, and Erin Renfree is Virginia.

Performance dates are October 11 – November 3, Fridays and Saturdays at 7pm and Sundays at 2pm, and an added Saturday 2pm performance on November 2. Tickets are $22.

What the critics are saying:

“Hatcher’s three brief, intermissionless playlets have the merits and liabilities of that style of American short-story writing which started with O. Henry and, from the careful set-up to the ironic payoff, has never really ended.” —New York Post.

“Nowadays it is rare to encounter a genuine writer in the theater—someone, that is, who thinks about such things as character and structure, someone who has a genuine feel for language. So when such a thing comes along, it’s exciting…THREE VIEWINGS is the genuine article…Hatcher’s voice is one I want to hear again soon.” —New York Daily News.

Above: photos from recent productions