Past Shows
One Flea Spare
"Rebecca Novick's direction is first-rate."
— Brad Rosenstein, S.F. Bay Guardian
"Crowded Fire's production is well performed....
Much of the production's human story has been created by director Rebecca
Novick's silent moments onstage, in the actors' unspoken reactions,
and in their subtexts."
— John Angell Grant, Backstage
"[Juliet Tanner's] speeches about living
and dying in the plague pits are breathy, panicked, and shot with real
emotion...her conscious effort to invigorate Morse pays off."
— Michael Scott Moore, S.F. Weekly
One Flea Spare
by Naomi Wallace
directed by Rebecca Novick
played
March – April,
2000 at the Phoenix II Theatre, in San Francisco.
What if Mayor Brown and an evicted tenant were quarantined together in an epidemic? Imagine a crisis so devastating that, for comfort, the highest society matron seduced a homeless veteran. This is the dark and erotic story of Naomi Wallace's new play, One Flea Spare. Inspired by the 1992 L.A. riots and their warning of civic breakdown, One Flea Spare's strange, funny story of rich and poor trapped together during the Great Plague of 1665 might as well be set in our current climate of growing class divisions.
Featuring: George Frangides, Tiffany Hoover, Paul Lancour, Juliet Tanner, Darin Wilson
Scenic Design: Mellie Katakalos
Costume Design: Andrea Gross
Lighting Design: Jamie Mulligan
Sound Design: Grant Huberty
Stage Manager: Katy Pieters
Original Music: Darin Wilson