Past Production
In a nice park, on a nice street, two nice New England couples try very, very hard to be nice to each other as the Global Financial Crisis comes to town. The first Bay Area production by playwright Amelia Roper, She Rode Horses Like the Stock Exchange is an absurdly funny, poignant and terrifying look at upper-crust America. Hold on to your hors d’oeuvres, ladies and gentlemen—things just got messy.
Featuring: George Sellner, Zehra Berkman, Kevin Clarke, Marilee Talkington ★ ◼
Dramaturg: Julie McCormick
Stage Manager: Mina Sohaa Smith ★
Assistant Stage Manager: Sarina Renteria
Scenic Design: Maya Linke
Costume Design: Miriam Lewis
Lighting Design: Stephanie Buchner ★
Sound Design: Hannah Birch Carl
Props Design: Devon LaBelle
Production Manager: Stephanie Alyson Henderson ★
“Roper develops her story with engaging hints and small revelations beneath deceptively aimless, uncomfortable exchanges…she does so with a cutting wit and dramatic originality that makes one eager to see what she’ll do next.” — Rob Hurwitt, SF Chronicle
“…what’s sly about Roper’s script is the way she conveys a sense of absurdism – on the spectrum from Beckett to Will Eno – and high comedy for a situation that turns out not to be absurd or all that funny. Except it is.” — Chad Jones, Theater Dogs
Amy (Zehra Berkman), a successful investment banker, and her husband Henry (George Sellner) try to enjoy their Sunday afternoon in the park, in Amelia Roper’s world premiere, She Rode Horses Like the Stock Exchange, at Crowded Fire Theater.
In a nice park, on a nice street, two nice New England couples try very, very hard to be nice to each other as the Global Financial Crisis comes to town in Amelia Roper’s absurdly funny and poignant world premiere, She Rode Horses Like the Stock Exchange, at Crowded Fire Theater. (left to right: George Sellner, Kevin Clarke, Marilee Talkington, and Zehra Berkman)
Sara (Marilee Talkington) and Max (Kevin Clarke) find themselves out of their element in the world premiere of She Rode Horses Like the Stock Exchange by Amelia Roper playing at Crowded Fire Theater.
Sara (Marilee Talkington) takes a stroll in the park, a magnificent pixelated forest designed by Maya Linke with lighting by Stephanie Buchner. She Rode Horses Like the Stock Exchange is Amelia Roper’s absurdly funny, poignant and terrifying look at upper-crust America, receiving its world premiere at Crowded Fire Theater.
Max (Kevin Clarke) is forced to face some hard truths in Amelia Roper’s absurdly funny, poignant, and terrifying look at upper-crust America in She Rode Horses Like the Stock Exchange at Crowded Fire Theater.
Theater
Potrero Stage
1695 18th St San Francisco, CA 94107
Show info: 415.523.0034 ext 1
Administrative Offices
1695 18th St. C101 Annex, SF CA 94107
415.523.0034 ext 0
