Event

Believers

Wily West Productions
Laylah Muran, Executive Producer
Morgan Ludlow, General Managing Director

Present the World Premier Production of

BELIEVERS, by Patricia Milton

Directed by Sara Staley

Quinn J. Whitaker
Lead Design & Producing Director

Anya Kasimierski
Costumes, Prop and Assistant Set Design

Wes Cayabyab
Technical Director

Featuring: Jon Fast, Casey Fern, Kate Jones, Maria Giere Marquis

"[Kate] Jones displays a natural gift for comedy, and [Marie Giere] Marquis' sincere and wily Grace instills a belief in "Believers" that keeps the play on track. Between her, Milton's smart plot twists and the muskrats (don't ask), there's a lot here to enjoy." -- Robert Hurwitt, SFGate

"Playwright Patricia Milton has good comic chops and there are plenty of laughs to be found in this light hearted romance. Actors Casey Fern and Maria Giere Marquis are charming as Rocky and Grace, the battling researchers." -- Charles Kruger, Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle

"The horny muskrats, and the frequent deluges of frogs? Bring it on! [...] April May also has a hilarious habit of vomiting up hilariously mangled Country/Christian platitudes" -- George Heymont- Huffington Post

August 2-25
Thursday/ Friday/ Saturday

8pm

Stage Werx
446 Valencia Street
San Francisco

Is it really better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all? Or is it better to find a pharmaceutical remedy? Believers is an apocalyptic romantic comedy inspired by the Grimms fairy tale The Frog King. The world seems poised on the brink of environmental collapse. Inside a remote pharmaceutical lab, researcher Rockwell Wise is bent on creating a love vaccine to keep his heart safe. His ex-lover, drug developer Grace Wright, hungers to create a love potion to rejuvenate our romance-starved planet. When Grace is hired to lead Rocky's development team in the midst of a company crisis, they become locked in a struggle over love and drugs --- with some very unexpected side effects.

[photographs (c) Jim Norrena 2012]