All This Flying, All This Tumbling Down

an evening of monologues by Dario Fo and Franca Rame

directed by Meg Taintor
Translated by Gillian Hanna
New Translation of We All Have the Same Story by Amy Nora Long

Three women. Four lives. One raunchy, dirty and violently hilarious night.

A woman's frantic search for lost keys sheds light on a series of mishaps and misunderstandings; a gorgeous housewife, locked in her apartment by her jealous husband, finds a startling new solution to the problems in her life; Alice falls down the rabbit hole to discover a salacious twist in Wonderland; and an (ahem) unconventional bedtime story features an evil dwarf, an innocent girl, and a foul-mouthed rag-doll.

Featuring A Woman Alone, Rise and Shine, Alice in Wonderless Land and We All Have the Same Story, this rowdy evening of theatre, directed by Meg Taintor, promises to be exciting, funny and provoking with pinch of vulgarity. Check our website for venues and times!

Playwright Dario Fo, recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize for Literature, and performer Franca Rame are two of the most important voices to come out of Italy in the past century. These four monologues, by turns viciously comic and deeply moving, represent the pinnacle of their theatrical collaboration.

For mature audiences only.

	Lorna McKenzie studied theater at UMass Boston.  Most recently she's worked with Imaginary Beasts in Lynn and Whistler in the Dark.  She has also worked with Dangerous Animals, Walpole Footlighters, Jamaica Plain Footlight Club and Medway Players. In her downtime she co-hosts a public access horror show with Mike Legge called The Dungeon of Dr. Dreck and plays with her puppy Zoe.  She hails a mighty thanks to the cast and crew of All this Flying...
	Nikki O'Carroll is delighted to join Whistler for her first show. A recent Boston transplant from Sydney, Australia, she spent the last year working for Shakespeare and Company, where she most recently finished the spring tour of Hamlet as Ophelia. Later this year she will return to Sydney to perform in The Batting Cage at The Pilgrim Theatre.
	Jennifer O'Connor graduated from Salem State with a BFA in theatre performance. She has worked with Chelsea's Theatre Zone, Aforementioned Productions, Imaginary Beasts where she is Company Manager, and Whistler in the Dark where she recently joined as an Artistic Associate. For three years and counting she has been "Lex... your wench for the evening" at The King's Feast in Pawtucket, RI.
The Artistic Team
	Kelly Leigh David (costume designer) is pleased to be returning to Whistler after collaborating on The Possibilities and In Perpetuity Throughout the Universe. A native of Grand Rapids, her favorite design credits include The Bald Soprano, Top Girls, and two original works in her home town entitled Spiders' Bazaar and The Cradle.
	John Herndon (dramaturg) is a recent graduate of the American Repertory Theatre/Moscow Art Theatre Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University (ART/MXAT IATT for short), where he received a degree in dramaturgy.  Recent productions include Island of Slaves, directed by Robert Woodruff, and Three Sisters, directed by Krystian Lupa.  He currently resides in Somerville with two roommates and occasionally a cat.
	Amy Nora Long (translator) is a recent graduate from the American Repertory Theatre/Moscow Art Theatre School Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University where she studied translation and adaption (among other things). She studied Theatre and Italian at Sarah Lawrence College where she began her career in translation with the Sesame Street classic "I Love Trash!" which earned her little recognition and no notoriety. She currently works in the Theatre Department at Suffolk University. She would like to thank the people who taught her all those dirty words.
	Belina Mizrahi (stage manager) is thrilled to be part of Whistler in the Dark.  She daylights as Project Manager for Tempest Productions, working to raise awareness about teenage prostitution through a series of play readings all over the country next spring.
	Ginny Yang (graphic designer) is an aspiring lighting and costume designer. She majored in Theater at Bates College and also studied at Central Saint Martin's College of Art & Design in London. She loves to design postcards and t-shirts, and she is delighted to have designed her second postcard for Whistler in the Dark Theatre!

Whistler in the Dark would like to thank the following people
for their help with All This Flying, All This Tumbling Down:

Matthew Woods and Imaginary Beasts,
Billy Jo Joy and John Lapham at Art&Soul,
Rick and Sheila Taintor,
James Taintor,
Veronica Davidov,
Ed Goyette and the gang at Beantowne Coffee House.
Alan Nidle, Bobby Callahan, Dave Balerna, Andrew DiMola,
Jennifer Johnson and John Peitso at the Charlestown Working Theatre,
Cheryl Faraone and Haylee Freeman at Middlebury College,
Mark Killian, Alejandro Simoes, Emily Otto, Billy Swift
and the foul-mouthed cast, crew and staff of Blue Man Group
and the Charles Playhouse Lounge for their inspiration.