Stephen
Caffrey
2006
Stephen Caffrey starred in David Mamet's 1992 play
"Oleanna" as John the Professor , from June 16 to July 9 at the theatre, 29243 Pacific Coast
Hwy., Malibu.
The play explores the relationship between power and language as it develops
between a male professor on the verge of winning tenure and his failing female
student, who comes to see him for help.
"A series of misunderstandings and misinterpretations, all involving gender
and power relations, leads to a climax in which no matter where your sympathies
lie, you're wrong," according to theatre spokeswoman Jackie Bridgeman.
Stephen Caffrey and Darby Stanchfield portray the leads in the play directed
by Taylor Nichols.
Stephen plays John the professor .
2006
3rd Annual Slamdance On Stage
Thursday April 13, 2006
Hay's Code (Comedy) by Andrew B. Smith
Hosted by Evidence Room
Directed by Bart DeLorenzo
Featuring Stephen Caffrey
Winner of the Skyline Screenplay Award for the best story set in a metropolitan
city at a staged reading performed by the Theatre for the New City. Andrew B.
Smith
took the top prize for his work, "
Hay's Code ," an ensemble comedy about a gay director in 1934 Hollywood who must make a gay movie without
revealing the film's true content or, naturally, his own sexuality. An after
party followed the reading at the Lit Lounge, sponsored by Stella Artois.
Dec
2005 - Jan
2006
Restoration
Comedy
by Amy Freed
December 3, 2005 - January 7, 2006
Bagley Wright Theatre
Running Time: 2 hrs 30 min with 1 intermission.
Stephen Caffrey as
Loveless. Photo by Chris Bennion
A review of the Play -found at http://www.zwire.com/site/tab1.cfm?newsid=15756797&BRD=855&PAG=461&dept_id=515224&rfi=6
March
2005:
Stephen
Caffrey was in a production of 'The
Voysey Inheritance'.
Stephen Caffrey (acclaimed for his portrayal of Torvald in
A.C.T.’s A Doll’s House last season)
portrays Hugh Voysey, the youngest and most bohemian of the Voysey brothers.
The Voysey Inheritance ran March 18-April 17 -2005 and wass
directed by Carey Perloff
Following A.C.T.’s run, the production
complete with Stephen Caffrey played in Missouri at the Kansas City Repertory Theatre
April 29 through May 22.
Now in its 41st season, Kansas City Repertory Theatre
(formerly Missouri Rep) is one of the nation’s leading resident professional theatres
and is the professional theatre in residence at the University of
Missouri, Kansas City.
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with permission,
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January
2005:
Stephen Caffrey starred as Darius Wheeler in the
Laguna Playhouse’s production of “36 Views”. Which ran from December 28th
- January 30th 2005
Written By Naomi Iizuka & Directed by Chay Yew
Stephen
Caffrey with Tess Lina
Picture taken by Ed Krieger, reproduced with permission.
Copyright © 2005 Laguna Playhouse. All rights reserved.
CAST
(In
Order of Appearance )
John
Bell ...........................................................JIM ANZIDE
Owen
Matthiassen ...........................................JOHN APICELLA
Claire
Tsong .................................................. MELODY BUTIU
Darius
Wheeler ...........................................STEPHEN CAFFREY
Elizabeth
Newman-Orr .................................... SHANNON HOLT
Setsuko
Hearn ........................................................ TESS LINA
Stephen Caffery,John Apicella & Tess Lina
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with permission,
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Below is an extract from a review by Cornel
Bonca , the full review can be found at http://www.ocweekly.com/ink/05/18/theater-bonca.php
The play’s about a slightly overly dashing
art dealer named Darius Wheeler (Stephen Caffrey), who comes upon what appears
to be an 11th century Japanese manuscript called a "pillow book,"
written by a Japanese courtesan a millennium ago and containing her meditations
on her many lovers. Darius, who has "an eye for beautiful
things"—paintings, ancient manuscripts, women—attracts a crowd with his
discovery: a couple of art professors; his brilliant erratic assistant; a
seducible journalist; and a cynical, disappointed artist who does restorations
for him. The manuscript’s tales are dramatized in stately fluid scenes in
which masked actors employ the slow ritual movements of Noh drama. Iizuka braids
such scenes with contemporary ones, which develop the thick and shrewd skein of
motivations—romantic, deceitful, financial—animating the characters’
efforts to profit either from the manuscript’s authenticity or forgery. This
interplay, brought off smooth as can be, is in keeping with Iizuka’s desire to
create a dramatic form that, as she puts it elsewhere in the play, mixes
"the Asian and the Western . . . the classical and the contemporary."
Another review is to be
found at : http://u.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,211~23542~2637936,00.html
http://www.lagunaplayhouse.com
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The Real Thing
Stephen
Caffrey and Diana
LaMar are actors Max and Charlotte, performing in a play within a play
in the opening scene of Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing.
Stephen is currently busy rehearsing for the
October 21st opening of Tom Stoppard's 'The Real Thing' at The Geary Theatre in
which he plays Max.
No only is this is his second time this year working at the American
Conservatory Theater , but its also his second time working along side of Rene
Augesen.
Stephen Caffrey
(Max) and Diana LaMar (Charlotte)
Stephen Caffrey, René
Augesen, Diana LaMar, and Marco
Barricelli
Rehearsal Photos by Ryan
Montgomery
Images and information Reproduced
with permission,
Copyright © 2004 American Conservatory Theater. All rights reserved.
Below is
in part the press
release with details, dates & times
of the performances and ticket information and details of the website if
you wish to find out even more about A.C.T.
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Rene
Augesen and Marco Barricelli Are The Real Thing!
SAN FRANCISCO,
September 15, 2004 American Conservatory Theater presents Tom
Stoppard’s The Real Thing––winner of the 1984 Tony Award for best play and the
2000 Tony Award for best revival––directed by A.C.T. Artistic
Director Carey Perloff and featuring A.C.T. core acting company
members and associate artists René Augesen and Marco
Barricelli. A witty and deeply felt love story in which the line
between reality and theatrical artifice is often blurred, The Real
Thing is Perloff’s fifth collaboration with Stoppard, who
considers A.C.T. his “American home.”
Heralded by the New York Times upon its Broadway debut as
"the most bracing play that anyone has written about love and
marriage in years," The Real Thing is widely considered to
be Tom Stoppard’s most accessible work. Henry, a playwright, is
married to Charlotte, an actor. Their friends Annie and Max are also
actors, and when his new play about marriage and infidelity is staged,
Henry’s life begins to imitate his art. As the four characters move
between the fictional world of Henry’s play and the reality of their
day-to-day lives, both couples are ultimately compelled to re-examine
their relationships and question whether the love they have is the love
they want.
"The Real Thing contains everything delicious in the theater," says Perloff. "It’s sexy, hilarious,
heartbreaking, poetic, and
infused with Stoppard’s characteristic charm, wit, and heart. Add to
that four glorious actors in the central roles and you have theatrical
heaven."
Following a year long sabbatical, A.C.T. Associate Artist and core
acting company member Marco Barricelli returns to the Geary Theater as Henry. Barricelli spent the greater part of last season in
Italy, where he worked with dramaturg Beatrice Basso on a new adaptation of
Luigi Pirandello’s novel One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand.
(The adaptation, titled One, No One… and featuring Barricelli
as the sole character in a production directed by Nestor Saied, runs at
Zeum Theater September 17–19.)
A.C.T. Associate Artist and core acting
company member René Augesen portrays Annie. Stephen Caffrey,
seen last season as Torvald alongside Augesen’s Nora in Carey
Perloff’s acclaimed production of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House,
portrays Max. Diana LaMar, last seen in the Bay Area in Berkeley
Repertory Theatre’s production of The Beaux’ Stratagem,
portrays Charlotte.
Rounding out the cast of The Real Thing are three members of the
A.C.T. Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) Program class of 2005: Andy
Butterfield portrays Billy, a young actor with whom Annie becomes
professionally and romantically entangled; Clayton B. Hodges
portrays Brodie, a soldier/activist turned fledgling playwright who
challenges Henry’s ideals about the power of art in an era of
political upheaval; and Allison Jean White portrays Debbie, Henry and
Charlotte’s precocious daughter.
The Real Thing
Written by Tom Stoppard
Directed by Carey Perloff
Cast: René Augesen (Annie), Marco Barricelli (Henry), Andy Butterfield
(Billy), Stephen Caffrey (Max), Clayton B. Hodges (Brodie), Diana LaMar
(Charlotte), Allison Jean White (Debbie)
Designers: J. B. Wilson (scenery), Fumiko Bielefeldt (costumes), Nancy
Schertler (lighting), and A.C.T. Resident Sound Designer Garth Hemphill
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Stephen Caffrey finished in a run of the play by Kelly Stuart, "Homewrecker". Here you will find reviews from various publications as well as a picture of Stephen from the play.
The Evidence Room
reviewed by Travis Michael Holder
Homewrecker, now in its world premiere at the Evidence Room, is another crafty and typically bizarre comedy from Kelly Stuart, possessor of the same wonderfully warped mind responsible for Mayhem last year at ER and the remarkable Demonology several years ago at the Taper. And of course, there couldn’t be a better place to debut anything by Stuart than at ER—and no better director to understand her intentions than L.A.’s own resident theatrical madman Bart DeLorenzo.
Two admitted homewreckers (Lauren Campedelli and Shannon Holt) sit in an airport terminal, each discussing her own extracurricular romance with a different married man. One admits to being a younger version of her lover’s current wife, “just not quite as emotionally dead,” while the other worries that if her wealthy Texan boyfriend finally left his wife and took up with her (“It’s very difficult when you’re rich”), she doesn’t have a clue what would happen to her voiceover work. Their ridiculously complicated relationships are both in flux, for sure. “Adultery should be fun,” laments one, “or why do it?”
The verbal sparing between Beth and Cindy is inventively juxtaposed with random appearances by George W. Bush himself (that dead-on scamp Don Oscar Smith), spouting actual statements attributed to the world’s dumbest and second most dangerous leader of all time. “I think we agree,” he grins maniacally, “that the past is over.” As each speech is punctuated by the sounds of urban violence, explosions and gunshots, the guy just keeps ducking, then reemerges unscathed to continue to spew his best presidential nonsense. There’s “The future is where wings take dreams” and “This issue doesn’t resognate with the people” and “Rarely is the question asked: Is our children being educated correctly?” Smith is totally hilarious as Dubya, just as stupid and transparent and slimy as the real guy.
The fact that Stuart and DeLorenzo have cleverly portrayed Bush as a kind of a car salesman hawking his wares, becoming a kind of Greek chorus used to echo the network of little lies people tell one another, is a stroke of genius. It’s human nature to twist things in our communications with others in order to sleep at night — and it’s the very glue that keeps most organized religions funded and prospering. As Ayn Rand said in Altas Shrugged, most people are “secondhanders.” They live for what they want other people to think of them to be rather than to exist for themselves. And when an entire political party can get oil rich by stealing elections and spending four years blatantly lying to its constituents, the scale of the lies becomes a lot more than personal.
There are four hysterical, suitably frantic and bravely committed
performances in Homewrecker, all actors who have obviously learned to
worship the ground their director walks on — and rightly so. DeLorenzo
makes the best use of the talents of Holt I have yet witnessed and,
together with Campedelli, these two could be the Lucy and Ethel of the
millennium.
>>>>> Stephen Caffrey provides some tasty moments as
Beth’s emotional mess of a boyfriend and Smith? Well, Smith has proven
himself over and over again at this theater that simply, he can do no
wrong; he’s a treasure for ER and all Los Angeles theatergoers. There
must be special note also made of the sound design of John Zalewski, who
meets a major... er... challenge at the end of this play, and also to
whomever came up with the substance employed for a climactic visual
gross-out that soon follows Zalewski’s effort.
Above all its other worth, the fact that literally every one of Smith’s lines has been culled from George Bush’s own sneery and misspoken mouth makes it a shame Homewrecker isn’t taped to run on a continuous loop on national television right up to the November election.
A Curtain Up Los Angeles Review
Homewrecker
By Laura Hitchcock
In Kelly Stuart's hilariously sly play, Homewrecker, having its world
premiere at The Evidence Room, girlfriends Beth (Lauren Campedelli) and Cindy
(Shannon Holt) rendez-vous in an airport lounge, en route to meeting the married
men they expect to detach from their wives and attach to themselves. Beth, a
svelte sophisticate in a dark pantsuit with a curtain of black hair swinging to
her waist is smitten by a poetic English magician who knows how a girl wants to
define soulmate: "The first time I saw you it was like looking at
myself." Cindy, a big-hair blonde who gives new meaning to the term
"ditzy", is besotted by a Texan who's going to build her a house.
We don't meet Cindy's boyfriend but we see a lot of James (Stephen Caffrey) ,a
dishy longish-haired chap whose shirt is exquisitely unbuttoned to the waist.
Beth is sorry he can't have total sex with her but then he's so sensitive,
infuriatingly so. He's considerate not only of his present wife but of such old
girlfriends as Lucinda. "She's been a good friend to me," he sighs
and, then with repulsively hang-dog honesty, "but I haven't been such a
good friend to her." When he graciously admits "I'm fucked," Beth
mutters "I wish I were!" Beth can't seem to take a leaf from Cindy's
book according to which "Adultery should be fun, or else why do it.
"
There's a fourth and surprising cast member. He's none other than George W.Bush
(Don Oscar Smith). He nods in from time with remarks like " Unless we get
the full facts, I think it's going to be hard to decide to make a
decision." W. doesn't interact with the other characters but sobs and
wretched voices can be heard in the background of his innocuous monologues.
The playwriting structure serves to contrast the ineffectiveness of the
administration to listen to or affect people where they live. This could be true
of many administrations but the one chosen makes its points with devastating
perspicacity.
Beth and Cindy may get the full facts but they don't want them. How many times
have they heard, "I'm gonna leave her but give me time?" It takes a
really in-your-face fact to make the truth sink in. That image is so repulsive I
hesitate to go into specifics. Let's just say it goes beyond finding your
soulmate in bed with your best friend but has to do with taking the full fact
and living out your suppressed dream of what you'd do with it.
Director Bart DeLorenzo upholds The Evidence Room's high standards with an
expert blend of outrageousness and reality. Don Oscar Smith nails Dubya's
accent, innocuousness and suppressed rage. Stephen Caffrey is dishy and
infuriating as the magician James. Campedelli and Holt complement each other
beautifully. Holt's Cindy is the baby-doll blonde who knows what it takes to
trap a Texan. Campedelli's Beth is a serious beauty who wants so much to align
with her soulmate that she's devastated when the only woman he can respond to is
an airhead. Alain Jourdenais's simple effective lighting/set design easily takes
us all over the place. Ann Closs-Farley's costume designs accentuate the
characters wordlessly.
HOMEWRECKER
Playwright: Kelly Stuart
Director: Bart DeLorenzo
Cast: Lauren Campedelli (Beth), Shannon Holt (Cindy), Stephen Caffrey(James),
Don Oscar Smith (George W. Bush)
Set & Lighting Design: Alain Jourdenais
Costume Design: Ann Closs-Farley
Sound Design: John Zalewski
Running Time: 110 Minutes, no intermission
Running Dates: August 14-September 4, 2004
The Evidence Room, 2220 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles,
Ph: (213)381-7118
Reviewed by Laura Hitchcock on August 14.
BackStage West
Southern CA
August 18, 2004
Homewrecker
Reviewed By Terry Morgan
"Caffrey is superbly amusing as the randy James, his boundless selfishness hidden
behind a wall of charming and petulant lies."
Hollywood Reporter
Aug. 27, 2004
Homewrecker
By Ed Kaufman
"Stephen Caffrey is first-rate as the disheveled and
dissolute magician James, a likable sort of English sexual predator, while Don
Oscar Smith is a hoot as Bush.
Homewrecker
Presented by the Evidence Room
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Geary Theater, January 8–February 8
Stephen Caffrey starred in 'A Dolls House'.
Stephen
Caffrey (Torvald) undresses Rene Augesen (Nora) with more than
his eyes.
Director
Carey Perloff gives Stephen Caffrey some advice about René
Augesen's bodice
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More of Stephen Caffrey in A Doll's House
taken on 08/01/04
*****
A.C.T. Premieres New Translation by Paul Walsh
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At the Geary Theater from January 8 to February 8, 2004.SAN
FRANCISCO, American Conservatory Theater presented Henrik Ibsen’s 1879
masterpiece A Doll’s House, in a new translation from the
Norwegian by A.C.T. dramaturg Paul Walsh, .The
Press night was Wednesday, January 14. A Doll’s House, featured A.C.T.
Associate Artist and core acting company member René Augesen, and directed by
A.C.T. Artistic Director Carey Perloff, marks the company’s first presentation
of an Ibsen work in 20 years. A.C.T.’s
presentation of A Doll’s House was made possible in part by Executive
Producers Jean and James E. Douglas, Jr., and Alan and Ruth Stein.
A powerful cry for individual conscience in a world of duplicity and betrayal, A Doll’s House features in its heroine Nora Helmer one of the richest and most complex female characters in all theater. Nora has everything a woman of her era could possibly want—a doting husband, two bright children, and a promising future. But living like a toy in a dollhouse is not every woman’s chosen existence. When Nora discovers a side of her husband and her marriage that horrifies her, she must make a choice: to suffocate inside the constrictions of her domestic role, or to become a woman in control of her own destiny. Still startlingly relevant more than 100 years after its debut, Ibsen’s groundbreaking drama offers no easy conclusions or solutions. It is easy to see why A Doll’s House has grown in stature (and controversy), and why the play serves as both a harbinger and symbol of the issues confronting modern women. As New York Times writer Ron Jenkins recently wrote of a current New York production of A Doll’s House, “When Nora walked out of her husband Torvald’s house to begin a life of independence, her slamming of the door could be seen as the opening salvo in a battle over women’s rights that continues today.”
A.C.T. Associate Artist and core acting company member Gregory Wallace will portray the scheming blackmailer Krogstad; James Carpenter will play the family advisor Dr. Rank; and Joan Harris-Gelb will be featured as Nora’s childhood friend Kristine. Rounding out the cast are Joy Carlin as the maid. Real-life brother and sister Griffin and Louise Wurzelbacher alternate with Austin Greene and Tobi Moore as Nora and Torvald’s children. The cast as Torvald Helmer, Nora’s husband, was Stephen Caffrey.
By:
Henrik Ibsen
Adapted from the Norwegian by:
Paul Walsh
Director:
Carey Perloff
Music:
Karl Lundeberg
Choreographer:
Val Caniparoli
Designers:
Annie Smart (sets), Sandra Woodall
(costumes), David Finn (lights), Garth Hemphill (sound)
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Many thanks to Scott
Walton from American Conservatory Theater for all of the
above information. Copyright © 2003 American Conservatory
Theater.
All rights reserved.
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Stephen Caffrey
I received a letter from Stephen on 13th August 2001.
Here is an extract from that letter :
"...thanks you so much for your letter and kind words.
"Tour" was a wonderful and informative time in my life and I
am pleased to see that it still entertains so many. It was my privilege to work with the
men and women who made the show........"
...Again my thanks
Sincerely
Stephen Caffrey
STEPHEN CAFFREY
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