Guthrie Theater
Presents a
Full Circle Theater Company
Production of
May 4 - 20, 2018
At Guthrie Theater
Dowling Studio
“This is a love story. It’s about mature love, marriage, romantic love, and familial love,” says director James Williams. Set in the late 1940s against the backdrop of post-WWII recovery in America, this four- character, two-act play takes place in the segregated black neighborhood of Central Cleveland, where characters Mamie and Raymond Warren reside. Mamie desperately needs household help after her husband has a serious accident. On the recommendation of a friend, Mamie hires a down-on-her-luck woman named Bessie, whose arrival brings surprises and new challenges. In this setting, Under this Roof explores themes of mature love, family, disability, and race on an ever-shifting axis, with often-unexpected comic, painful, and heartfelt results.
Dramaturg: Stephanie Lein Walseth
Disability Consultant: MacGregor Arney
Cast: Yolande Bruce, Brian A. Grandison, Laura Esping, and Nathan R. Stenberg
Designers: Katharine Horowitz, sound; Tom Barrett, lighting; Michael Burden, set and props; Amber Brown, costumes
Full Circle Theater Company
Founded in 2014 to produce heartfelt, groundbreaking theater that artfully addresses issues of diversity and social justice for 21st century audiences. Debut production: Theater: A Sacred Passage, produced in 2015 - 16 at Dreamland Arts and toured to various venues in Saint Paul.
Full Circle Board of Directors:
Gregory Anderson, Michael Katz, Ross Peterson, Christina Ogata, Moses Kariuki Ehlers, Martha J. Johnson, Gordon Nakagawa, Martha B. Johnson, Rick Shiomi
General Manager:
Quinci Bachman
Full Circle Theater Company is a fiscal year 2018 recipient of a Cultural Community Partnership grant from Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature; and by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
“This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.”