ENEMIES
A reading of a one-act play written by Neith Boyce and Hutchins Hapgood
Directed by James Rana
Starring Veronique Hurley and Mat Labotka (picture above in ELTC's The Rainmaker)
This presentation is filmed - not Zoomed - and will be uploaded to our YouTube Channel
Premiere is Thursday, March 4 at 8:00 PM and will be available anytime
through 11:59 PM on Sunday, March 7.
Free, but donations are appreciated. Click Here
ENEMIES was originally performed by the married couple and playwrights, Neith Boyce and Hutchins Hapgood, in 1916 as part of the first Provincetown Players' season in New York City, With clever dialogue, the play explores a “modern,” nontraditional, non-monogamous marriage and anticipates some of the concerns that twentieth-century feminists would continue to raise about the institution of marriage.
BIOS
Veronique Hurley (She) was in ELTC's The Rainmaker, Sherlock Holmes Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, Silent Sky and Biography. Off Broadway Theatre Credits include: The Tempest, As You Like it, Twelfth Night, Hunting and Gathering (The Glass Eye), Women are crazy because men are Assholes (Cherry Lane Theatre); Regional Credits Include: Noises Off, To Kill A Mockingbird, Christmas Carol, (The Hartford Stage Company) The Straight Marriage Plays, Moon Over Buffalo (Cape May Stage), Around the World in 80 Days (won best ensemble, Broadwayworld.com), Bunnicula and Charlotte's Web (Playhouse on Park). Member AEA.
Mat Labotka (He) was in ELTC's The Rainmaker and Sherlock Holmes Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle. An alum of Chicago’s Second City Conservatory and Marquette University, Mat is both classically trained and freshly comedic. New York credits include Henry in The King’s Face, Albert in Relativity of Love (Break A Leg), Victor in The Star and The Fire (90 Square Arts). Chicago credits include Metropolis Theatre, Circle Theatre, Second City, iO Chicago, Underground Lounge. Mat also performs in commercials, improv and stand-up comedy. matlabotka.com Member AEA.
James Rana East Lynne credits include: Nothing Matters, A Year in the Trenches (playwright), Dracula, Strictly Dishonorable, Huckleberry Finn (playwright), Zorro! (playwright/performer), The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (playwright), The Poe Mysteries (playwright/performer), and Sherlock Holmes’ Adventure of the Norwood Builder. Ensemble Studio Theatre, Pan Asian Rep, Luna Stage, The Shakespeare Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Co. (UK), Classical Theatre of Harlem, Actors Shakespeare Co., Contemporary American Theatre Festival, Coney Island USA, Comedysportz, Worth Street Theatre, Shakespeare & Co., Princeton Rep, Globe Neuss and Bonn Biennale (Germany). Film/Television: Swim Little Fish Swim, The War Within, A Girl Like You With A Boy Like Me, The Assassin, Law & Order: SVU, Chicago Fire, Third Watch, One Life To Live, As the World Turns, Conan O’Brien. Radio: Poe: A Celebration (wrote and narrated) for NPR. Stage Adaptations: From The Earth To The Moon (workshop: Tri-State Actors Theatre), A Christmas Carol (Actors Shakespeare Co.). In 2017, he performed in Off-Broadway's The Government Inspector starring Michael Urie. In the fall of 2017, he began rehearsals for Broadway’s The Band's Visit, and performed several times in the role of the Band's Leader, originally performed by Tony Shalhoub, and other roles. When this Tony Award winning show closed on Broadway in April 2018, he began performing in The National Tour. James received his MFA from Trinity Rep and is a member of Actors’ Equity Association, SAG-AFTRA, and the Dramatists Guild..
