Alumni of Directors West
Member of SDC: Stage Directors & Choreographers Society
Member of SAG/AFTRA/ACTORS EQUITY
Elizabeth Elias Huffman is the Artistic Director of Chain Reaction Theatre. She is an acclaimed international actor, award winning director and playwright, highly regarded for her visionary and racially diverse productions. She teaches worldwide and offers online classes and coaching for actors in film, television and theatre.
THE MAN OF MODE
By Sir George Etheredge
Pacific Resident Theatre
PRODUCTION NOTES
George Etheredge's witty and sexy Restoration comedy was updated and adapted by Ms. Huffman to 1915 London. The Bloomsbury set, headed by the decadent Lady Ottoline Morell and her revolving stream of lovers, artists, or protegees like Lytton Strachey, Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, Virgina Woolfe were an inspiration for this production.
The adaptation by Ms. Huffman removed the subplot and changed the dowager Lady Townley and her neice Emilia into lovers whose home was the social gathering place for a variety of indulgences from opium smoking, to a meeting place for dancing, drinking, sexual hijinks, even bellydancing lessons.
Dorimant, who has slept with nearly every woman in the play, meets his match in Harriet and he risks everything in order to seduce and conquer her. With famous characters like Mrs. Loveit and Sir Fopling Flutter the play is a delight for audiences and an insight into the pleasures and pursuits of the upper classes.
CAST
Dorimant
Andrew Parks
Handy
Will Dixon
Pert
Jennifer Taub
Mrs. Loveit
*Geraldine Singer
Belinda
*Elizabeth Huffman
Harriet
Judy Waters
Lady Townley
*Amy Tolsky
Emilia
Carla Oberst
Servant
Eric Jorgensen
Medley
David Garrett
Mincing
Carolyn Palmer
Belly dancer
Ansyua Rathor
Sir Fopling Flutter
Andrew J Turner
Servant
Sara Newman
*Member of Actors Equity
PRODUCTION TEAM
Director and Adaptation
Elizabeth Huffman
Set/Lighting Design
Deena Lynn Mullin
Sound Design
Kevin Rittner
Costume Design
Elizabeth Huffman
Stage Manager
Deena Lynn Mullin