Recipient of the
2012 American Theatre Wing
National Theatre Company Award

[The Now’s] dedication to theater and meaningful works runs deep.

—Kathleen Allen, The Arizona Daily Star

Rogue After Curfew
a late night show in association with The Now Theatre

The Now Theatre presents

Directed by Nic Adams

March 19 –April 4, 2009

Written in 1946, this Tennessee Williams one-act follows the musings and fantasies of Willie, a girl forced to grow up at a young age. Through a conversation with a young boy named Tom, Willie explores the bond of sisterhood, the idolization of estranged family members and the expedition of time between childhood and sexual awakening.

 

WILLIE: They all run out on me like rats from a sinking ship!

Laine Peterson as Willie and Nic Adams as Tom

 

WILLIE: I might be peculiar or something. You never can tell.

Laine Peterson as Willie

Photos by Duane Dugas

 

Press

Plays After Dark: Two new late-night theater efforts follow in the footsteps of LTW’s successful Etcetera series

Report on The Now Theatre and LNT @ The Alley by James Reel in the April 2 Tucson Weekly

One-act This Property is Condemned packs a wallop

Review of This Property is Condemned by Chuck Graham in the March 26 Tucson Citizen

A Teen’s Trial: A group of Shakespearean women gather to decide the fate of Juliet in the wonderful Immortal Longings

Reviews of This Property is Condemned and Immortal Longings by James Reel in the March 26 Tucson Weekly

Juliet doesn't want to die!

Previews of This Property is Condemned and Immortal Longings by Kathleen Allen in the March 13 Arizona Daily Star

 

The Now Theatre Online Facebook Group for The Now Theatre           Facebook Event for This Property is Condemned           The Now Theatre Blog at Blogspot.com

 

WILLIE:
You’re the only star
In my blue hea-ven
And you’re shining
Just for me!

Nic Adams as Tom and Laine Peterson as Willie

Photo by Duane Dugas

 

 

Cast
Willie		Laine Peterson
Tom		Nic Adams

 

Cast Biographies

	Laine Peterson (Willie) was last seen earlier this season as the Stepdaughter in Six Characters in Search of an Author with The Rogue Theatre. Previous credits include The Eight: Reindeer Monologues, Cigarettes and Chocolate, Tartuffe, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Romeo & Juliet, The Philadelphia Story, and Henry IV, Parts I & II. She was also an understudy for Arizona Theatre Company’s Love, Janis and performed in One Naked Woman and a Fully-Clothed Man at the UA. Laine is a member of the improv group The Charles Darwin Experience. Thank you to all of her loved ones!
Nic Adams (Director, Tom) has appeared in The Rogue Theatre’s productions of Six Characters in Search of an Author and, most recently, Orlando. A theatre student at the University of Arizona, previous credits include Titus Andronicus (Martius), Urinetown, Candide, Cigarettes & Chocolate, and The Zoo Story. Nic would like to thank his tirelessly supportive family and all his cohorts at The Now.

 

WILLIE: ...she had that compound fracture of the skull. I think that most of her brains spilled out.
She’s been acting silly ever since. Saying an’ doing the most outrageous things.

Laine Peterson as Willie

Photo by Duane Dugas

 

Production Staff
Light Board		Ashley Simon
Box Office		John Shartzer
Designers
Production Design		Nic Adams
Lighting Design		Clint Bryson

 

TOM: I thought it was going to be windy so I could fly my kite.

Nic Adams as Tom

Photo by Duane Dugas

 

	Clint Bryson (Lighting Designer) has designed lights for The Now Theatre’s productions of Cigarettes and Chocolate and The Zoo Story. Other lighting design credits include most Rogue Theatre productions, As Bees in Honey Drown and Golf Game for Borderlands, Woman in Black for Beowulf Alley, and The Seagull for Tucson Art Theatre. Clint is currently the Shop Foreman, Production Technical Director and Marketing Director for Catalina Foothills Theatre Department where he designs and coordinates the construction of all scenery. He is also a member of Rhino Staging Services, and a regular participant in Arizona Theatre Company’s Summer on Stage program where he designs and builds the scenery as well as teaches production classes.
Ashley Simon (Light Board Operator) was the Assistant to the Stage Manager on Arizona Theatre Company’s A Raisin in the Sun, Hair and The Lady with All the Answers. She stage managed The Mousetrap, Same Time Next Year and Forever Plaid this past summer at The Theater Barn in the Berkshires. At Florida Stage, she was Assistant to the Stage Manager for the world premieres of Deborah Zoe Laufer’s End Days, Roger Heddon’s The Count and Jessica Goldberg’s Ward 57. Ms. Simon is a graduate of the BFA Theatre program at Sam Houston State University.

 

WILLIE: Y’ hear that? That's the Cannonball Express.

Laine Peterson as Willie and Nic Adams as Tom

Photo by Duane Dugas

 

Performance Schedule for This Property Is Condemned

Location: Zuzi’s Dance Theater, Historic Y, 738 N. 5th Avenue at University  See map

Thursday March 19, 2009, 10:30 pm
Friday March 20, 2009, 10:30 pm
Saturday March 21, 2009, 10:30 pm

Thursday March 26, 2009, 10:30 pm
Friday March 27, 2009, 10:30 pm
Saturday March 28, 2009, 10:30 pm
Sunday March 29, 2009, 5:00 pm  MATINEE

Thursday April 2, 2009, 10:30 pm
Friday April 3, 2009, 10:30 pm
Saturday April 4, 2009, 10:30 pm