Produced, created and performed by ELEVATOR REPAIR SERVICE

Text WILLIAM FAULKNER

Featuring Daphne Gaines, Rosie Goldenshon, Maggie Hoffman, Mike Iveson, Vin Knight, Aaron Landsman, Randolph Curtis Rand, Greig Sargeant, Kaneza Schaal, Pete Simpson, Susie Sokol, Lucy Taylor, Tory Vazquez, Ben Jalosa Williams

Scenic Design DAVID ZINN

Costume Design COLLEEN WERTHMANN

Lighting Design MARK BARTON

Sound Design MATT TIERNEY

Projection Design EVA VON SCHWEINITZ

Additional Costumes JACOB A. CLIMER

Movement Dramaturg KATHERINE PROFETA


Producer ARIANA SMART TRUMAN

Production Stage Manager MAURINA LIOCE

Assistant Stage Manager BRIDGET BALODIS

Production Manager DAVID NELSON

Associate Producer LINDSAY HOCKADAY


Director of Development SHANE D. HUDSON


Directed by JOHN COLLINS



The Sound and the Fury was originally presented in New York City by New York Theatre Workshop with the support of Dartmouth College. Subsequent productions, including this one, supported in part by REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater). The original ensemble included performers April Matthis, Annie McNamara and Kate Scelsa, and stage manager Sarah Hughes.

This production is generously supported by the Howard Gilman Foundation, with additional support from the Edward T. Cone Foundation.

Obie Award winning ensemble ELEVATOR REPAIR SERVICE returns to The Public, home to its sold-out productions of Gatz (2010 and 2012) and Arguendo (2013), with their widely praised staging of WILLIAM FAULKNER's modernist masterpiece, The Sound and the Fury.

With a lush sound score, high-energy choreography and a profoundly versatile ensemble, ERS delivers a verbatim staging of the novel's opening chapter ("the Benjy chapter"), Faulkner's famous experiment with memory and language.

Serving up the tragic demise of Faulkner's Compson family with humor and pathos against a backdrop of an eerily timeless Southern living room, this ensemble of theatrical daredevils, known for their fearless commitment, breathes thrilling new life into another American literary classic.

Join ERS for post-performance conversations with renowned Faulkner experts June 3rd and June 6th. Using the performance as a point of reference, panelists will discuss William Faulkner's experimental writing style and the various obsessions that led him to write the Benjy chapter of The Sound and the Fury. Discussions will be facilitated by ERS Artistic Director John Collins.

Ticket buyers to all performances in the run are welcome to attend. Panel discussions will take place in the Martinson Theater following the June 3rd 8:00pm and June 6th 2:00pm performances (approximately two and a half hours after performance begins).

WED JUNE 3rd
Following the 8:00pm performance

• Jay Watson - Howry Professor of Faulkner Studies and Professor of English, University of Mississippi
  
  
• Phil Weinstein - Professor of English Literature, Swarthmore College
  
  

SAT JUNE 6th
Following the 2:00pm performance

• Elizabeth Cornell - IT Communications Specialist, Fordham University
  
  
• Donald Kartiganer - Howry Professor of Faulkner Studies Emeritus, University of Mississippi
  
  
• John Matthews - Professor of English, Boston University