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Animal

By CLARE LIZZIMORE
Directed by GAYE TAYLOR UPCHURCH

Atlantic Stage 2
May 24 – July 2, 2017

Clare Lizzimore makes her Atlantic playwriting debut with this disquieting play directed by frequent Atlantic collaborator Gaye Taylor Upchurch.

Rachel has it all: marriage, house, career. So why does she suddenly have this creeping feeling? Did she leave something behind? Or is there something in the walls…? Her husband thinks she needs time; her psychiatrist suggests positive thinking. But then the visions start. A darkly comic play about the underside of domesticity, the complexity of the brain in chaos, and the thin line between sinking and survival.

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Kristin Griffith

Old Woman
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Rebecca Hall

Rachel
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Greg Keller

Stephen
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David Pegram

Dan
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Morgan Spector

Tom
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Fina Strazza

Little Girl
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Clare Lizzimore

Playwright
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Gaye Taylor Upchurch

Director
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Rachel Hauck

Scenic Designer
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Sarah J. Holden

Costume Designer
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Bradley King

Lighting Designer
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Stowe Nelson

Sound Designer
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Daniel Kluger

Original Compositions and Sound Design
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J. David Brimmer

Fight Director
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Ben Furey

Dialect Coach
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Mary Kathryn Flynt

Production Stage Manager
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Abigail Matey

Assistant Stage Manager
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