The Secret in the Wings

Theatre Lunatico presents The Secret in the Wings

Written by Mary Zimmerman
Directed by Michael Barr

Descend down to La Val’s Subterranean Theater and delve into a vivid story woven from several lesser-known European fairy tales that reflect the dark and dangerous undercurrents of childhood and all of its enchantment. In Mary Zimmerman’s The Secret in the Wings, a child is left with a frightening ogre, a basement becomes an enchanted kingdom, and one strange story gives way to the next in a kaleidoscopic unfolding of fairy tale as nightmare, memory, and theatrical spell. Embracing Lunatico’s physical, ensemble-driven style, director Michael Barr, creates a grimy, beautiful, and unsettling dreamscape that emerges from the shadowy corners of La Val’s Subterranean Theater. Underneath the macabre humor and lingering images lies the haunting feeling of childhood danger–the things we feared before we had words for them, and the stories that stayed with us. This Halloween season, join Lunatico in the basement for a night of fairy-tale lunacy…if you dare.

The ensemble cast includes Liam Blaney, Eileen Fisher, Jennifer Greene, Sarah Eli Hampton, Christian Jimenez, Shawn Oda, Erin Perry, Lauri Smith, and Umut Yalcinkaya

Presented by special special arrangement with Samuel French

Photos above by Theatre Lunatico