Youth Educational Outreach Program:
Mamai Matinees
Co-Founder Wendy Kriss returns to staff as Mamai’s first Education Associate. She will steer the new Mamai Matinee program conceived by Co-Founder Derdriu Ring, which invites children ages 5-7 to an interactive workshop full of storytelling, movement, music and visual artwork with new friends. Children will experience a collage of art activities designed to promote self-expression, comfort and confidence in the creative process, and the development of collaboration skills.
Beginning in the 2016 season, patrons can register children ages 5-7 for this drama workshop in an adjacent location while enjoying Mamai’s Sunday 2:30pm matinee performance. One (1) adult admission is included with child registration fee.
This project is supported in part by the residents of Cuyahoga County through a public grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture.
June 12 TOP GIRLS
July 24 LADY WINDERMERE’S FAN
August 28 THE WOMAN HATER
Register here.
2016 Venue & Ticket Information
Mamai is thrilled to return downtown to The Cleveland Masonic Performing Arts Center, 3615 Euclid Avenue at E. 36th Street, with free and ample parking in an onsite gated lot, air-conditioning, and ADA-accessibility. Mamai will mount all three of its 2016 productions on the beautiful 1920s proscenium stage inside the DeMolay Room.
Top Girls
By Caryl Churchill
Directed by Jaime Bouvier
June 2-19, 2016
Scenic Design by Don McBride
Costume Design by Suzy Campbell
Lighting Design by Rob Peck
Sound Design by Carlton Guc
Properties Design by Monica Plunkett
With...
Courtney Brown
Rocky Encalada+
Lisa Langford*
Anne McEvoy
Cassandra Miller
Amy Schwabauer
Isabel Wang
* Member, Actors Equity Association
+ Equity Membership Candidate
Top Girls transgresses ancient to modern femininity in two distinct acts. Act One features an imagined restaurant table full of ladies who lunch... in a time-traveling dialogue from various centuries and cultures in womankind's history! Act Two is a springboard departure into family drama-- a personal examination of relationships between mother, daughter, sister, aunt, and friend.
Sunday, June 12 Talkback facilitated by two Shaker Heights High School International Baccalaureate English Faculty, Chris Coton and Chuck Kelly.
Lady Windermere's Fan
By Oscar Wilde
Directed Bernadette Clemens
July 14-31, 2016
Scenic Design by Don McBride
Costume Design by Suzy Campbell
Lighting Design by Rob Peck
Sound Design by Carlton Guc
Properties Design by Monica Plunkett
Oscar Wilde fans the flames of Edwardian social change with his typical adroitness. Comedy and manners offer a tongue-lashing, suspenseful assault on Victorian values. An attractive stranger invades the domestic bliss of Lady & Lord Windermere, and her past has the potential to drastically alter their future. Lord Darlington plays a hand. All bets hinge on chance, fate, accident... and a fan.
The Woman Hater - U.S. Premiere!
By Fanny Burney
Directed Christine McBurney
August 18-September 4, 2016
Scenic Design by Don McBride
Costume Design by Angelina Herin
Lighting Design by Rob Peck
Sound Design by Richard Ingraham
Properties Design by Monica Plunkett
An absurdly satirical indictment of the excesses of both men and women, this 1802 comedy remained unproduced until 2003. When Sir Roderick is jilted by Lady Smatter, he proclaims himself a woman-hater and is determined to keep his young heir away from the opposite sex. Identities are mistaken, social pretensions are deliciously exposed, and the gender constructs of wifely and daughterly duties are boldly upended — bringing forth a new kind of heroine.
You can sponsor, join our mailing list or purchase tickets online!
TICKETS: www.mamaitheatreco.org
or 440.394.8353
Adults: $22
Seniors (65 & older): $20
Students (25 & under): $15
Mamai Theatre Company was co-founded in 2010 by Bernadette Clemens, Wendy Kriss, Christine McBurney, and Derdriu Ring. Mamai (pronounced Mah' may) is the Gaelic word for “mother.” Four working mothers, theatre artists, colleagues, and friends arrived at a place where it was time to create opportunities for themselves and their community. “Don’t wait to create” became the inspiration for Mamai Theatre Company.
Our mission is to create intelligent, relevant classical theatre that offers an artistic home for Cleveland's theatre artists, and equal opportunity for women in the professional theatre community.
In 2013 The Plain Dealer announced, “Mamai Theatre Company...has made a howling entrance onto the city’s artistic scene” and named their inaugural production, Medea, a top-10 theatre event of the year. In 2014 LandofCleve.net added, “In only a few short years, Mamai Theatre Company has established themselves as a major player in the Cleveland theatre community."
We are a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.
mamaitheatrecocleveland@gmail.com