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Charlotte loves Jonny. And Claire. What will her parents say?

The Mystery of Love & Sex

Apr 5 – May 8, 2016
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From one of the writers of HBO’s Boardwalk Empire and Showtime’s Masters of Sex comes an unexpected love story of evolving friendship, finding your own path, and the value of family.

Complete opposites, Charlotte and Jonny have been best friends since they were children. Now, as college students on the eve of graduation, they toy around with taking their friendship romantic. Or not. Why decide? After all, neither is sure they are even attracted to the other (plus, Charlotte thinks she might be really attracted to the ultra-cool Claire). Meanwhile, Charlotte’s parents, an unlikely couple themselves, push the kids for a definition even while their own relationship founders. Gradually, secrets and truths emerge as playing grown-up turns into actually growing up.

Funny, insightful, with an intense and complex core, Bathsheba Doran’s (Nest) newest play brilliantly examines intimacy, identity and, of course, the many mysteries of love and sex.

“Perfectly wonderful… packed with humanity.” —The New York Times

Written by Bathsheba Doran
Directed by Stella Powell Jones

Performance Information

  • Running Time

    Approximately 2 hours and 20 minutes, including one 15-minute intermission.

  • Content Warnings

    Contains full male and female nudity and depictions of tobacco smoking.

Specialty Nights

Post-Show Discussion Nights

April 20 & May 3, 2016

Pride Night

April 29, 2016

Open Captioned Performances

April 26, 2016 at 7:30PM and May 1, 2016 at 2PM

Sponsors

Cast Members

Shayna Blass

Shayna Blass

Charlotte

SIGNATURE: The Mystery of Love & Sex (Charlotte), Cabaret, Haunted Hotel. DC AREA: Rep Stage: Technicolor Life; Forum Theatre: Passion Play; Arena Stage: Fiddler on the Roof; Kennedy Center TYA: Elephant & Piggie; Theater J: Yentl, Another Way Home; Studio Theatre: Tribes, Rocky Horror Picture Show; Keegan Theatre: Rabbit Hole, Cabaret, Spelling Bee, RENT; Adventure Theatre: Big Nate (world premiere); Imagination Stage: Seussical the Musical; Source Festival: Uses of Enchantment. EDUCATION: BA from American University. @ShaynaBlass www.shaynablass.com 

Xavier Scott Evans

Jonny

REGIONAL: The Shakespeare Forum: Henry V, Coriolanus (CITS Thesis). TV/FILM: Netflix: The Characters; CBS: Blue Bloods; Red, Columbia University MFA Short Films: Don’t Tell Anyone (C.U.F.F.), Mommy Heist, 12:01pm, Elle Foxx, Lea, Search Party. NEW MEDIA: GoNoodle: Nerdy By Nature. AWARDS: August Wilson Competition 1st Place ’12, 4th Place ’11 (Seattle Repertory Theatre), WA State Thespian Society Monologue Competition 1st Place. EDUCATION: Circle In The Square Theater School.

Emily Townley

Lucinda

DC AREA: Woolly Mammoth Theatre (Company Member): Totalitarians (Helen Hayes Best Lead Actress nomination), Detroit, House of Gold, Maria/Stuart, Bright New Boise, Spain, Fuddy Meers, Wonder of the World, Watbanaland; Olney Theatre Center: Bad Dog (Helen Hayes Outstanding Ensemble nomination); Studio Theatre: Between Riverside and Crazy, Laugh, Skintight, Rock n’ Roll, the Bright and Bold Design; Folger Theatre: The Gaming Table, The Tempest; Washington Stage Guild: Tryst, Pen; Everyman Theatre: Our Town; MetroStage; The Real Inspector Hound; Rep Stage: The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?; Round House Theatre: the Sisterhood. REGIONAL: Gulfshore Playhouse; The Game’s Afoot; All My Sons.

Jeff Still

Howard

BROADWAY: Therese Raquin (with Keira Knightley), Fish in the Dark (with Larry David), August: Osage County (also National Tour), Lombardi, Bronx Bombers. OFF-BROADWAY: Tribes, Our Town, Adding Machine, Orson’s Shadow. REGIONAL: Steppenwolf: Sonia Flew, The Dresser, A Clockwork Orange, Mother Courage, Wolf Lullaby, You Can’t Take it With You; Writers Theatre: The Price; Chicago Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet; Kansas City Rep: Our Town; Guthrie Theatre: Born Yesterday; La Jolla Playhouse and Mark Taper Forum: Tribes; Pittsburgh Public Theatre: Red; Williamstown Theatre Festival: Orson’s Shadow; Cardinal Stage: Amadeus. INTERNATIONAL: Gate Theatre, London: Bug (world premiere). FILM/TV: Public Enemies, The Express, The Untouchables, Law & Order, To Sir With Love II (with Sidney Poitier). EDUCATION: The Theatre School, DePaul University (MFA, 1989).

David Schmidt

Howard's Father

NEW YORK: CSC: The Homecoming, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Devils, Tempest, Measure for Measure. DC AREA: Shakespeare Theatre: Henry V, Inspector General (u/s); Kennedy Center Page to Stage: Wagner and Levi. REGIONAL: Pocono Pines Playhouse: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Night of the Iguana. EDUCATION: University of Virginia, 2000 M.ED.

Creative Team

Press Reviews

Earthy and entertaining - it's a funny show

The Washington Post

A truly memorable theatrical experience.

MD Theatre Guide

Funny and lively, wonderfully acted and well-paced

DC Metro Theater Arts

Shayna Blass… is wonderfully nuanced as Charlotte
Evans is excellent
Jeff Still crackles with spontaneity
Townley’s comic timing is as good as it gets

The Washington Post

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