CAST: George Ducker, Mary Foran, John Kahara, Judy Loyd, Ryan Palmer, Beata Pilch, Carolyn Shoemaker, Lyle Skosey, Nicole Wiesner, and Carl Wisniewski

LIGHTING DESIGN: Richard Norwood
SET DESIGN: Ewelina Dobiesz
SOUND DESIGN: Bob Rokos

Rainer-Werner Fassbinder was best known for his powerful, offbeat, messy films. He made forty films by the time he died of a drug overdose at thirty six. He began his work in the theatre in the late sixties, as a twenty-two year old. He acted, directed, (loosely) adapted classics by Buchner, Goethe, Sophocles, Goldoni and others, wrote several of his own plays, and in a few years emerged as the leader of a group of performers who worked with him until his death in 1982. Fassbinder's plays, like the films, are about varieties of alienation. The images Fassbinder created for the stage, and in films, linger as grotesque and brutal, possesing a strange, imporobable truth...In a way, Fassbinder made a career out of despair-selling his own and others' misery in endless variations, operating according to a system he did not create. Other works included in his controversial antitheater plays are: Bremen Freedom, Blood on the Cat's Neck, Katzelmacher, and The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant.

Krishna LeFan last worked in Los Angeles where he directed the NAACP nominated Main Liner for Theatre Royale as well as Geurilla Terrorist Theater. He also workshopped and directed TRY with a cast of high-risk continuation high school students. Some of Krishna's favorite performing experiences were for Chicago Shakespeare Theater, The Pasadena Playhouse, The Open Fist in Hollywood, CA, Steppenwolf, Trap Door, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, Berkeley Rep and Theatre Artaud where he was raised.

Beata Pilch is the Co-Founder and Artistic Director of the Trap Door Theatre.