PRE PARADISE, SORRY NOW

BY: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
DIRECTED BY: Michael S. Pieper

Opened October 1999

CAST: Beata Pilch, Alex Present, Myles Leevy, Kristie Hassinger, Aaron Boucher, Sondra Walters, Arch Harmon, Shannon O' Neill, Anne Gregory, John Gray, Troy Lindsey and Steve Walker
LIGHTING DESIGN: Richard Norwood
SOUND DESIGN: Bob Rokos
COSTUME DESIGN: Beata Pilch, Megan Wall
SET DESIGN: Michael Pieper
STAGE MANAGER: Matthew Lundquist/ Peter Esposito
GRAPHIC DESIGN: Brin Sherman
FIGHT CHOREOGRAPHY: Danny Robles

Pre-Paradise, Sorry Now...
Hookers, Con Artists, and Serial Killers... all on the road to Paradise

Witness the account of the Moorland Murders. Ian Brady teaches Myra Hindley that submission is joy. Together they start to create their own paradise by teaching inferior creatures that happiness is death.

Inspired by booze, the Marquis de Sade and Nazi ideology, fun-loving couple Ian Brady and Myra Hindley liked to put their sadistic philosophy into action. They murdered four adolescents and one adult during the early sixties in Britain.

The "Moors Murders" carried out by Hindley and Brady horrified Britain. They tortured children and documented their agonies on tape.

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT:

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.