September 2024 at RHP
Our first production of the new Season opens this Friday. Get your tickets now.
Ramona Hillside Players in Hemet, CA presents “Lost (and Found) in IKEA” by Gary Ray Stapp.
September 13th, 2024 @ 7:30pm
September 15th, 2024 @ 2:30pm
September 20th, 2024 @ 7:30pm
September 21st, 2024 @ 2:30pm
September 22nd, 2024 @ 2:30pm
Opening Night Admission is $15.00 per seat.
Single Admission (everyone) is $20.00 per seat.
Group Discount available for 10 or more seats.
Purchase Online Tickets: https://ramonahillsideplayers.org/tickets
Make Phone Reservations: (951) 658-5300
Can two strangers find love at IKEA? Possibly—with a playful ghost involved. Winifred and Lex are both lonely hearts, but neither of them is convinced that true love can be found while shopping. Winifred’s brother and Lex’s deceased wife think differently and have decided to play cupid for their reluctant loved ones, who unexpectedly find themselves wrestling with love-at-first-sight. Unfortunately, the budding romance is distracted by mayhem of all sorts when a homeless man and a shopaholic ex-con fight over an alarm clock, while a snarky, bitter married couple play a convoluted game of hide-and-seek that eventually leads to several of them literally losing their shirts. Luckily, the store security guard has words of wisdom for all, but even his hands are full when a protest organizer launches into the National Anthem. But when push comes to shove, all is well that ends well when those who are lost in IKEA find love where they least expected it.
CAST:
Justin Ryan as Lex
Julie Lynch as Winifred
Gary Tallaksen as DH
Sherrie Crevoiser as DW
Kamryn Putney as Mags
David Miller as Steffan
Joey Mercado as Mrs. Peale
Chuck Abernathy as OZ
Robert White as Isaiah
Lisa Fulton as Dot
CREW:
Director – Betty Neal
Stage Manager – Kimberly Restaneo
27402 Ramona Bowl Road
Hemet, CA 92544
This month we also have auditions for our next production. Please come out if you want to audition for a part or be part of the backstage crew.
Ramona Hillside Players in Hemet, CA will hold open auditions for “Proof”.
Written by David Auburn
Directed by Rossi C. Smith
Auditions will be held on September 16th & 17th 2024. You do not need to attend both days.
Auditions are from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM. Doors open at 6:45. You are welcome to arrive any time between then and 8:30. You will not be required to stay the entire time.
Callbacks will be on the 18th. Callbacks are not required, but GREATLY recommended.
The audition will consist of a combination of a cold reading and a creative, emotional improv.
Please come prepared with a resume, headshot, pen/pencil, and a list of conflicts.
Performance dates are November 15th, 16th, 17th, 22nd, 23rd, & 24th, 2024 @ RHP in Hemet.
PLOT:
Winner of the 2001 Tony Award® for Best Play and Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
THE STORY: On the eve of her twenty-fifth birthday, Catherine, a troubled young woman, has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father, a famous mathematician. Now, following his death, she must deal with her own volatile emotions; the arrival of her estranged sister, Claire; and the attentions of Hal, a former student of her father’s who hopes to find valuable work in the 103 notebooks that her father left behind. Over the long weekend that follows, a burgeoning romance and the discovery of a mysterious notebook draw Catherine into the most difficult problem of all: How much of her father’s madness—or genius—will she inherit?
CAST OF CHARACTERS:
*** All Ages are Relative ***
Catherine – A young woman, 25 years old, who inherited much of her father’s mathematical genius and, she fears, his “instability” as well; she gave up her life and schooling to take care of her father until his recent death.
Claire – Catherine’s older sister, a practical and business-minded woman who has been comfortably successful in her work and relationships. She left Robert and Catherine behind, distancing herself from the run-down family home of her youth. She left the family to make a new life for herself in New York City.
Robert – A recently deceased mathematician praised for his groundbreaking work in his youth, but whose later years were plagued by delusional mental illness; he is seen in Catherine’s imagination and in flashbacks.
Harold (Hal) Dobbs – One of Robert’s last Ph.D. students during the one year his idol and mentor’s illness went into remission, at least enabling Robert to teach, if not continue his own creative mathematical work.