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Adapted for the stage by Simon Moore

Performances: June 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, and 19

Directed by Alex Lucchesi   Production Manager: Amy de Marco

The Cast

Paul Sheldon – Scott Giangrande

Anne Wilkes — Juliet Bowler

About the play: Best-selling romantic fiction novelist Paul Sheldon retires each winter to the snow-covered hills of Colorado to write another work featuring his beautiful heroine, Misery Chastain. Driving whilst inebriated, he encounters severe weather and his car goes off the road. Instead of awakening in hospital he comes to in a filthy, dilapidated farmhouse, isolated from the outside world by the blizzard, occupied by the schizophrenic Annie, his “Number One Fan”. She insists she will nurse him, refusing to tell anyone of his whereabouts. His crushed legs mean he is virtually a prisoner, dependent on Annie for pain relief. When she discovers his new novel does not feature Misery, she forces him to destroy the manuscript and write another. Thus begins Paul’s descent into a living hell. Annie withholds pain relief and inflicts humiliation and degradation, forcing Paul, like Scheherazade, to write a new chapter every day simply to stay alive.

A Note About the Director…

Alex Lucchesi is making his AFD directing debut with Misery. He is a founding member and the current artistic director of Theatre To Go and has been an active member of Wakefield Repertory Theatre for over ten years. Past directing credits include: Inherit the Wind, Steel Magnolias, Agnes of God, The Diary of Anne Frank, Crimes of the Heart and Talking With…

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