The Regulars

An Irons in the Fire Project

July 11, 2022 @ 7:00pm
Tannen’s Magic Shop

Written by Eliza Bent
Directed by Knud Adams

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Synopsis

The Regulars is set inside “Illusions,” a magic shop in Boston’s Faneuil Hall in 2002, and unfolds over a summer following the lives of Gemma, Gerry, Mike and Monika. The play uses amateur and professional magic, whoopie cushions, corny songs from the 70s and 80s, and Steven Tyler holograms to examine moments of ennui and grace in everyday life. The play also looks at the stories we tell ourselves—and the more complicated realities—about what it has meant to be an “average American” throughout our nation’s history, from its founding through to today.

Performed By

Samantha Arthur
Arjun Biju
Becca Blackwell
Emily McDonnell

Stage Manager: Hannah Sgambellone

Playwright

ELIZA BENT [she/her] is a playwright and performer. Bent’s plays are indeed, “bent”: “different from normal; strongly inclined; changed from an originally straight condition” and often feature misfits who toil in the recent past. These bentertainments include soloish works (Toilet Fire and Aloha, Aloha, or When I Was Queen), plays (Indeed, friend!, On a Clear Day I Can See to Elba, The Hotel Colors), adaptations (The Beyonce, She of the Voice), and hybrid affairs (Real Talk / Kip Talk, Pen Pals Meet). Bent’s shows have been developed, workshopped, and produced at the Abrons Arts Center, JACK, the New Ohio, the Atlantic Theatre, the Bushwick Starr, New York Theatre Workshop’s Next Door Series and the Exponential Festival. Residencies with SPACE on Ryder Farm, New Georges, Target Margin Institute Fellow, MacDowell Colony Fellow, Casa Zia Lina, Pilot Balloon and Berkeley Repertory’s Ground Floor. As an actor Bent has performed in pint-sized New York theatres, regionally in Omaha and Louisville, and toured internationally. Bent has a BA in philosophy and an MFA in playwriting from Brooklyn College. Bent is currently a full-time lecturer at Northwestern in the Radio Television and Film department.

Director

KNUD ADAMS [he/him] is an alumnus of the Drama League Next Stage Residency and Fall Directing Fellowship, the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, the Playwrights Horizons Directing Residency, and Kenyon College. He trained by assisting some of the nation's foremost theater artists, including Sarah Benson, Rachel Chavkin, Richard Foreman, Sam Gold, André Gregory, and Elizabeth LeCompte. Before moving to the U.S. at age fifteen, he grew up in France, England, and Scotland with his family of eight.

Poster Art by Sean Devare