This barbed and brassy tragicomedy provides a peek into the life of cake enthusiast and infamous representative of the 1% featuring Brooke Bloom as Marie. From the mind of David Adjmi, playwright of last year’s Off-Broadway phenomenon, Elective Affinities, A.R.T. presents this world premiere in a co-production with Yale Repertory Theatre.
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THIS PRODUCTION CONTAINS:
Strobe-like light effects,
strong language, & LOUD SOUND EFFECTS
Recommended Grades 6 and up.
Notable dates
THIS PRODUCTION CONTAINS:
Strobe-like light effects,
strong language, & LOUD SOUND EFFECTS
Recommended Grades 6 and up.
ASL Dates:
September 23rd, 2:00PM
September 25th, 7:30PM
Audio Described Dates:
September 26, 7:30PM*
September 29, 2:00PM*
*Touch tour 1 hour prior
Discussions
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Joseph/Mr. Sauce
Fred Arsenault

Joseph/Mr. Sauce
Fred Arsenault
A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway: The Royal Family, MTC; Born Yesterday. Off-Broadway: Henry V, The Guthrie Theater/The Acting Company; Blue Man Group. Regional/International: The Spy, The Guthrie Theater; The Book Club Play, Arena Stage; Travesties, McCarter Theatre; Twelfth Night, She Stoops to Conquer, Measure for Measure, The American Shakespeare Center; Billy Bishop Goes to War, Virginia Stage; The Blackamoor Angel, Bard Summer Scape; Playboy of the Western World, The Hangar Theatre; Pericles, The Continuum Company in Florence, Italy. Awarded the Baryshnikov Fellowship. Film/TV: Shadows & Lies, “The Good Wife,” “Person of Interest,” “Law & Order: SVU.” Training: MFA from the NYU/Graduate Acting Program.

Marie Antoinette
Brooke Bloom

Marie Antoinette
Brooke Bloom
A.R.T.: Debut. Theater: Becky Shaw (Barrymore Award for title role), The Wilma Theater, Philadelphia; Hamlet (Ophelia), South Coast Repertory Theatre; Lungs, Barrington Stage Theater; A Feminine Ending, Portland Center Stage and SCR; Completeness, SCR; Ojai Playwrights Conference; NYSF. Film: He’s Just Not That Into You, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Ceremony, Gabi on the Roof in July. TV: Recent pilots for NBC and FOX along with “The Good Wife,” and a recurring role in “CSI: Miami.” Member of the Antaeus Company, Los Angeles, CA.

Yolande de Polignac/Mrs. Sauce
Hannah Cabell

Yolande de Polignac/Mrs. Sauce
Hannah Cabell
A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway: A Man for All Seasons, Roundabout. Off-Broadway: 3C, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater; Compulsion, The Public Theater; Zero Hour, Mark Smith, 13P; Pumpgirl, Manhattan Theatre Club; Jane Eyre, The Acting Company; Millicent Scowlworthy, SPF; Gentleman Caller, Clubbed Thumb; Things I Found on Craigslist, Theater for a New City. Regional/International: As You Like It, Continuum Company, Florence; Compulsion (world premiere, BACCA nomination), Yale Repertory Theatre and Berkeley Repertory Theatre; Sarah Ruhl’s adaptation of Three Sisters, Cincinnati Playhouse; Lewis Black’s Slight Hitch, NY Stage and Film; world premiere of Sarah Ruhl’s In the Next Room, or the vibrator play (BACCA nomination), Berkeley Rep; Sedition, Mary’s Wedding, Westport Country Playhouse. TV/Interactive: “Law & Order: CI,” Homefront, Grand Theft Auto. MFA, NYU/Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Acting. Recent recipient of the Annenberg Fellowship for the Arts.

The Dauphin
Andrew Cekala

The Dauphin
Andrew Cekala
A.R.T.: Pippin (Theo), Marie Antoinette (Dauphin, I.R.N.E. Award). Broadway: Pippin (Theo). Regional: All My Sons (Bert), Huntington Theatre Company; The Life of Galileo (Andrea Sarti), Underground Railway Theatre; A Christmas Story (Ralphie, I.R.N.E. Nomination), New Repertory Theatre; Ragtime (Edgar), Berklee College of Music; The Full Monty (Nathan), Turtle Lane Playhouse; Oliver (Oliver), Wellesley Players. He also has performed in numerous Watertown Children’s Theatre productions and with Revels.

Sheep
David Greenspan

Sheep
David Greenspan
A.R.T.: Debut. Melancholy Play, Orlando (dir. Rebecca Taichman), The Metal Children, Cornbury, Beebo Brinker Chronicles, Some Men and Faust (Obie), The Boys in the Band (Obie) and his own plays, Dead Mother at the Public, She Stoops to Comedy (Obie) and Go Back to Where You Are at Playwrights Horizons, The Argument (Obie) with Target Margin, The Myopia with The Foundry and with Stephin Merritt Coraline at MCC. He performed a solo rendition of Barry Conner’s 1925 play The Patsy with Transport Group and Gerturde Stein’s lecture Plays with The Foundry. Guggenheim, Alpert Award and an Obie for Sustained Achievement.

Royalist
Vin Knight

Royalist
Vin Knight
A.R.T.: Gatz. Member of Elevator Repair Service and has appeared in the U.S. and internationally in its productions of Gatz, The Select (The Sun Also Rises), The Sound and the Fury, and No Great Society. Other New York credits: The Temperamentals (Barrow Group); over two dozen productions with the adobe theater company and performances at Clubbed Thumb, Andhow!, Soho Rep, HERE, New Georges, and Theatreworks/USA. TV/Film credits: Louie, Robot Stories, Dumped!, and Love God. He is a graduate of Yale University.

Marie’s Coterie
Jo Lampert

Marie’s Coterie
Jo Lampert
A.R.T.: Prometheus Bound. New York: Murder Ballad (workshop), Manhattan Theatre Club; Fun Home (workshop), The Public Theater, The Last Goodbye (Mercutio), Joe’s Pub, The Wild Project; Dance, Dance Revolution (dir. Alex Timbers), Ohio Theatre; The Daughters (Aphrodite), Joe’s Pub; Hamlet (Composer, Player), Galapagos Art Space. Regional: The Last Goodbye, Williamstown Theater Festival; Raindogs (dir. Andrew MacBean), Bay Street Theater; The Daughters (dir. Mark Brokaw), Yale Institute for Music Theatre. TV/ Film: Terry Richardson’s Last Hours (dir. Charlotte Robert); Declare Independence (Bjork music video /dir. Michel Gondry). BFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts (Playwrights Horizons Theater School/ Experimental Theater Workshop).

Therese de Lamballe
Polly Lee

Therese de Lamballe
Polly Lee
A.R.T.: Debut. New York: Nightlands, New Georges; How I Fell In Love, Abingdon Theatre; Roadkill Confidential, One Thing I Like to Say Is, Demon Baby, Clubbed Thumb; Lenin’s Embalmers, Close Ties, Ensemble Studio Theatre; Graceland, LCT3; Slag Heap, Cherry Lane Theatre; Abigail’s Party (u/s performed), The New Group; Water, HERE Arts Center. Regional: La Jolla Playhouse, Humana Festival, Passage Theatre, O’Neill Playwrights Conference, Gloucester Stage Co., McCarter Theatre, Wilma Theater, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Studio Arena and more. Film: Day Zero, First Look International. Miss Lee has narrated many audiobooks and is a member of EST, Rising Phoenix Rep., AEA, and an affiliated artist of Clubbed Thumb. She is a recipient of New Dramatists’ Charles Bowden Award.

Louis
Steven Rattazzi

Louis
Steven Rattazzi
A.R.T.: Debut. New York: David Adjmi’s Stunning, Lincoln Center’s LCT3; Galileo (with F. Murray Abraham), The Tempest (with Mandy Patinkin), Age of Iron (dir. Brian Kulick), Therese Raquin (dir. David Esbjornson), Classic Stage Company; The Tempest, Dinner Party (dir. David Herskovits), Target Margin; Spy Garbo, New Islands Archipelago (dir. Paul Zimet), 3LD; Walk Across America for Mother Earth (Taylor Mac), La Mama; Henry V (with Liev Schrieber, New York Shakespeare Festival; Painted Snake on a Painted Chair (OBIE), Talking Band; McGurk, Elevator Repair Service; The Fourth Sister (dir. Lisa Peterson), Vineyard Theatre; Samuel’s Major Problems (Richard Foreman), Ontological Theater at St. Mark’s. Regional: The Lovesong of J. Robert Oppenheimer (dir. Mark Wing-Davey), Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park; Really Rosie (Maurice Sendak). TV: “The Venture Brothers” (Dr. Orpheus).

Axel Fersen
Jake Silbermann

Axel Fersen
Jake Silbermann
A.R.T.: Debut. Off-Broadway credits: David Adjmi’s 3C, The Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre; Dracula (alongside George Hearn), The Little Shubert Theatre. Regional theater credits: Phaedra Backwards (world premiere), McCarter Theatre; Derby Day (world premiere), Camisade Theatre Company. Television: “As the World Turns” (created the role of Noah Mayer), CBS; “The Good Wife,” “Gossip Girl,” “Guiding Light.” Writer and co-producer of the award-winning short film “Stuffer.” Native New Yorker, graduate of Syracuse University.
Marie’s Coterie
Teale Sperling
Marie’s Coterie
Teale Sperling
A.R.T.: Debut. New York: Radio City Christmas Spectacular, Radio City Music Hall; URANUS, Superhero Clubhouse at Dixon Place; TheBCam/Macbeth, Inertia Productions. TV/Film: Elf Man, “Sesame Street,” “My Gimpy Life.” Writer/Producer: The Congo Project, online celebrity interviews for Angelika Film Center NYC, and the upcoming short film Small World. Graduate of Rutgers University BFA acting program where she had the opportunity to study for a year at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London.

Guard
Brian Wiles

Guard
Brian Wiles
A.R.T.: Debut. Regional: Three Sisters, Yale Rep; Our Town, Camp Monster, Williamstown Theater Festival; elijah, Small Prophecies, Local Theater Company, Boulder. Television: “Home Court,” “As The World Turns.” Brian recently received his MFA in acting from the Yale School of Drama, where his credits include Iachimo in Cymbeline, Elijah in Michael Mitnick’s elijah, and Jane Heimlich in Jake Jeppson’s Miss Heimlich.
Additional staff
Tara Rubin, C.S.A.; Merri Sugarman, C.S.A.; Eric Woodall, C.S.A.; Lindsay Levine; Kaitlin Shaw; Stephanie Yankwitt, Casting
Harvard Summer Interns 2012 with support from the Office of the President and Provost and in partnership with the Office of Career Services: Madeleine Bersin, Rachel Gibian, Heather Mauldin, Civry Melvin, Anise Molina, Benjamin Moss, Ryan Smillie, Susanna Wolk