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creditors

CREDITORS
October 11- December 15, 2013

Written by AUGUST STRINDBERG
in a new version by DAVID GREIG
Directed by DAVID TRAINER
with 
BURT GRINSTEAD
HEATHER ANNE PRETE
JACK STEHLIN 

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ABOUT CREDITORS:
In this toxic triangle, Adolph anxiously awaits the return of his wife Tekla to their seaside resort, comforted by his world-wise advisor Gustav. But Adolf soon finds himself in the center of a scintillating exchange of suspicion and revenge, as old wounds are opened, insecurities are laid bare and former debts are paid.

A co-production of The Odyssey Theatre Ensemble and The New American Theatre
Produced by RON SOSSI & JEANNINE WISNOSKY STEHLIN 
Set Designer THOMAS A. WALSH 
Costume Designer MERRILY MURRAY-WALSH 
Lighting Designer NICHOLAS DAVIDSON 
Sound Designer RON KLIER 
Assistant Director NOAH JAMES 
Stage Manager JOSIE GRIFFIN-ROOSTH
Graphic Designer PETER SIMPSON COOK
Casting Director JULIE ALTER
Runtime
95 minutes


reviews


​"With this impressive, incisive production,
 Creditors leaves the audience deeply in its debt"

Myron Meisel, The Hollywood Reporter


 "For his part, Stehlin (Weeds), the artistic director of The New American Theatre (a new moniker for his long-established Circus Theatricals), has been such a continually substantive presence in Los Angeles theater that it has become too easy to take him for granted. Gustav's feral intellectual is an awesome creation of Strindberg's, both passionate and parodistic, icily cerebral yet with the persuasive power of a born salesman, and Stehlin revels in the full measure of this wounded monster. He even suggests the kind of satiric self-loathing that undoubtedly influenced Vladimir Nabokov in his invention of Clare Quilty in Lolita."
Myron Meisel, The Hollywood Reporter

**** PICK OF THE WEEK! **** LA Weekly
"Incisively directed by David Trainer!" 

"psychological thriller!"

"draws you in with its hypnotic spell!"

"Stehlin is phenomenal!"

"Bitterly cynical but engrossing, The Creditors is strictly for those who enjoy an intellectual argument spiked with misogyny and cyanide." 
- Pauline Adamek, LA Weekly

**** "A Wild Ride Through a Deadly Carnival Fun House! Comedic adaptation...
as appalling as it is thrilling. Brilliant!" **** 

- F. Kathleen Foley - LA Times

"This brilliantly directed production is a sweet shot of extraordinary theatre that will entertain until the very end with eloquent staging and a great script, bound nicely with the superb acting." 
Rose Desena - The Los Angeles Post 
 
 
**** Well written, well presented, and well worth your time! *** 
Cynthia Citron – Santa Monica Daily Press 

**** Director David Trainer has crafted a masterful tableau that reaches into the souls of the three protagonists 
and rips out their secret anxieties, only to fling them at each other with the deadly venom of revenge.****   

Jose Ruiz - Reviewplays 

**** 
"The new co-production by the New American Theatre and the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble is superb, a razor-sharp drama highlighted by Jack Stehlin's devilishly entertaining performance."  
 Terry Morgan - LAist   

**** 
"This brilliantly directed production is a sweet shot of extraordinary theatre that will entertain until the very end with eloquent staging and a great script, bound nicely with the superb acting."
Rose Desena - The Los Angeles Post   

**** 
"Trainer's trio carries out this dark, neo-Darwinian comedy with effortless efficiency, a polish that makes the crude psychodynamics all the more repellent." 
Tony Frankel - Stage and Cinema 

**** A spellbinding, mind teasing, highly involving evening of theater looking at "love ... obsession ... and payback." Deliciously Directed by David Trainer, and flawlessly performed by a trio of fine actors, this play is a titillating theatrical journey for the audience.
Pat Taylor - Tolucan Times

**** 
 
Well written, well presented, and well worth your time!  
 Cynthia Citron - Santa Monica Daily Press  


****  

"Director David Trainer has crafted a masterful tableau that reaches into the souls  

of the three protagonists and rips out their secret anxieties,  
only to fling them at each other with the deadly venom of revenge."   
Jose Ruiz - Reviewplays  
   
**** 
What's truly amazing, however, is that over a hundred years later, the relevance to such ideas and the search for these truths is still significant. It is still worth exploring, and this production is a wonderful example of how art can illuminate such truths. 
Patrick Hurley - LifeInLA
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**** 
OTE and New American Theatre's CREDITORS Hits the Mark in its Latest Adaptation 
Don Grigware - Broadway World

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