Bamberwood

1972. Sex, drugs…and ballet? With “an abundance of charm and wit” (the LA Times), Bamberwood brings theater and dance together, as actors with live ballet counterparts tell a comic story of misaligned lovers in the forest. In this Shakespeare-inspired romantic comedy, Bronx-born ballet dancer, Rudy Critoni, is fired from his company after ruffling a few too many tutus. Nobody wants a 40-year-old ballet dancer, except maybe the Army—for another tour of Vietnam.  Rudy’s wary ex-girlfriend arranges one last chance: a summer job teaching dance at the freewheeling Vermont hippie college where she is a faculty member. But the sexual revolution is going strong at Bamberwood and if Rudy succumbs, he’ll go too.

• Cast size: 10. (Five actors—three women, two men plus five dancers (three women, two men).

• Minimal set

• Running time: 2 hours

• Productions: Premiered at Met Theatre, Hollywood, CA., 1997; Staged reading, L.A. Theatre Works