LIFE SUCKS
By Aaron Posner
The play is funny and insightful and examines a strange assortment of characters all afloat on a sea of despair, searching and thrashing about for love’s deliverance. All are in love, but with the unattainable. Beauty and mystery are sought – that special glimmer of light that one desperately wants, but cannot quite capture.
Produced by Heartland Theatre
Heartland Theatre — Normal, Illinois
Creative Team
- Director Liz Fisher
- Playwright Aaron Posner
- Stage Manager Nolan Schoenle
- Assistant Stage Manager Stephanie Nauman
- Scenic Design Chad Lowell
- Lighting & Sound Design Robert Fulton
- Costume Designers Jennifer Maloy, Vicky Snyder
- Prop Design Lynda Rettick
- Technical Director Johanna Pershing
- Production Photographer Peter Guither
Cast
- Dave Montague as Vanya
- Jacqueline Schwarzentraub as Sonia
- Andrea Wagoner as Ella
- Kathleen Kirk as Babs
- Rhys Lovell as The Professor
- Douglas Malcolm as Dr. Aster
- Joi Hoffsommer as Pickles
PRAISE FOR LIFE SUCKS
Press
Life Sucks Press
“Visiting director Liz Fisher has used a deft hand in guiding this fine ensemble of actors through material that is, at turns, profound and absurd and then funny and heartbreaking. Unrequited love sucks, but it can also be quite humorous. While the play is ultimately a comedy, Fisher and her actors navigate that fine line, just as Chekhov did, in finding the humor in tragedy.“
— John D. Poling, The Pantagraph