The Mad Ones
Music and Book by Bree Lowdermilk and Kait Kerrigan
UNC Pauper Players, 2021
Parker is beyond excited to once again be directing with UNC’s Pauper Players and to help bring theatre to the world virtually as COVID-19 continues to keep live-event venues closed.
The Mad Ones was presented virtually on April 24th and 25th.
You can learn more about this production here!
CAST
Samantha Brown: Alison Richard
Kelly: Caitlin Flanagan
Beverly: Carrina Macaluso
Adam: Quince Mobley
CREW
Director: Parker Jenkins
Music Director: Maria Cade
Producers: Zoe Lord and Maria Cade
Stage Manager: Lauren Flors
Costume Designer: Jacob Hester
Props Designer: Emma Salyards
Production Staff Apprentice: Lucy Smithwick
Videography and Editing: Parker Jenkins, Lucy Smithwick, Zoe Lord, and Maria Cade
“The only ones for me are the mad ones — mad to talk, mad to be saved, delirious of everything all at the same time. The ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars…”
The Mad Ones follows 18-year-old Samantha Brown, sitting alone in a parked car, as she battles her yearning for the unknown and feelings bound by expectation. As memories of her senior year force themselves out of her subconscious and into the limelight, Sam faces a world bound by the influence of her reckless best friend Kelly, her helicopter mother Beverly, and her boyfriend Adam, and must find her own identity in these memory jumbles from before her life shattered to pieces. Now, Sam has to make a decision. Will she follow her mother’s dreams for her, or will she summon the courage to drive away from her friends and family into a future she can’t imagine?
