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Trap

By Stephen Gregg

October 18, 19, 25, 26 @ 7PM

October 20, 27 @ 2PM

MENACHAP, CALIFORNIA. An incomprehensible event: every person in the audience of a high school play falls unconscious—every person but one. Using interviews with witnesses, loved ones, first responders, and the investigators pursuing the case, a theater ensemble brings the story of the strange event to life, documentary-style. But as the strands weave together into an increasingly dangerous web, it becomes clear that this phenomenon might not be entirely in the past. Unnerving, exhilarating, and wildly inventive, you've never walked into anything quite like Trap.

Section One: A Picture of Infinity

Section Two: The Oak Box

Section Three: What Held Them

Section Four: Marion Jay

Section Five: Kenosha

Section Six: Search

Section Seven: Trap

Cast

911 Operator ……………………….……………………Allie George

Ensemble 1, Haunted California………………..Anne Garvey

Interviewer, Time Magazine, Spanish Broadcaster…………………..….........................................Anya Ng

Angela……………………………………………Ariana Ottenwalter

Marion Jay…..………………………………….……….……Ash Millar

Heche…………………………………………..……Athena Murphey

Cell Phone Girl…………………….….…….…………Allie Hulburt

Tamblyn Grey, Jonathan Mollusk..…Beckett Hanselman

Norma Pike………………………………..………Catherine Carrie

Ensemble 3, Deputy …………..…….…………Emma Withrow

Kenosha, Mollusk’s Council ………….……Gillian Cubbage

Brand Hillock, Court Transcript, American Broadcaster…….….........................................Gigi Oestreicher

Ensemble 2, Judge Matalucci..………....Hyacinth Mailhot

Ensemble 4, Brian Gurbaxani …………………Josh Gleason

Maura Aoki, Queta Muguruza…………..Mirabel Barnhart

Issa Fuente…………………………………………..…Raina Morshed

Ephrain Salas…………………………………………Roman Mariano

Clifton…………………..…………………………….…Royce Hampton

Candelaria ………………………………………………Ruby Schwerin

LA Times, Real Kenosha…..…………Satya Jackson Dunning

Fallen Boy…………………………………………………..Miller Traum

Danalynn Morse……………………………………Simone Caceres

Kendra Silberling…………………………………Summer Dabbert

Avishay Lenser, Donovan ..…………………...Dominic Corbett

Translator……………………………………...Sophia Dekhitarenko

Gander Main, SGT Brock …………………………Aiden Webber

Menachap Herald, Principle Forbush…………Isaac Enderly

British Broadcaster, Deputy 2 ……………..…Poppy Nagorny

Celia Brown, Ensemble 5 …………………...…Marian Fabionar

Melissa Tengue..………………………….……………..Shriya Sriram

Rickenoch Baynor …………………..…………Mattias Waggoner

Design Staff

Director………………………………………………...........Chad Fisk

Technical Director………………………..........Eric Richardson

Producer………………………………...........Shenandoah Kehoe

Set Designer……………………………………….............Chad Fisk

Costume Designer ………………………….............Tracy Traum

Sound Designer …………………Chad Fisk & Steven Haffly

Lighting Designer……………………………………Kyle Blewett

Program Design……Ariana Ottenwalter & Nico Novick

Poster Design……………………………………..……Nico Novick

Publicity Director………….………..Satya Jackson Dunning

Music Composer…………………………….……Isaiah Hastings

Set Construction

As a part of the stagecraft class:

Louisa Aue, Audrey Beauchamp, Izabella Braun, Wren Chew, Crowe Connolly, Cooper Fry, Olivia Gomez, Anderson Hwu, Sophia Johnson, Tegwyn Lea, Delaney Leyva-Escarsega, Cooper Marine, Aiko Nagel, Pauline Nagorny, Estefania Orozco, Hayden Perkins, Rowan Stango, Emily Vaquerano, Eros Wohlgemuth

Production Staff

Stage Manager …………………………………Coral Wittenburg

Assistant Stage Manager…………Natalya Shaffer-Espinal

Sound Operator………………Steven Haffley & Nico Novick

Costume Assistant………….Miller Traum & Ailani Gentles

Light Board Operator……….Julia Herman & Kyle Blewett

Front of House Manager…………………...Jasarae DeRemer

Headshots…….………….............................Auden Cunningham

Heche (Athena Murphey) and Angela (Ariana Ottenwalter)

Director's Note

Stephen Gregg’s Trap has been a pleasure to explore with a talented and spirited cast and crew. Full of unique challenges, the play stitches together a wide range of interviews, recollections, and scenes, making it an exercise in world building. The play investigates the nature of fear and the human tendency to let our minds’ musings create sinister intentions traceable to the vestigial fears necessary for our species’ early survival. As Rickenoch Baynor says in the play, “When we emerged from the jungle, our capacity for worry didn’t go away; it just repurposed itself. So now instead of worrying about being eaten by a tiger, we worry about tomorrow’s math test.”

When we can intellectually understand the sometimes irrational source of our fears, we can convince ourselves that it is silly to let our fears get the best of us. And we can breathe easier. But as Trap explores, sometimes maybe we should be scared of the dark…

We hope you enjoy watching Trap just as much as we enjoyed creating it!

- Chad Fisk

Special Thanks

DHS Theater would like to extend its eternal gratitude to Gwyneth Bruch for being such a supportive and integral member of the DHS Theater community.

Thank you to our incredible theatre program director Shenandoah Kehoe for her endless time and effort and love put into this show and the theatre department at large. What would we do without you?

Special thanks to Niels Larsen for all his support of the stagecraft class, set construction expertise, and work on the build!

Special thanks to Jason Long for sharing his experience directing "Trap" in addition to providing us sound cues, moral support, and helpful advice.

Special thanks to Kelly Jordan for the amazing publicity photos.

Special thanks to the Davis Fire Department for the use of a uniform.

Thank you to Tessa Fisk, Piper Donald, Ailani Gentles and Miller Traum for supporting our costume designer.

All of the thanks in the world to Eric Richardson, for always being around whenever we had a question about anything.

And so many thanks to our ASM Natalya Shaffer-Espinal for all the time put into this show and continued support through her time here.

Theater Board 2024-25

Marian Fabionar

Dominic Corbett

Allie Hulbert

Ailani Gentles