Are certain acts just unforgivable?
Bryony Lavery's 2004 Tony Award-nominated play follows three people from very different worlds whose lives are connected by the disappearance of a ten-year-old child. The girl's mother retreats into a state of frozen hope; the convicted murderer becomes the subject of a new psychological study; and the doctor who is conducting the study searches for a reason why evil happens. Drawn together by horrific circumstances, these three embark on a long, dark journey.

• Playwright : Bryony Lavery
• Director : Oanh Nguyen*
• Set Designer : Masako Tobaru*
• Lighting Designer : Christian Lemay
• Sound Designer : Casey Long*
• Costume Designer : Courtny Greenough*
• Stage Manager : Masako Tobaru*
• Assistant Sound Designer : Mitchell Kohen

• Ralph Wantage : Jonathon Lamer*
• Agnetha Gottsmundottir : Jennifer Ruckman
• Nancy Shirley : Karen Webster*

• Sound/Lights : Mitchell Kohen
• Follow Spot/Lights : Masako Tobaru*

Bryony Lavery is a British playwright who has written more than 20 plays, including Frozen, The Magic Toyshop, A Wedding Story, Illyria, More Light, Goliath, and The Two Marias. She was also a professor of playwrighting at Birmingham University. She has also found the time to produce for television and radio and write a number of books, including a biography of Tallulah Bankhead. Starting out as an actress and theater administrator, she soon became fed up with playing poor parts in plays (such as the left arm of a sofa). Lavery soon decided to write better parts in plays for women, and has been able to make a living for nearly thirty years doing just that. As her work with the Women's Movement increased and fringe theatre grew in the early 1970s, Lavery and friends, Gerard Bell and Jessica Higgs, formed a collective group, Les Oeufs Malades, which performed in small venues throughout Britain. Lavery has also been a performer and writer with many other key groups including Monstrous Regiment, Dramatrix, Theatre Centre, Clean Break, and Women's Theatre Group. In her plays, Lavery has always demonstrated her self-described knack for never being in a situation, however tragic, where there isn't something funny. [top]

In 1999, Oanh co-founded The Chance Theater, where he is currently Artistic Director. His most cherished projects as a director are Undeclared..., Is Pepperoni a Vegetable?..., The Stroop Report, But I Don't Feel Grown Up, Three Days of Rain (OC Register's Top Ten of 2002 and Best Directors of 2002), Bash, Lee Miller: The Angel and The Fiend (commissioned by and performed at The Getty Museum), The Fantasticks, Lord of the Screen... (OC Weekly Nominee - Best New Play), Goodnight Children Everywhere (Nominated for 6 OC Weekly Awards, including Best Production and Best Director), Tape, Closer Than Ever (LA Times Critic's Choice), Porcelain (2006 GLAAD Media Award Nomination - Outstanding LA Production, Back Stage West Critic's Pick, OC Register's Top Ten of 2005, Nominated for 3 OC Weekly Awards, including Best Production and Best Director), Cabaret (Back Stage West Critic's Pick), The Laramie Project (Recipient of 2005 Arts Orange County Grant), The Last Five Years, Into The Woods (Back Stage West Critic's Pick), and Inventing Van Gogh. Among a number of national commercials, Oanh's television and film credits include "American Dreams", "Party of Five", "The Beast", "Andy Richter Controls the Universe", "The Closer", Jonathan Frakes' "Clockstoppers", "All In" starring Michael Madsen, third billing in Jean Jacques Annaud's "Two Brothers" starring Guy Pearce, and will be appearing in "Rush Hour 3" starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker. [top]