Logline:
[0] The Family Flea combines comedy and pathos to delve into the contradictions of impaired relationships, highly charged issues of status and self-worth, and the burden of an American family's unshakeable legacy.
Synopsis
The family matriarch Maxine, her husband Conrad and her daughters Charlotte and Stacy are all involved in the business, a home-based flea market in which the only item of value is the one thing that's not for sale.
Jessie, Maxine's next-door neighbor, best friend and Monopoly partner, plays an integral part in the unfolding conflict faced by Maxine and her family. These two women each carry closely held secrets that could destroy their life-long friendship.
Maxine has a growing need to pass the business on to one of her daughters, along with the stone, a mysterious heirloom that she proudly and protectively wears around her neck.
Inevitable change and provocation arrive in the form of younger daughter Stacy's new boyfriend from Russia.
With their fates cast between the stone and the Flea, Maxine and her family meet their greatest challenge. The Monopoly board topples and the stone fulfills its destiny.
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THE FAMILY FLEA
Production Staff
Artistic Director –– Andy Garrison
Co-Director –– Kathy Landin
Stage Manager –– Pam Adkisson
Assistant to the Directors –– Theresa Von Colln
Set Design –– Don Carlton
Scenic Artist –– Jim Gubar
Lighting Design –– Kevin Verhoff
Sound Design –– Andy Garrison
Sound Board Operator –– Allise Garrison
Props Coordinator –– Brian Shook
FlyOver Production Team –– Anna Hadzi, Andy Garrison
Cast
Maxine Owens –– Marilee Congrove
Jessie McCall –– Suzanne Fischer
A Customer –– Glorene Holdren
Charlotte Owens –– Mardi Parelman
Conrad Owens –– Adrian Alexander
Albert Lee –– Curtis Smith
Stacy Owens –– Kimberly Queen
Sergei Michailovich Astrikhov –– Michael Joiner
Maroon –– Glorene Holdren
Benni Green –– Glorene Holdren
Astrikhov understudy –– John Keating
