After four years on a hit sitcom, starlet Laura Burns is at the end of her rope. Unimpressed by the whirlwind of fame and consumed by existential notions, she longs for an escape from the artificiality of her laugh-track life. But as the lines between her off-screen friendships and her on-screen ones blur, Laura must face the terrifying possibility that this might be the only reality in which she can exist. FRIENDS DON’T LET FRIENDS blends the melodrama of Henrik Ibsen’s HEDDA GABLER with the silliness of network television and bears witness to a public nervous breakdown with built in commercial breaks.

Script available for purchase on Indie Theatre Now!

PRESS

Theater In The Now: REVIEW: FRIENDS DON’T LET FRIENDS (Michael Bradley Block, December 11, 2011)
TDF Stages: THE ONE WHERE THE HEROINE SHOOTS HERSELF (Mark Peikert, December 5, 2011)
Broadway World: PHOTO FLASH: FRIENDS DON’T LET FRIENDS AT WALKERSPACE (December 5, 2011)
Theatre Is Easy: REVIEW: FRIENDS DON’T LET FRIENDS (Eleanor J. Bader, December 4, 2011)
Nytheatre.com: REVIEW: FRIENDS DON’T LET FRIENDS (Martin Denton, December 3, 2011)
Theater In The Now: SPOTLIGHT ON BECCA BALLENGER (Michael Bradley Block, November 15, 2011)

LESS THAN RENT THEATRE PRESENTS

FRIENDS DON’T LET FRIENDS

BY JAMES PRESSON
DIRECTED BY RACHEL BUETHE

DECEMBER 2-18, 2011
WALKERSPACE

CAST

HANNAH/LAURA BECCA BALLENGER
BRAD WILL TURNER
GEORGE CORY ASINOFSKY
ISAAC JASON ZEREN
ELLIE EMMA MARCH BARASH
JULES JENNA GROSSANO
BETH ASHLYNN ALEXANDER
HENRY TOMMY HETTRICK
ENSEMBLE ANDREW DEEB, EVAN KINCADE, MELISSA MICKENS, NICOLE ROBERTS

CREATIVE TEAM

PLAYWRIGHT JAMES PRESSON
DIRECTOR RACHEL BUETHE
PROD. STAGE MANAGER LINDSEY ALEXANDER
SCENIC DESIGN CAITE HEVNER
COSTUME DESIGN AMANDA BROOKLYN
LIGHT DESIGN RYAN SEELIG
SOUND DESIGN GIFFORD WILLIAMS
ASST. SCENIC DESIGN/PROPS JESSIE BONAVENTURE
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR ANDREW CHANDLER
ASST. DIRECTOR MAGGIE KING
ASST. STAGE MANAGER ELLEN GOLDBERG
ASSOC. PRODUCER EMILY STOUT
PRODUCTION ASST. JESS TROY
WARDROBE ASST. MEAGHAN MCLEOD, AMBER AVANT
PRESS REPRESENTATIVE HELLER HIGHWATER
GRAPHIC DESIGN HUNTER CANNING / RAY BRUWELHEIDE