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The three characters are named A, B and C. Each one of them delivers a monologue in rhyme. Each one tells a story that fits in with the other two. Playwright Mark O’Rowe’s Terminus has all the indicators of a really tightly-woven piece that tells the story of a former schoolteacher, a young woman and a serial killer who has sold his soul to the devil.
A local production of the drama makes it to the stage in Milwaukee courtesy of Theatre Gigante early next month. The cast assembled appears to be quite dynamic. Tom Reed, who has done work in a couple of prominent roles for Optimist Theatre’s Shakespeare in the Park in years past, plays the serial killer. He’s got an interesting gravity to him onstage that should work well here. The other two actors are clear, but who plays what isn’t certain. Unless they’ve decided to cast against expectations, Isabelle Kralj will be playing the former schoolteacher who agrees to help a young woman while trying to exorcise demons from her past. Megan Kaminski will be playing the young woman who comes to her for help.
There’s poetry. There’s drama. There’s intimacy on a small stage as Theatre Gigante closes its season with a production staged at UWM’s Kenilworth Studio 508 Theater at 1925 E. Kenilworth Pl. The show runs May 1-16. For more information, visit theatregigante.org.
