MONSTER IN THE DARK (2008, 2009)
by Doug Dorst and the foolsFURY ensemble

Monster is a collaboration with best-selling novelist Doug Dorst (S., Alive in Necropolis). A deeply disturbing, sometimes hilarious examination fantastic on the fears we grapple with in our anxiety-laden society. A community at once engagingly foreign and disturbingly familiar, is shaped by three intense forces that have become so interwoven that it is hard to know where one ends and the next begins:  a powerful, invasive government (The Structure), a state-endorsed fundamentalist religion (The Makersellers), and the world of commerce (The Stuff-Thrusters). When the foretold signs of the apocalypse approach, the uneasy balance between the three is is broken.

“Visually and linguistically sumptuous. Top 10 Bay Area productions of the year." - East Bay Express

” Monster is Masterful…passionate performances in creative future world production.” San Francisco Examiner

Creative Team:
Written by Doug Dorst
Created by the foolsFURY Ensemble
Directed by Ben Yalom
Produced by Angela Santillo
Sound Design – Patrick Kaliski
Costume Design – Kaibrina Sky Buck and Ambra Sultzbaugh
Lighting Design – Cameron Mock
Scenic Design – Ben Sherris
Movement Consultant – Lee Eisler
Stage Management – Amanda Melton and Tanya Telson

Performed by:
Jonathan Bock (understudy)
Deborah Eliezer
Blythe Foster
Jessica Kitchens
Lillian Meredith (understudy)
Peter Ruocco
Ryan Tasker
Beth Wilmurt

Additional performances by Stephen Jacobs, David Mendelsohn, Zac Jaffee, and Téana David.