Four Places

October 16 - November 2 2025

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Cast

Amber Dow (Barb)

Valerie Gorman (Peggy)

Michael Stejskal (Warren)

Andrea Uppling (Ellen)

Understudies

Nick Arceo (Warren)

Amber Dow (Ellen)

Julie Mitre (Peggy)

Amy Torf (Barb)

Production Team

Lauren Berman (Producer/Director)

Lauren Miller (Assistant Producer)

Amanda Tancioco Rokosz (Stage Manager)

Bob Pinta (Set Designer)

Elliot DePappe (Lighting Designer)

Anika Splettstoeszer (Costume Designer)

Aaron Woodstein (Sound Designer)

Helen Neppl (Props Designer)

Mary McMurray (Assistant Director),

MJ Deamon (Intimacy Designer)

Synopsis

Four Places, deceptively simple and unfolding in real time, is an emotionally precise play that employs its spare components to devastating and darkly comic effect. A middle-aged brother and sister have gotten word from their elderly parents' caretaker that they may be a danger to each other. The brother joins his sister and mother on their weekly lunch date, hoping that he and his sister can get a clearer picture of the situation. As the mother confronts the indignities of age, and the children stare down a mounting list of losses and disappointments, a harrowing image of the family emerges. Johnson explores the ways that familial love and knowledge create both hurt and comfort.