Fivesparks Theater is excited to announce its first show, Constellations, by British playwright Nick Payne.

Constellations is set in the multiverse and explores the various versions of the evolving relationship between Marianne, a theoretical physicist, and Roland, a beekeeper. In addition to being an acting tour de force, the play is a provocative and poignant meditation on love, friendship and possibility – as well as string theory and quantum mechanics.

Performance Dates:  Friday, Saturday, and Sunday (matinee), May 2, 3, & 4; Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, May 15, 16, & 17.  All performances are at 7:30pm, except Sunday, May 4, matinee at 2pm.  Advance tickets go on sale April 1.

CAST

Michelle Mount has been acting with theater companies in Massachusetts for the past twenty years. At Vokes Players, her credits include: Sea Marks (Timothea), Communicating Doors (Jessica), Cyrano de Bergerac (Roxane), Harvey (Myrtle Mae), A Man of No Importance (Adele), Richard III (Lady Anne), Amadeus (Constanze). At Arlington Friends of the Drama: Court-Martial at Fort Devens (Lawson), Dancing at Lughnasa (Chris), Boeing Boeing (Gretchen), To Kill a Mockingbird (Mayella Ewell). At Concord Players: The 39 Steps (The Girl: Annabella, Pamela, Margaret), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Maggie). At Quannapowitt Players: Dearly Beloved (Frankie). At Gazebo Players: Much Ado About Nothing (Hero). At Turtle Lane Playhouse: The Secret Garden (Martha). At Needham Community Theatre: The Crucible (Abigail). At Theater Company of Saugus: The Glass Menagerie (Laura). Michelle is a theater educator with a Master of Liberal Arts in Dramatic Arts from Harvard University Extension School. She completed the Advanced Graduate Study Program in Teacher Leadership at Brandeis University. 

Jason Myatt is thrilled to be a part of the inaugural Fivesparks Theater production! Jason has performed with many Boston-area theaters over the years, with credits that include: Hovey Players: Stupid F#cking Bird (Sorn), The Clean House (Charles), Maytag Virgin (Jack), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bottom), Rocket Man (Donny), Twelfth Night (Malvolio). Umbrella Stage Company: The Minutes (Mr. Assalone), To Kill a Mockingbird (Gilmer/Cunningham), Glengarry Glen Ross (Moss), Dear Elizabeth (Robert Lowell). Quannapowitt Players: Clybourne Park (Karl/Steve), Terra Nova (Evans), November (President Smith), Becky’s New Car (Steve), All My Sons (George), Much Ado About Nothing (Dogberry). Acme Theater: Brooklyn Boy (Eric), Moon Over the Brewery (Warren), Coyote on a Fence (Brennan), Self Help (Hal). Vokes Theater: Murder on the Orient Express (Ratchett), Sense and Sensibility (Colonel Brandon), Bus Stop (Dr Lyman). Burlington Players: The Book of Will (John Heminges). Theatre Cooperative: Endgame (Clov), Waiting For Godot (Lucky), Romulus (Romulus), The Taming Of The Shrew (Petruchio).

Director, Producer:  Bob Eiland
Stage Manager:  Carolyn Mitchell
Scene Design:  Chris Kimball
Sign Language Consultant and Production Photographer:  Sanjay Gulati

Bob Eiland has directed, acted in, written and produced a great many shows over the years, including in venues such as Stageloft Rep, Arlington Friends of the Drama, Image Theatre of Lowell, Cannon Theatre where he is on the Board, and Fivesparks Theater.  He is founder of the Shakespeare in the Park group, The Gazebo Players; and for over a decade produced, directed and acted in staged readings of Old Time Radio Theater shows for Harvard Friends of the Arts.   Some of his favorite directorial endeavors include The Miracle Worker, To Kill a Mockingbird, Night of the Iguana and Arsenic and Old Lace.  Some of his favorite acting roles include Charly in Flowers for Algernon, John Proctor in The Crucible, Ford in Merry Wives of Windsor, Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing, Mortimer in Arsenic and Old Lace, Biff in Death of a Salesman and Sam in Philosophical Differences, one of his original plays.