Nine (May 2006)

Performances	Fridays and Saturdays -- May 19, 20, 26, 27, June 1*, 2, 3, 8*, 9, 10 (all at 8pm) * Thursday night performances
Location	The Kensington Town Center (address is at the bottom of the page, and directions can be found here)
Reviews	The Washington Post | The Sentinel
Playbill	Cover (580K PDF) | Page 2/7 (87K PDF) | Page 3/6 (30K PDF) | Page 4/5 (24K PDF)
For More Info	Call us at 240.396.4307 or e-mail us at kat-information.

Background

Guido Contini, a film director in the Fellini mould, has contracted with Liliane La Fleur to write and direct a film, but is unable to come up with a suitable plot. He is also, after recent box office failures, drifting towards a nervous breakdown, from which he is held back only by the support of his wife, Luisa.

As his sanity disintegrates, he drifts into nostalgic revelries, eventually focusing on the formative sexual encounter of his life, which occurred at the age of nine. He tries to lure the great actress Claudia Nardi into creating yet another version of the character that had launched her career in one of his earliest works, a character derived from Contini's precocious sexual encounters with a whore dressed as a nun.

At the same time, he buys his mistress a nun's habit and encourages her to help him relive his childish passion. La Fleur decides that the film should be a musical based on the life of Casanova, but Contini's rush into madness, which accelerates when his wife leaves him, throws the production into chaos.

Cast

Guido Contini	Dimitrios Drimonis
Little Guido	Sam Weich
Luisa Contini	Constance Grignon
Carla Albanese	Laura Anne Knockenhauer
Claudia Nardi	Sophie Ballo
Guido's Mother	Kim Weaver
Liliane LaFleur	Liz Weber
Lina Darling	Temple Fortson
Stephanie Necrophorous	Amy Conley
Our Lady of the Spa	Kate Keifer
Mama Maddelena	Marcia Bauman
Sarraghina	Katie McManus
Diana	Renée Rabben
Maria	Casie Terry
Annabella	Laura Schier
Renata	Victoria Hutter
Olga Von Sturm	Joy Gerst
Heidi Von Sturm	Gayle Gillespie