Heisenberg

Description

Co-Production from Rubicon Theatre and Laguna Playhouse

Directed by KATHARINE FARMER

In a bustling London train station free-spirited American Georgie unexpectedly plants a kiss on the neck of mid-70s British butcher Alex as he sits on a bench at St Pancras Station. And when she turns up in his shop a few days later, she sets the suspicious man’s world reeling. As Alex is drawn into Georgie’s anarchic world, his conventional life becomes chaotic, uncertain, and undeniably richer. Peeling away the many layers of everyday relationships with subtle humor and quiet poeticism, Heisenberg brings to poignant theatrical life the uncertain and often comical sparring match that is human connection. Written by Tony Award-winning playwright Simon Stephens (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) and starring Faline England (Valentine’s Day) and Joe Spano (Hill Street Blues and NCIS).

Average Running Time: 1 hour 20 minutes no intermission
Recommended for audiences 12 and up

Open caption performance: Saturday, April 06, 2019 at 2:00PM 

Talk-back performance dates: Thursday, April 11, 2018 at 7:30PM and Saturday, April 6, 2019 at 2:00PM

Faline England
Georgie Burns
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Faline England

She has been seen at the Rubicon in Gulf View Drive (L.A. Stage Alliance Ovation Award for Best Production of a Play, Larger Theatre/Nomination for Best Supporting Actress); Crimes of the Heart (Indy Award), Turn of the Screw, (Ovation Nomination for Best Production of a Play, Larger Theatre), and All My Sons, (Ovation Award for Best Production of a Play, Larger Theatre/Nomination for Best Supporting Actress). Faline graduated with a B.F.A. in Theatre from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and currently lives in L.A. Stage credits include Julius Caesar with Shakespeare Center L.A., Carry the World: Women and Peace with Creative Visions, Twelfth Night (Indy Award), Chicago (Indy Award), The Rover (Indy Award), The Three Sisters, Playboy of the Western World, The Changeling, and The Tavern. She appeared in Heartbreak House and The Tempest with Theatre Artist’s Group, Finnegan’s Wake with Santa Barbara Dance Theatre; Purge! with James Donlon & Co.; and All in the Timing at Western Stage. Faline co-wrote, produced, and starred in the two-person show “Flayjennnie Eroticus: A Documentary” (Indy Award). Television credits include “9-1-1,” “Station 19,” “Criminal Minds,” “The Mentalist,” “Nip/Tuck,” “CSI,” “Numb3rs,” “Medium” and “Without a Trace.” She studies and teaches acting at Diana Castle’s The Imagined Life Studio in L.A. Faline thanks Maggie Mixsell for launching the Heisenberg train. She also thanks David, Diana Castle, her family, Barbara and Tony Hirsch, Bohemia Group, and all of her amazing students. 

Alex Priest
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Press Coverage

  • TV cop Joe Spano books a different kind of role in Laguna Beach

    Starting this week Spano stars in the Laguna Playhouse production of Tony Award-winning playwright Simon Stephens’ quirky July-November romance, “Heisenberg.” “Faline and I picked out this play to do together,” Spano says of co-star, Faline England. “It took a year and now it’s happening and so now we have to pay the price for it.”

  • ‘Heisenberg’ Celebrates Complexity of Relationships

    In a bustling London train station, free-spirited American Georgie unexpectedly plants a kiss on the neck of mid-70s British butcher Alex. When she turns up in his shop a few days later, she sends the suspicious man’s life reeling. As Alex is drawn into Georgie’s anarchic world, his conventional existence becomes chaotic, uncertain and undeniably richer.

  • Review: This ‘Heisenberg’ puts its love story squarely on the autism spectrum

    Mapping quantum physicist Werner Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle onto a quirky May-December love story, Simon Stephens’ 2015 two-hander gets a bold new interpretation in the Rubicon Theatre-Laguna Playhouse co-production wrapping up its Ventura run this weekend and reopening in Laguna Beach next month.

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