Conscience

DATES Sept. 25th - Oct. 13th

RUN TIME Approximately 2 hours, including 1 intermission

PRICE $20 - $73

PLAYWRIGHT Joe DiPietro

Conscience

Conscience takes us back to a time when Maine senators were the heart of the United States Senate. This is the story of Maine Senator Margaret Chase Smith, a trailblazer of Maine and national politics whose story is gripping, real, and critical to the Maine cultural identity. This play is a deep look into her gripping political rivalry with Wisconsin Senator Joe McCarthy. As the two begin to form a tense friendship that becomes an unlikely alliance, Senator Smith must choose between her political success, (including a potential Vice Presidential nomination), and her own conscience, culminating in the delivery of a potentially disastrous speech turned historic on the Senate floor, her Declaration of Conscience.

Industry Night
  • Wed, Oct 2, 7:30pm
On Sale 12noon day of show, in person.
Pay-What-You Can
  • Wed, Sep 25, 7:30pm
  • Sat, Oct 05, 8:00pm
  • Thu, Oct 10, 2:00pm
On sale 12pm until show time, day of show, in person.
Discussions
  • Script Club
    Sat, Sep 14, 1:30-2:30pm
  • Artistic Perspective
    Sun, Sep 29, Post Show
  • Curtain Call
    Sun, Oct 6. Post Show

Joe DiPietro has won two Tony Awards, a Drama Desk Award and three Outer Critics Circle Awards. His newest musical, Sinatra recently premiered at Birmingham Rep and is bound for Broadway, as is his musical, What's New, Pussycat, featuring the hits of Tom Jones, which also premiered at Birmingham Rep. Upcoming premieres include the murder mystery, An  Old-Fashioned Family Murder at NTR in Kansas City, and the musical 3 Summers of Lincoln, starring Brian Stokes Mitchell, which will premiere next season at LaJolla Playhouse. His adaptation of Sinclair Lewis' novel, Babbitt, starring Matthew Broderick, will open this fall at The Shakespeare Company DC, having recently debuted to critical acclaim at LaJolla Playhouse.

Other shows include Memphis (2010 Tony Award for Best Musical); Nice Work If You Can Get It (which starred Matthew Broderick & Kelli O'Hara and received 10 Tony nominations); Diana (Netflix); The Toxic Avenger (OCC Award - Best off-Broadway Musical); Ernest Shackleton Loves Me (Off-Broadway Alliance Award - Best Musical); I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change (the longest-running musical revue in off-Broadway history); as well as the much-produced comedies Clever Little Lies and Over the River and Through the Woods, among others. His La Ronde riff, F**king Men, is the longest-running fringe show in London history and is being revived there in the spring.

Margaret Chase Smith Kate Udall *

Senator Joe McCarthy Liam Craig *

William Lewis, Jr. John Maddaloni *

Jean Kerr Isabelle Van Vleet *

* Member, Actors' Equity Association

** Member, United Scenic Artists

Director Lisa DiFranza

Scenic Designer Germán Cárdenas Alaminos

Costume Designer Julie McMurry

Lighting Designer Marie Yokoyama **

Sound Designer Seth Asa Sengel

Stage Manager Myles C. Hatch *

Lisa DiFranza

Kate Udall (member AEA)

Liam Craig (member AEA)

John Maddaloni (member AEA)

Isabelle Van Vleet (member AEA)