The Feast of the Flying Cow and Other Stories of War

2007 season · Production archive

A relief worker, an optimist, a pessimist and a powerful ambassador in a war-torn world — where Chekhov meets Pulp Fiction for The Feast of the Flying Cow.

Written by

Jeni Mahoney

Directed by

Lorraine Scott

Ran

September 7 – October 6, 2007

Produced by

And Toto too Theatre Company

Cast

Lisa Rosenhagen · Susan Lyles · Matt Daren · Wade P. Wood · Kathryn Gray

About the production

This was the second production the Vic hosted from the same visiting company that had opened the reopened house in 2005 with Appliance. A short cycle of war stories staged by five actors, it sat between a Neil Simon comedy and a Halloween Poe evening in the Vic’s autumn, which is roughly the tonal range a room with one stage and no second space can carry in a single season.

Programming of this kind — new and recent work by living writers, staged by small companies without buildings of their own — is the part of the American theatre ecology that depends most directly on rooms like this one being available at all. When the Vic closed in 2011, that is chiefly what Denver lost: not seats, but a slot in the calendar that a company of five could afford.

Where it sat in the season

It was production 6 of 8 in the Vic’s 2007 season. It followed Barefoot in the Park (Jul 27 – Sep 1, 2007) and was followed by An Evening With Edgar Allan Poe (Oct 12 – Nov 3, 2007). The full year is set out on the season calendars page, and every production the theatre staged between 2005 and 2011 is indexed in the production archive.

The house’s standard pattern was Friday and Saturday evenings at 7.30 with a Sunday matinee, over a run of six to eight weeks. With seventy-five seats, a full eight-week run put roughly 1,800 people through the room — which a 500-seat theatre does in four nights, and which is the single fact that explains most of what the Vic chose to programme.

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This page is part of the production archive of the Denver Victorian Playhouse, a seventy-five-seat theatre in the basement of a northwest Denver house that staged its last performance in 2011. Details here are restored from the theatre’s own records as they were published at the time; press quotations are reproduced with their original attributions and nothing has been added to them.