Role Call: A Who’s Who in Court Theatre’s production of The Mystery of Irma Vep
By Catey Sullivan
In The Mystery of Irma Vep, by Charles Ludlam, two actors play a haunted household’s worth of servants, masters, werewolves, mummies, and more in a tale that riffs on everything from the Brontës to Poe to more schlock horror flicks than you can shake a bloody severedleg at. Herein, a who’s who in the anagrammatic Irma Vep (ahem: “vampire”).
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CHRIS SULLIVAN plays Nicodemus Underwood: a lame farmhand who sounds like the love child of Peter Lorre and Mr. Magoo | ERIK HELLMAN plays Jane Twisden: Jane Eyre, minus the selflessness, plus a bloody hatchet and a withering postmodern command of irony |
and Lady Enid Hillcrest: Edgar’s second wife, aka Vep’s necrophilic replacement | and |
and Alcazar: an exotic Egyptian from central casting—or is he? | and the titular Irma Vep: the late mistress of the manor, who, in death, remains a total bit—er, character with bite |
GO: Previews Nov 12 - 20; $24 - $40. Regular run Nov 21 - Dec 13; $38 - $56. Court Theatre, 5535 S Ellis. courttheatre.org
This article appears in the November 2009 issue of Chicago magazine.
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