Losing Ground in the Big City

Losing Ground in the Big City features:

Fayra Teeters	Director
Robin Pair	Stage Manager
Robin Pair	Technical Director
Nan Frederick	Costumer
Ian Morris	Quaid
Benedict Herrman	Quaid's Other
Rian Turner	Tom (Quaid's brother)
Katrina Acaster	Norma (student-hooker)
Nan Frederick	Hazel (Quaid's mother)
Jim Becker	Willard (Quaid's father)
Elizabeth Houghton	Barely (Quaid's sister)

Sponsored in part by a grant from the Subud International Cultural Association, USA and Subud Portland

Losing Ground in the Big City is a black comedy that grapples with the gravitational pull of a dysfunctional family and how group dynamics can distort perceptions of reality. After breaking from his very religious rural family who give him panic attacks, Quaid winds up in San Francisco trading stock securities over the Internet. Devoted to his money gods, he is unable to see the black hole that is about to devour him. That’s when Quaid’s naïve younger brother, Tom, joins him but has trouble adapting to the big city and Quaid’s domineering attitude. He certainly isn’t helping Quaid’s relationship with his girlfriend – a student hooker paying her way through college. All Quaid needs to do is keep his parents at bay over their “lost son”, dodge their religious fanaticism, appease his money gods, and control his alter ego who has the nasty habit of popping out of the mirror at the worst possible times to rebuke him.