{"id":378850,"date":"2025-10-01T10:57:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T10:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/?p=378850"},"modified":"2025-10-01T10:57:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T10:57:53","slug":"set-in-the-alps-expats-theatres-cold-country-is-stark-and-breathtaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/2025\/10\/01\/set-in-the-alps-expats-theatres-cold-country-is-stark-and-breathtaking\/","title":{"rendered":"Set in the Alps, Expats Theatre\u2019s \u2018Cold Country\u2019 is stark and breathtaking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Death looms large in young Hanna Hauser\u2019s world \u2014 as stark and imposing as the mountains that surround her Alpine village \u2014 while life is as harsh as the howling winds that blow in every fall and portend the arrival of snow. Hanna\u2019s brother, Melk, died suddenly and mysteriously two years earlier, a death that her father, Jakob, and the village pastor, Father Hoffmann, describe as \u201cdying of melancholy.\u201d As the second anniversary of Melk\u2019s death approaches, the unanswered questions surrounding it echo through Hanna\u2019s family and their isolated dairy farming community like the sounds of yodeling that punctuate the sound design of ExPats Theatre\u2019s new production of <em>Cold Country<\/em> by Swiss playwright Reto Finger, now playing at Atlas Performing Arts Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Finger was a child, his family moved to a small village in the Emmental region of the Alps, where, as he shared with ExPats founder Karin Rosnizeck in a <a href=\"https:\/\/expatstheatre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recent interview<\/a>, \u201cin a way, we always felt like strangers.\u201d The harsh climate of the Alps, the Christian and pagan myths and folklore that haunt the landscape and its residents, and the childhood experience of feeling like an outsider or an observer in an insular community are all deeply felt in <em>Cold Country<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" src=\"https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/029_MichaelMelissaSadie-1600x1200-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-378851\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/029_MichaelMelissaSadie-1600x1200-1.jpeg 1600w, https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/029_MichaelMelissaSadie-1600x1200-1-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/029_MichaelMelissaSadie-1600x1200-1-460x345.jpeg 460w, https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/029_MichaelMelissaSadie-1600x1200-1-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/029_MichaelMelissaSadie-1600x1200-1-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/029_MichaelMelissaSadie-1600x1200-1-696x522.jpeg 696w, https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/029_MichaelMelissaSadie-1600x1200-1-265x198.jpeg 265w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Michael Crowley (Jakob Hauser), Melissa Robinson (Kathrin Hauser), and Sadie O&#8217;Conor (Hanna Hauser) in \u2018Cold Country.\u2019 Photo by Teresa Castracane Photography.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Translated and directed by Rosnizeck, ExPats\u2019 production of <em>Cold Country<\/em> opens with voiced-over narration of a mythical tale weaving together elements of several Alpine legends, backed by swelling strings and ethereal yodeling (sound design by Rosnizeck, Laura Schlachtmeyer, David Bryan Jackson, and Andrew Bellware) as stunning black-and-white footage of snowy peaks appears on a screen at the back of the stage (Tennessee Dixon, projections designer). Finger\u2019s opening fable features a dairy farmer named Macolvi haunted by the death of his daughter and demanding a reckoning from the divine, and is retold by Hanna and referenced by her parents throughout the play, serving as a frame story for the Hausers\u2019 own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As patriarch Jakob Hauser, Michael Crowley grieves his son with brooding, barely suppressed anger, which erupts as he slams his fist on the table in the family home and berates his wife Kathrin (Melissa B. Robinson) and daughter Hanna (Sadie O\u2019Conor) when they retreat into their own silences. He colludes with <em>Cold Country<\/em>\u2019s other patriarchal figure, Father Hoffmann (David Bryan Jackson), to conceal the circumstances of Melk\u2019s death from Kathrin and Hanna, even as he privately tells the pastor, \u201cYou know Melk didn\u2019t die of melancholy!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where Crowley\u2019s Jakob hides the truth behind silence, Jackson, as Father Hoffmann, obfuscates with pious platitudes: \u201cThe Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away.\u201d The increasingly creepy attention he pays to Hanna when she comes to decorate her brother\u2019s grave reveals Jackson\u2019s Father Hoffmann as a more sinister figure than the well-meaning but tone-deaf old man he initially appears to be.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" src=\"https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Cold-Country-Expats.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-378853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Cold-Country-Expats.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Cold-Country-Expats-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Cold-Country-Expats-460x345.jpg 460w, https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Cold-Country-Expats-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Cold-Country-Expats-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Cold-Country-Expats-696x522.jpg 696w, https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Cold-Country-Expats-265x198.jpg 265w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">LEFT: Sadie O&#8217;Conor (Hanna Hauser) and David Bryan Jackson (Father Hoffmann); RIGHT: Sadie O&#8217;Conor (Hanna Hauser), in \u2018Cold Country.\u2019 Photos by Teresa Castracane Photography.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Under the disapproving gaze of her father (who refers to her as \u201cthe kid\u201d rather than by her name) and the lecherous gaze of the pastor, Sadie O\u2019Conor as Hanna retreats into defiant silence and grows increasingly desperate to escape the village and its constant reminders of her brother\u2019s death. Dressed in black and gray throughout the play (Donna Breslin, costume designer), and conveying deep emotion through her facial expressions and body language, O\u2019Conor\u2019s Hanna is a young woman stretched taut by the grief and rage she represses in the presence of her parents and Father Hoffmann. She opens up only to the audience and to a tourist from the city, Tobias (Elgin Martin), who arrives in the village intending to climb the nearby mountain with his roommate Jasmin (Maryanne Henderson).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Martin delivers an earnest performance as Tobias, eager to soak up the beauty of the mountain world that Hanna longs to escape, and Henderson provides the play\u2019s few moments of comic relief in her brief scenes as Jasmin, they often feel less like developed characters and more like a plot device that Finger uses to allow the presence and perspective of outsiders to challenge the stories the villagers tell and the silences they keep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The stories \u2014 and the silences \u2014 surrounding Melk\u2019s death are challenged with increasing intensity by Hanna and, more understatedly, by her mother Kathrin (a weary and long-suffering Melissa B. Robinson) as the play progresses, setting in motion an explosive chain of events that echo the mythical frame story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Director and translator Rosnizeck describes <em>Cold Country<\/em> as Finger\u2019s \u201cmost Swiss play,\u201d and ExPats\u2019 production, from Dixon\u2019s projections of Alpine scenery to the yodeling featured heavily in the sound design to the recurring folkloric motifs, feels uniquely and particularly Swiss. Yet the themes it explores, of life and death and the fragile boundary between them, are universal \u2014 and portrayed in scenes as stark and breathtaking as the Alps themselves.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Running Time: Approximately 90 minutes, without intermission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/expatstheatre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><em>Cold Country<\/em><\/strong><\/a> plays through October 19, 2025 (Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 pm, Saturdays and Sundays at 2:30 pm), presented by <a href=\"https:\/\/expatstheatre.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ExPats Theatre,<\/a> performing at Atlas Performing Arts Center, Lab Theatre II, 1333 H St NE, Washington, DC. Tickets ($29.75\u2013$54.75) are available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlasarts.org\/events\/cold-country\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>online<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Cold Country<\/em><\/strong><em><br><\/em>By Reto Finger<br>Translated and directed by Karin Rosnizeck<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CAST<br>Jakob Hauser: Michael Crowley<br>Kathrin Hauser: Melissa B. Robinson<br>Hanna Hauser: Sadie O\u2019Conor<br>Father Hoffmann: David Bryan Jackson<br>Tobias: Elgin Martin<br>Jasmin: Maryanne Henderson<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CREATIVE TEAM<br>Director: Karin Rosnizeck<br>Stage Manager: Amberrain Andrews<br>Fight\/Intimacy Choreographer: Jon Beal<br>Costume Designer: Donna Breslin<br>Lighting Designer: Ian Claar<br>Scenic\/Projections Designer: Tennessee Dixon<br>Sound Design: Karin Rosnizeck, Laura Schlachtmeyer, David Bryan Jackson, Andrew Bellware<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO:<br><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/2025\/08\/28\/expats-theatre-to-present-cold-country-by-swiss-playwright-reto-finger\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Expats Theatre to present \u2018Cold Country\u2019 by Swiss playwright Reto Finger<\/strong><\/a> (news story, August 28, 2025)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swiss playwright Reto Finger explores themes of life and death and the fragile boundary between them.   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