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- Hayley Treider as Anna and Kevin O'Dennell as Herr Hudetz in Judgment Day at Bard Summerscape. Photo Cory Weaver.
Ödön von Horváth,
Judgment Day
Directed by Caitriona McLaughlin
Cast:
Herr Hudetz – Kevin O'Donnell
Frau Hudetz, Stephanie Roth Haberle
Alfons – Dashiell Eaves
Anna – Hayley Treider
Ferdinand – Shawtane Bowen
Landlord – Craig Bockhorn
Leni – Beth Cole
Frau Leimgruber – Kelly McAndrew
Pokorny/Prosecutor – Rod Brogan
Kohut/Costumer – Sidney Williams
Woodsman/Deputy – Joseph Adams
Traveling Salesman/Detective/Kreitmeyer – Brandon Dirden
Policeman – Eric Miller
Child – Isabel LaBarbera / Cassandra LaBarbera
In the opening scene of Ödön von Horváth’s Judgment Day,
Frau Leimgruber, bitingly played by Kelly McAndrew, gives us (and the travelling salesman who walks in) an earful about the nice, hard-working stationmaster, Herr Hudetz. In this remote small town, Herr Hudetz has to do everything that needs to be done at the station. He sells tickets, collects packages, changes the signals, etc., etc. — all for low pay. However, he does get a house by the station, which affords his jealous wife a view of everything that goes on there. Frau Hudetz, fourteen years older than her husband, managed to entrap him into marriage. Now, as her age catches up with her, she is embittered and makes his life miserable any way she can — above all through her jealous rages and her unwillingness to allow him any independence at all. She has stopped even his innocent hours in the local tavern, “The Wild Man.” She and her brother Alfons, the local apothecary, are without a doubt the most unpopular people in town.