Playing July 10-july 27, 2025
the McConnell Theater

Constanze Mozart, wife of the great composer, struggles mightily in the wake of his too-early death in 1791 — to feed her children, to survive her own shattering grief, and to secure her husband’s astonishing musical legacy by completing his great unfinished masterwork, the Requiem in D Minor. With the odds and the whole of patriarchy working against her, the perennially-underestimated Constanze Mozart digs deep to find a way to not only prevail but to triumph—in the end, she’s the last woman standing, smarter and braver than everyone else in her story.

Note: This play contains adult themes and discussions of sexual violence. It may not be appropriate for all audiences.

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Cast and creative team

Tara Franklin

Constanze Mozart
Tara Franklin is honored to collaborate on this project, her first with Great Barrington Public Theatre. A Berkshire native, she has enjoyed a professional career in the theatre for the past 25 years, working in New York, Chicago and regionally. Locally, she has been seen in numerous productions with the Berkshire Theatre Group, where she also had the opportunity to begin her career as an educator. Tara spent two years at the McKittrick Hotel in New York, performing in Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More before moving back to the Berkshires. Favorite acting credits include roles in Much Ado About Nothing and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Nebraska Shakespeare Festival, Educating Rita, The Homecoming, and At Home at the Zoo with the Berkshire Theatre Group, and Sister Play, Tiny Beautiful Things, On the Exhale, Circle Mirror Transformation and The Thin Place at Chester Theatre Company. Tara serves on the faculty in the Theatre & Dance Department at Smith College. She also runs an online baking business, Sweet Sam Bakes, named for her son who inspires her daily.
Ryan Winkles

The People in Constanze’s Story
Ryan Winkles is very glad to be back at Great Barrington Public Theater. Other credits at GBPT include The Stones (Nick) and Breakwater (JFK). Regional credits include: Shakespeare & Company: Antony and Cleopatra, As You Like It, Henry V, Julius Caesar, Love's Labour's Lost, Macbeth, Merry Wives of Windsor, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Othello, Richard III, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Winter's Tale, Hound of the Baskervilles, Creditors, The Learned Ladies, and Mother Courage; WAM Theatre: ROE, The Old Mezzo; Theater at Woodshill: Hamlet; Gloucester Stage: Mr. Fullerton: Between the Sheets; Martha's Vineyard Playhouse: Visitors; Commonwealth Shakespeare Company: The Winter's Tale, Universe Rushing Apart; the Huntington Theatre Company: Joy and Pandemic. Film/television credits include The Boston Strangler(Hulu) and Time Traveling Bong(Comedy Central). Ryan is a proud member of Actors Equity and SAG and teaches Stage Violence at Boston University and The Hartt School.
Hudson Orfe

The Pianist
Hudson Orfe (he/him) is currently pursuing his BFA in Musical Theatre from Carnegie Mellon University. He is absolutely thrilled to be returning to the Great Barrington Public Theatre after appearing in Night At The Speakeasy last summer. He has served as the music director, accompanist, and arranger for countless projects, including his own original musicals A Million Moments On The Mackinac Bridge and his new adaptation of The Little Match Girl.
Anne Undeland

Playwright
Anne Undeland is member of the Dramatists Guild, Howl Playwrights, and Rooted Writers. Productions and workshops of full-length plays include Lady Randy (WAM Theatre at Shakespeare & Company, 2019), Wharton Between the Sheets (Great Barrington Public Theater, 2021 {four Berkshire Theater Critics Assoc noms incl best new play}, Boston’s Gloucester Stage, 2022, Salmagundi Club, NYC 2023, semifinalist at LA’s The Road Theater 2024 New Play Festival, and Vermont’s Middlebury Acting Company, 2025). Her short work has been presented around the world (Berkshire Playwrights Lab, Boston Playwrights Theater, Nevada Arts Council, Oldcastle Theater, Short and Sweet, SpeakEasy, The Road Theater, Windhover Arts Center, etc.) with her short, The Kiss winning best play at the West Side Y in NYC and her audio piece, Adeline’s Gambol a finalist for the Miller Audio Award at the Missouri Review. Madame Mozart is both her and Great Barrington Public’s first commissioned play. https://www.anneundeland.com
Judy Braha

Director
Judy Braha (Director) (She/Her) has been a director, teacher and arts activist for over four decades. Long-time Head of the M.F.A. Directing Program at Boston University College of Fine Arts, her credits include theaters and universities throughout New England. She works with the BU Prison Arts Project and Race Prison Justice Arts focusing on the intersection of the arts and social justice. A proud member of SDC, Judy is currently Associate Artistic Director at Great Barrington Public Theater in the beautiful Berkshires. Recent Directing: Things I Know To Be True, Mr. Fullerton, Dog People (GBPT), The Exonerated, Our Class, Shakespeare in Love (Boston University), To Kill A Mockingbird, Mr. Fullerton, Between the Sheets (Gloucester Stage), Golda’s Balcony (New Rep), Flight of the Monarch (Shakes+ Company), Touring Solo shows: You Can Live If They Let You by Moshe Waldoks and Representation and How To Get It by Joyce Van Dyke. https://judybraha.squarespace.com/