Event

K2 (Los Angeles Premier)

K2 is a "GO" with LA Weekly
K2 is "Ovation Recommended" with LA Stage Alliance

K2, the mountain, is the second-tallest peak on the planet rising to an elevation of 28,251 feet on the border between Pakistan and China.

K2, the play, is a 75-minute tour-de-force about two mountain climbers who are stranded on a ledge at 27,000. After an accident leaves one of the men with a severely broken leg, the two survive the night only to confront the fact that they do not have the necessary equipment to rappel to Base Camp safely.

K2 is the story of two contentious friends and their struggle to solve an impossible problem. It is a tale of friendship and morality, of love and mortality, of climbing, quantum physics and the search for God. It is about two men who are pushed to the brink of their mental and physical capacities. And, above all, it is the story of the savage mountain...