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4 Plays: 4 Days
GOD OF CARNAGE by Yasmin Reza, Thursday, January 30th @7pm
The first of four staged readings in the series is by the Pulitzer Prize winning writer of ART (performed a last years 4 plays: 4 Days series.) This is yet another hilarious and explosive exposé on today's liberated elite. Two Brooklyn couples gather to discuss a playground scrap between their two 11-year old boys. What begins as a civilized negotiation over cocktails - around a coffee table adorned with fresh-picked tulips and modern art books - devolves into a savage, toxic battle over child-rearing, marriage, and morality. While the adults enact their own playground drama, brilliantly infused with Reza's whip-cracking wit, the questions of responsibility and choice seem less consequential than the fact that all matter of manners, courtesies, and basic kindergarten rules of human interaction can so quickly evaporate leaving nothing but vitriol, bile and chaos. Sound familiar? Come watch the hilarious carnage unfold.
Cast: Kevin Green, Stacy Corless, Marlene Piper, Mike Dostrow
Length: One hour. Performed without an intermission
CONSTELLATIONS by Nick Payne, Friday, January 31st @7pm
If you have ever wanted a do-over, say, of a job interview, a date, or a marriage,and obsessively replayed the alternate reality over and over again in your head, Constellations lives out these multiple might-have-beens. Theoretical physicist Marianne and beekeeper Roland meet at a barbecue and their future plays out in the varied possibilities of the multiverse, or the many possible permutations of events. Sometimes they fall in love; sometimes they barely speak to each other. Sometimes they are open and available; sometimes they are married or marrying other people. But as much as the play's structure explores the multidimensional texture of string theory the story itself is about the progress of ordinary life, which begins with seemingly endless possibilities and ends when heartbreak or death denies any further choice. The most romantic in our series, this play is not to be missed.
Cast: Caliese Linnastruth, Owen Page
Length: 70 MINUTES. Performed without an intermission
CLOSER by Patrick Marber, Saturday, February 1st @7pm
Heralded as one of the best plays about sexual politics ever written in the English language, this show is not for kids, or the sexually squeamish. In fact, the action, dialogue, subtext and context all revolve around lust and sexual gratification, with just a hint of that agonizingly human need for intimacy. Four characters - a doctor, a writer (both men), a photographer, a stripper (both women) - meet on a relentless and overlapping quest for love. "Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off," proclaims Alice, the stripper. Meanwhile, Anna the Photographer, complains that "men love the way we make them feel, but not us." It's no wonder Julia Roberts, Natalie Portman, Jude Law and Clive Owen chose to star in the movie adaptation. The dialogue is biting, hilarious, and wicked smart, and can't help but make you wonder: is intimacy really possible or are we all destined to suffer due to our bottomless, unattainable desires? The play keeps the audience thrillingly off balance. As John Simon of New York magazine describes it, "Closer does not merely hold your attention; it burrows into you."
Cast: Jesse Steele, Lesley-Anne Hoxie, Craig Sterling, Allison McDonell Page
Length: 75 Minutes. Performed without an intermission
ANNAPURNA by Sharr White, Sunday, February 2nd @4pm
A woman barges into a filthy trailer to find her ex-husband holding a frying pan and wearing nothing but an apron. The sight is almost as horrifying as the stench of meat in the fridge that he bought at the dollar store. But by the size of her luggage it looks like she's here to stay. Meet Ulysses, a rebel poet gone old and his first wife Emma, his one time editor and ultimate cause of his grizzled, broken heart. As Emma attempts to clean up Ulysses' mess the story of their mangled history unfolds revealing an intimate portrait of a marriage and the love and madness that indelibly lives on. A comic and gripping duet about two ferociously damaged people who can't live with each other and can't live without.
Cast: Maureen McClain, Chuck Scatolini
Length: 75 Minutes. Performed without an intermission
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LocationThe Edison Theater (View)
100 College Parkway
Mammoth Lakes,, CA 93546
United States
Categories
| Kid Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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