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Playing Dead February 17 - March 14, 2010 by the Presnyakov Brothers Translated by Juanita Rockwell Directed by Russian Fulbright Scholar Yury Urnov
This wry, jocular work from leading Russian playwrights, the Presnyakov Brothers, features a thirty-something college dropout with a fierce willingness to avoid real work. Valya, still living with his mother, dating an indifferent girlfriend, and mixed up in a Hamlet-style vindication against a future father-in-law, makes his living by "playing dead" in murder reconstructions for the police.This defiant, deft, and delectable foray into Russian culture both submerges gleefully in irreverence and rings profoundly of truth.
The run time for Playing Dead is 90min. No Intermission.
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Playing Dead by the Presnyakov Brothers February 17 - March 14, 2010
Crumble (Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake) by Sheila Callaghan April 28 - May 23, 2010
Tragedy: a tragedy by Will Eno June 16 - July 11, 2010
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A year after a mysterious accident leaves 11-year-old Janice without a father, she concocts a bizarre wish list of Christmas presents for her mother. While mom searches for these disturbing demands, Janice holds spiteful, bleach-drinking tea-time conversations with her dolls, managing happiness only during visits from her pre-teen infatuation, Justin Timberlake. By the time Janice unfurls her diabolical Christmas-day plans, the only possible savior may be the dilapidated, deteriorating Apartment they live in; he's been watching all along.
From the playwright the New York Times calls the "Samuel Beckett for the Jon Stewart generation," this sharply written newscast brings the viewer delightfully absurd coverage of one of the greatest of American calamities: the sun has set, wil it ever rise again? A biting masterpiece about our dramatic, everyday utterances and the TV ratings that go along with them, Eno's dark take on fear and awe is sure to make you take another look at the way you receive your news.
