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09/10 Season
BUG
Written by Tracy Letts
Directed by Susannah Greenwood
".obscenely exciting.top-flight craftsmanship. Buckle up and brace yourself." NY Times
".[a] thoroughly outrageous and thoroughly entertaining play.the possibility of enemies, real and imagined, to squash has never been more theatrical." Associated Press
".a wonderfully lurid new thriller." Star Ledger
".a riveting thriller of paranoia and an instant guilty pleasure." Hollywood Reporter
From the brilliant mind of Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning playwright, Tracy Letts, comes this gritty, psychological drama. Set in a seedy Oklahoma City motel room, the play centers on the meeting between Agnes, a divorced waitress with a fondness for cocaine and isolation, and Peter, a soft-spoken Gulf War drifter introduced to her by her lesbian friend, R.C. Agnes stays at a hotel in hopes of avoiding her physically abusive ex-husband, Jerry, who was just released from prison. At first, she lets Peter sleep platonically on her floor, but not long after she promotes him to the bed. Matters become more complicated as Jerry eagerly returns to the woman he loves to beat her up, expecting to resume their relationship. On top of that, there's a hidden bug infestation problem that has both Agnes and Peter dealing with scathing welts and festering sores-which has Peter believing this is the result of experiments conducted on him during his stay at an army hospital. Their fears soon escalate to paranoia, conspiracy theories and twisted psychological motives.
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| Location: | Historic Hoover Theater 1635 Park Avenue San José , CA 95126 All performances begin at 8pm except Sunday. Sunday performances begin at 2pm. |
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The Shape of things
Written by Neil LaBute
Directed by
Kathleen Normington
"[LaBute] continues to probe the fascinating dark side of individualism, whose ultimate evil is an inability to imagine the suffering of others.... LaBute's great gift is to live in and to chronicle that murky area of not knowing, which mankind spends much of its waking life denying. Where does truth end and fiction begin? Is the fiction more valuable than the truth? Do the results justify the means?" The New Yorker
"What is art? What are you permitted to do in its name?... These questions are thrown up by a piece whose intricate layers of treachery are worthy of David Mamet..." The Independent
"LaBute is a smart, ambitious writer who, at his best, dares to explore the ambivalence hiding under the weave of our social fabric. He always has a serious intellectual project in mind, and here he aims at no less than the subjectivity of love and the definition of art itself. THE SHAPE OF THINGS is compulsively watchable." Newsday
A startling dissection of cruelty and artistic creation from the writer of IN THE COMPANY OF MEN, THE WICKER MAN, and FAT PIG.
In a modern version of Adam's seduction by Eve, THE SHAPE OF THINGS pits gentle, awkward, Adam against experienced, analytical Evelyn. After a chance meeting at a museum, Evelyn and Adam embark on an intense relationship that causes shy and principled Adam to go to extraordinary lengths to improve himself. In the process, Evelyn's subtle and insistent coaching results in a reconstruction of Adam's fundamental moral character. Only in a final and shocking revelation does Evelyn reveal the nature of her interest in Adam. Labute's latest work is an intense and disturbing study not only of the uses of power within human relationships, but also of the ethics involved in the relationship of art and life. THE SHAPE OF THINGS challenges society's most deeply entrenched ideas about art, manipulation, and love.
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RIGHT PLACE, RIGHT TIME
WORLD PREMIERE
Written by Lia Romeo
Directed by Aldo Billingslea
Richard Lamparsky, divorced, unsuccessful and 40, wins life's lottery when a wealthy woman suddenly needs a stand-in groom. But the rich are not like you and me. Can he hold onto his good fortune? A mordant comedy by Lia Romeo from the heart of our materialistic society.
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