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RED LIGHT WINTER
By Adam Rapp
September 28 - October 22, 2006 (SOUTHEASTERN US PREMIERE)
"It's totally familiar but dreamlike at the same time," observes one American of Amsterdam's notorious Red Light District in the stunning new work from Adam Rapp. Escaping their lives in Manhattan, former college buddies Matt and Davis take off to the Netherlands and find themselves thrown into a bizarre love triangle with a beautiful young prostitute named Christina. But the romance they find in Europe is eventually overshadowed by the truth they discover at home. Written with an unflinching poetic beauty, Red Light Winter is a play of sexual intrigue that explores the myriad and misguided ways we seek to fill the empty spaces inside us.
RABBIT HOLE
By David Lindsay-Abaire
November 30 - December 23, 2006 (SOUTHEASTERN US PREMIERE)
David Lindsay Abaire's newest play RABBIT HOLE recently earned 5 Tony Nominations and took Broadway by storm starring Tyne Daly and Cynthia Nixon (2006 Tony Award Winner).
Becca and Howie Corbett have everything a family could want, until a life-shattering accident turns their world upside down. RABBIT HOLE charts their bittersweet search for comfort and for a path that will lead them back into the light.
GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS
By David Mamet
February 15 - March 4, 2007
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
(Limited Engagement)
This scalding comedy took Broadway and London by storm and won a Pulitzer Prize. Never has the author's ear for the rhythms of contemporary speech been more keen than in this tale of cutthroat competition among real estate salesmen. Roma is in the lead for the monthly sales award, a new Cadillac while former top salesman Shelly Levene is riding a streak of bad luck. They are dependent on Williamson to give them hot leads, and Williamson ruthlessly pits them against each other. In the first act, the salesmen vie for position as they gulp their cocktails in the local Chinese restaurant. The second act shifts to the office, where the promising "Glengarry Glen Ross" leads have been filched. "Crackling tension ... ferocious comedy and drama." - N.Y. Times. "Wonderfully funny.... A play to see, remember and cherish." - N.Y. Post.
9 PARTS OF DESIRE
by Heather Raffo
April 18 - May 13, 2007
POWERFUL! IMPASSIONED! VIVID! MEMORABLE! New York Times
AN EXAMPLE OF HOW ART CAN REMAKE THE WORLD! A TRIUMPH! THRILLING! The New Yorker
Tyranny and war both come with extreme costs, and we often forget who pays. From the outside looking in, it's easy to view a nation's population as some formless group, joined by a shared religion or language.
Writer/Performer Heather Raffo spent 11 years conducting dozens of interviews on and over four continents with Iraqi women. Her resulting "theatrical mosaic" depicts the realities of life in Iraq both under Saddam Hussein and since his ouster for several of these unique women, whose individuals worlds have been frayed and fractured, sometimes beyond repair, by their country's history.
Nine Parts of Desire was inspired by Raffo's trip to the Saddam Art Center in Baghdad in 1993 where she saw only billboard-size portraits of Saddam Hussein. However, in a back room she discovered a painting of a nude woman clinging to a barren tree with her head bowed. There was a light in front of her, like a sun. Raffo took a photo of the painting in hopes of finding the artist, only to discover she had been killed during an American-led bombing raid in Baghdad earlier that year.
THOM PAIN (based on nothing)
by Will Eno
June 28 - July 15, 2007
Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize
(LIMITED ENGAGEMENT)
If you do one thing this summer - let Thom Pain entertain you at Mosaic! He's just like you, except worse. He is trying to save his life, to save your life - in that order. In his quest for salvation, he'll stop at nothing, be distracted by nothing, except maybe a piece of lint, or the woman in the second row. Don't miss this brilliant work starring Award-Winning Actor, Todd Allen Durkin.
"Astonishing in its impact... It's one of those treasured nights in the theatre - treasured nights anywhere, for that matter - that can leave you both breathless with exhilaration and, depending on your sensitivity to meditations on the bleak and beautiful mysteries of human experience, in a puddle of tears. Also in stitches, here and there. Mr. Eno is a Samuel Beckett for the John Stewart generation... To sum up the more or less indescribable: THOM PAIN is at bottom a surreal meditation on the empty promises life makes, the way experience never lives up to the weird and awesome fact of being. But it is also, in its odd, bewitching beauty, an affirmation of life's worth... a small masterpiece." - NY Times. "Eno has emerged as one of the most original young playwrights on the scene. He is one of the few writers who can convert discomfort and outright agony into such pleasure." - Time Out. "It's hard to imagine more dazzling writing on any stage... Eno is light, rhythmic and meticulous." - London Daily Telegraph
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