Intimate, Intelligent, Intense
What horror lurks beneath the neat, reassuringly familiar facade of suburban life? In Laura Wade's take on modern suburban isolation, everyone's a corpse... but some are still breathing: Hotel cleaner Amy has discovered another body at work. Jim is puzzled by a sinister smell emanating from one of his storage units, and Ben and Kate are fighting over the dog after a long, hot afternoon with the police. Breathing Corpses is a darkly humorous examination of contemporary suburbia. As the heat rises and the bodies pile up, Wade's plot unfolds in a Memento-style backtrack, bringing the characters face to face with their own mortality.
With a mixture of cutting truths and constant laughs, GRACE examines the marriage of an intensely Christian couple, their disfigured neighbor, a shaky business deal, and the way religious ideas make sense - and sometimes nonsense - of life's events. Murder, romance, faith, and betrayal make for an explosive combination in this darkly funny and provocative play from Craig Wright, writer for ABC's Lost and HBO's Six Feet Under.
One by one a group of unacquainted people come together to form a line for some unnamed, upcoming event. Gradually the struggle for first place begins, as they lie, cheat, wrestle and push to gain the lead spot.
Chris Fluck, Mike Hagan, Megan Hoke, Nathaniel Robertson and Bob Schmidt