Event

Toyer

Performances:

Friday, November 13, 2015 at 8 pm
Saturday, November 14, 2015 at 8 pm

Thursday, November 19, 2015 at 8 pm
Friday, November 20, 2015 at 8 pm
Saturday, November 21, 2015 at 8 pm
Sunday, November 22, 2015 at 2 pm

TOYER
by Gardner McKay

A toyer is someone who toys; he is a mass paralyzer who toys with his victims. He does not murder or rape, he seduces and then immobilizes.

From the author: "If this play is about anything, it is about our vast ability to manipulate one another. About our wondrous gift for lying. It is about our awful power of charisma. It is about our capacity to believe any truth, as it suits us. It is about our immediate power to forgive; our need to move on. It is about compromise, our willingness to sleep with our executioner. It is about our moral lawlessness: our loss of instincts, and the inner beliefs of our own. It is about our capacity to absorb mindless horror, that a crime is only a crime if it happens to us; nothing else angers us. It is about our dreadful crimes; not that they happen, that we know about them and turn the page."

"Deeply disturbing and entirely relevant. A classic mystery that keeps you on the edge of your seat, guessing." All Things Considered, National Public Radio

"A brilliant evening of theater. A double tour de force. The most exciting play we've had all year." Variety

"Powerful." The Washington Post

Contains graphic nudity, mature themes, adult language. No one under 18 admitted. Alcoholic beverages will not be served during this production.