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Dying City by Christopher Shinn
New Muses Theatre Company
presents
DYING CITY
by Christopher Shinn
August 16 at 7:00
One-Night-Only
Pay What You Can
Tacoma Little Theater | Tacoma, WA
(210 N "I" St.)
A year after her husband's death in Iraq, Kelly, a young therapist, confronts his identical twin brother, who shows up at her apartment unannounced.
"Anyone who doubts that Mr. Shinn is among the most provocative and probing of American playwrights today need only experience the creepy, sophisticated welding of form and content that is DYING CITY. Anyone who has followed the career of Mr. Shinn, who is in his early thirties, knows that he uses tidy dramatic formulas the better to frame the defiant messiness of human lives. He hooks you with tantalizing expositionand the lure of a wham-bang solutionand then leaves you alone with your racing mind in a forest of ambiguities. On one level DYING CITY is as satisfyingly spooky, crisp and corny as an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. But in answering the plot's whodunit-type questions, it spawns a wriggling host of other, deeper questions that stay with you into the nightUnlike so many contemporary plays DYING CITY raises obvious, important issues in any-thing but obvious ways." NY Times.
"Trying to make sense of what is left behind envelops DYING CITY, Christopher Shinn's remarkable tale of loss and how two very different people handle their grief. The play is personal, intimate even, yet its themes could not be more all-encompassing and its emotional impact more affectingIn this subtle and revealing play, Shinn is able to take the political and humanize ittransforming the stuff of daily news stories into a devastating statement on the unforeseen and often hidden consequences of war." Associated Press.
"The finest new American play I've seen in a long whileDYING CITY is a political play and also a psychodrama about what Arthur Miller called the politics of the soul. It's about public conscience and private grief, and real and symbolic catastrophes." NY Observer.
STARRING:
Kait Mahoney as KELLY
Niclas Olson as PETER/CRAIG
Music Supervision
by Bethany Bevier
Stage Management
by Katelyn Hoffman
Directed by
Niclas Olson
Part of the 2015 One-Night-Only Staged Reading Series
Please note DYING CITY replaces the previously announced 9 CIRCLES in our schedule.
*Note: Intended for a mature audience DYING CITY contains adult language and situations and may be inappropriate for children and sensitive individuals.
Presented by special arrangement with Dramatist's Play Service, Inc.
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LocationTacoma Little Theater (View)
210 N I St.
Tacoma, WA 98402
United States
Categories
| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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