Middletown. San Francisco premiere of award-winning playwright Will Eno’s absurdist take on “Our Town.” A newcomer to Middletown befriends a man whose secrets will disrupt everyone. Directed by Brian Katz. Custom Made Theatre, 533 Sutter Street, San Francisco.
Newly arrived in town, Mary Swanson (Cary Cronholm Rose, Top Girls) is trying to start a family, but her husband is nowhere to be found. While adjusting to her new life, she meets Middletonians of all sorts, but connects most of all with John Dodge (Fred Pitts, Eurydice), a quiet and compassionate man whose secrets will disrupt the peace and quiet of this average American town.
From the author of Broadway’s The Realistic Joneses (now playing at ACT) and Thom Paine (based on nothing) comes Middletown, Will Eno’s take on Our Town – which follows the lives of the inhabitants of a place called Middletown as they intersect in strange ways. Middletown runs March 24-April 23 at Custom Made Theatre, 533 Sutter Street, San Francisco, 94102.
This modern take on Our Town sets out on a journey -- to somewhere in the middle -- in search of the meaning of life. Middletown holds a microscope to American living.
At the heart of this sweet and disturbing exploration, Eno highlights our tender struggle for human connection and how we're all looking for a little meaning in this mystery we call life. Along the way, Middletown, the winner of the Horton Foote Prize for Outstanding New American Play, reveals universal themes of birth and death, loneliness and elation, disappointment and redemption. These characters are on a journey that takes them from the local library to outer space and points between.
Middletown. San Francisco premiere of award-winning playwright Will Eno’s absurdist take on “Our Town.” A newcomer to Middletown befriends a man whose secrets will disrupt everyone. Directed by Brian Katz. Custom Made Theatre, 533 Sutter Street, San Francisco.
Newly arrived in town, Mary Swanson (Cary Cronholm Rose, Top Girls) is trying to start a family, but her husband is nowhere to be found. While adjusting to her new life, she meets Middletonians of all sorts, but connects most of all with John Dodge (Fred Pitts, Eurydice), a quiet and compassionate man whose secrets will disrupt the peace and quiet of this average American town.
From the author of Broadway’s The Realistic Joneses (now playing at ACT) and Thom Paine (based on nothing) comes Middletown, Will Eno’s take on Our Town – which follows the lives of the inhabitants of a place called Middletown as they intersect in strange ways. Middletown runs March 24-April 23 at Custom Made Theatre, 533 Sutter Street, San Francisco, 94102.
This modern take on Our Town sets out on a journey -- to somewhere in the middle -- in search of the meaning of life. Middletown holds a microscope to American living.
At the heart of this sweet and disturbing exploration, Eno highlights our tender struggle for human connection and how we're all looking for a little meaning in this mystery we call life. Along the way, Middletown, the winner of the Horton Foote Prize for Outstanding New American Play, reveals universal themes of birth and death, loneliness and elation, disappointment and redemption. These characters are on a journey that takes them from the local library to outer space and points between.
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